Ability to play native Linux versions besides DOSBox

dreamer / boxtron

Steam Play compatibility tool to run DOS games using native Linux DOSBox

https://luxtorpeda.gitlab.io/

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Ability to play native Linux versions besides DOSBox #23

Closed dreamer closed 4 years ago

dreamer commented 5 years ago

Some games come as Linux native + dosbox "Classic" version, e.g. https://steamdb.info/app/225140/info/ We would like to maintain original Linux version running besides native dosbox.

There's no good way to address it directly in steam-dos (as static "from_os" field points to Windows), but there might be a workarounds; out of the top of my head I can think of two:

separate build that focuses on linux->linux
downloading from linux depots using same mechanism steam-cmd uses

dreamer commented 4 years ago

Closing, as both workarounds are too hacky; for the time being I don't plan on working on it.

If someone finds this feature request worthwhile, feel free to ask for reopening this issue, good suggestions how to handle it will be appreciated.