I tried playing Age of Wonders on Linux under Wine, worked out of the box without any problems.

Works for me:

Disciples 2 - Wine

The Incredible Machine Megapack - some on dosbox, some on Wine

Myst - Wine

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® - Wine, with a bit of tweaking

Heroes of Might and Magic® 2: Gold Edition - Dosbox

Heroes of Might and Magic® - Dosbox

Commandos Ammo Pack - Wine

Disciples 2 Gold - Wine

Gothic - Wine

Gothic 2 Gold Edition - Wine

Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus - Wine

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee - Wine

Fallout Tactics - Wine

ScummVM is native on many systems, and a whole bunch of GOG games use it, and therefore run on Linux.

The ones that I'm aware of are:

Simon the Sorceror
Simon the Sorceror 2
Lure of the Temptress
Teen Agent
Broken Sword 2
Beneath a Steel Sky
Gobliiins pack

For some of these, the GOG package itself makes use of ScummVM. I don't know if some of the later games use the original executables or not.

see: http://www.scummvm.org/compatibility/

Fullscreen or windowed?

Both - although it makes much more sense to have it set fullscreen, and set your virtual desktop to whatever window size you'd like to emulate the "window" function.

In the list it says Sanatarium runs with dosbox, but it should say Wine. Also, i didn't get it to start using the gog starter, but it runs fine when running the original exe.

Oh good, finally a confirmation of this. I tried the demo the other day, it worked fine under Wine, too. Very nice, could you share the technical details with us (kernel version, Wine version, what options in Wine except for emulating the desktop if any), since some people are unable to run it at all or at least not in fullscreen?


Outcast seems to work fine.

Games that work in the upcomming 1.2.0 scummvm stable:
King's Quest I, VI, V & VI
Space Quest I, III, IV & V

Just check http://scummvm.org/compatibility/ for the WIP version and http://scummvm.org/compatibility/1.1.0/ for the current stable version (which includes some games not mentioned above)

In a short while they should be all playable (I to VI).

They already work fine in DOSBox. So Linux compatibility is there already.

Very nice! Just a couple of things to add.


d2x-xl http://www.descent2.de/d2x.html

It's an advanced cross platform port of Descent 2 which works with Descent 1 too. It has a lot of new graphics and gameplay features, but it also has a nostalgia switch to allow classic Descent gameplay. Installation is a little complicated though.


gemRB http://gemrb.sourceforge.net/wiki/doku.php?id=start#gemrb

A cross platform implementation of Bioware's Infinity engine. It should support the baldur's gate and icewind dale series plus planescape: torment. It's still in beta stage and I didn't try it out, but it's an interesting project, it's alive, and I think it should be mentioned.

I appreciate the effort, but it's a bit hard to follow in here. And likely is going to get harder and harder as time goes by.

I'm not sure that I have a particular solution, but if anybody is able to do it, a wiki would probably be just the thing. Especially since that would make it a bit easier to include information about any necessary workarounds and links to software required to get things working.

You know things like the universal extractor for a lot of those dosbox games and such.

EDIT: An additional thought, perhaps a GoG mix of the ones which run under dosbox or wine would work conveniently, with an added note about how to get dosbox games for use under Linux.

I'm not sure I'm parsing this right - an note about getting games or an note about getting them to work? Since the second one games more sense in the context of this site, I'll assume it's the second option, even though it's just as trivial - getting games to work under DOSBox is the same on any platform. Wine, on the other hand...

Right, with Dosbox a generic how to extract and what to do with the confs would almost certainly suffice for all of them. Wine was more what I had in mind, as it can take some tweaking at times to get things to actually work.

Same goes for crossover games, sometimes it just works, usually you have to do some tweaking if it isn't supported.

Another World: 15th Anniversary Edition

GREAT game, it runs perfect on wine. See the reports on Wine appDB about it.


I played the game without problems

Actually all the infinity engine games should work using GemRB (http://gemrb.sourceforge.net/); scummvm support:
Simon the sorcerer (1 & 2)
Waxworks
The Feeble Files
Personal Nightmare
Gobliiins pack
Broken Sword 2
lure of the temptress
beneath a steel sky
King's quest (1,2,3,4,5,6)
Space Quest (1,2,3,4,5)
TeenAgent