Old, neat, and free (of charge)

[techieMoe]

The Elder Scrolls

Bethesda has released two old games in the Elder Scrolls Series. They run in DosBox, so in theory they'll run in Linux. I've had to do some major tinkering to get both of them running, but they do run... after a fashion.

[chigurh]

I haven't tried either on Linux, but I did try Daggerfall on Windows XP and was wondering when they would release Arena, if they were planning on it.

[chigurh]

Also, regarding the post where I said I've learned more about Gentoo than Linux using Gentoo, the more I thought about it I figured I should've mentioned that I haven't been experimenting with it for very long, and haven't kept my installation for long, either. It is a very good distribution and very good for learning. Just time consuming ... I'm going to install it right now and stick with it this time. I just sort of rushed into saying it because I've been getting a little frustrated, but I've learned a lot so far.

[Tsarevich]

If anyone could guarantee if they work with Linux, I would dowload it, I like old games.

[Freston]

Hey, cool


techieMoe, if I may ask I've tried to install Daggerfall, which worked. Inside dosbox I've mounted the DFCD directory as where it a CD-ROM on D: per installation instructions

mount d /path/to/DFCD -t cdrom -label Daggerfall

And this works, I can see the 'CD-ROM' on D:\ but whenever I run DAGGER.EXE it complains about not finding the CD-ROM? How do you do this?


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Apropos, after fiddling with dosbox for a while, I found myself typing `dir` in bash

[techieMoe]

Hey, cool


techieMoe, if I may ask I've tried to install Daggerfall, which worked. Inside dosbox I've mounted the DFCD directory as where it a CD-ROM on D: per installation instructions

mount d /path/to/DFCD -t cdrom -label Daggerfall

And this works, I can see the 'CD-ROM' on D:\ but whenever I run DAGGER.EXE it complains about not finding the CD-ROM? How do you do this?


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Apropos, after fiddling with dosbox for a while, I found myself typing `dir` in bash

Yes, I had this same problem. I followed the suggestions of this PDF from Bethesda, with a minor change.

http://static.bethsoft.com/downloads...stallation.pdf

I put all those last few steps into a BAT file (or shell script if you prefer) rather than having to do them all over each time.