Nancy Drew: Sea of Darkness Tips

This Nancy Drew game plays very well on Linux using Crossover. 
In fact, I like playing it on Linux better than on Windows for several
reason that I will not go into now.

Installing the game is a little tricky because you will find that the
regular installer quits prematurely resulting in a failed install. 
Here is how to install the game successfully.  

For the record, I am using Xubuntu 14.04, 64 bit, and Crossover 16.02, the latest build.  Here we go.

1.  Start Crossover, Click on Bottle in the top menu, Select New
Bottle.  Name the Bottle "Nancy Drew", or whatever you like.  Leave it
the recommended Windows XP type.  Click on Create and wait for the
bottle to be created.

2.  Put your Nancy Drew program disk into your disk drive, but do not
do anything.  If anything pops up for you to do, cancel it.  Just put
the disk in the drive.

3.  In the left column of Crossover, highlight your new bottle, then
in the the top menu, click on Bottle, then on "Open C: Drive".  A file
manager program will open showing the contents of the Bottle in the main
window, and all your Linux drives in the left column. (At least that's
how mine looks.)

4.  Double click "Program Files", then RIGHT click the open white space and create a new folder called "Her Interactive"

5.  In the left column you need to find your Nancy Drew disk.  It may
have a simple name like SEA, depending on what ND game you are
installing.  It may have a CD icon next to it.  Anyway... RIGHT click on
the CD and open it in a new tab or new window.  That way, you will not
have a hard time locating the folder you created in the previous step. 
It will still be visible in the first window.

6.  Among other things, you should see a folder called "files", open
it. Now you should see a folder call "game".  Highlight it, then RIGHT
click and select COPY.  Nothing will seem to happen

7.  Now, open the previous window where you will see the folder that
you created in step 4.  "Her Interactive"  Highlight that folder, RIGHT
click and select "Paste into folder".  The game will be copied into that
folder and it may take a long time.  Just wait for it.  You should see a
progress bar.  (TIP - If you lost the folder, go to your Crossover
window, select Bottle and Open C: Drive, then proceed from there.)

8.  Open the "Her Interactive" folder and you should see the new
folder called "game", that you just pasted.  RIGHT click on it and
rename it to the actual name of the game.  In this case, "Sea of Darkness".

This step is actually optional, BUT if you have other Nancy Drew
games, you can install them all into the same bottle each time renaming
the "game" folder to the actual name of the game.  Close everything out
except for Crossover.

OK... now lets make an Icon for the game on the screen or in your Crossover menu.

1.  In the Crossover program, highlight your ND bottle in the left
column, then in the Right panel, double click "Run a Command".  A Box
will open

2.  Click on Browse to see the contents of Drive C:.  Click on
"Program files", then "Her Interactive", then the name of the game
(Sea of Darkness).  You should now see a list of folders and the .EXE
file for the game.
Highlight and open the .exe file.  You will be
returned to the original box but the path to the .exe file will now show
in the slot.  DO NOT RUN IT!!!

3.  Click on "Create Launcher", Select Start Menu, then click on "Create".
This puts an icon for the game into your Crossover Bottle menu.

4.  If you want an icon on your desktop, repeat step 3 and select desktop.

5.  CANCEL out of the small box.  Find the icon that you just made in
the crossover program or on your desktop and double click it to start
the game.

Piece of Cake!