Note: use development version of steam-dos from master branch
The game does not load for a stupid reason: paths in .CUE file included with the game are supposed to be relative to the DOS directory (and that's why you are "supposed to" mount C drive and change directory to e.g. C:\ before invoking imgmount inside DOSBox), which would imply that those paths are case-insensitive.
In reality in DOSBox those paths are relative to DOS directory, but paths are case sensitive, as on Linux host.
There are 4 ways to fix/workaround this:
Improve .cue handling in SDL_Sound 1.2 (not even sure if this is possible at this point - does SDL 1.2 still receive feature updates or is it in hard maintenance mode?)
Improve .cue handling in relevant SDL2 library and port DOSBox to SDL2 (dosbox patches to use SDL2 are waiting for inclusion for yeaars… TODO link to discussion on Vogons forum)
Implement a fix in DOSBox (I expect it to be refused by upstream)
Introspect into .cue files and fix paths inside in steam-dos. This is the fastest option to implement, but maybe not the best one.
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Note: use development version of steam-dos from master branch
The game does not load for a stupid reason: paths in .CUE file included with the game are supposed to be relative to the DOS directory (and that's why you are "supposed to" mount C drive and change directory to e.g.
C:\before invokingimgmountinside DOSBox), which would imply that those paths are case-insensitive.In reality in DOSBox those paths are relative to DOS directory, but paths are case sensitive, as on Linux host.
There are 4 ways to fix/workaround this:
Not sure which path to pursue at this point.