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dreamer / boxtron

Steam Play compatibility tool to run DOS games using native Linux DOSBox
https://luxtorpeda.gitlab.io/
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Add non steam game to use with boxtron #33

Open JoshuaPettus opened 4 years ago

JoshuaPettus commented 4 years ago

I already have my own collection of Dos Games. Of course to try it with boxtron-steam setup I would have to add a game as a non-steam game. What syntax do I use for the .desktop file so a game can be used with boxtron? my desktop files when attempting to load with boxtron just complain that a dosbox compatible game is not detected.

Thank-you!

dreamer commented 4 years ago

If your collection of DOS games comes from GOG, then you can use included script install-gog-game, which will install the game to ~/.local/games/ and create a working .desktop file.

However, if your collection does not come from GOG, I don't have a script for that yet - seems like this is a good opportunity to create one :)

In theory, writing a desktop file that has dosbox.exe <params> would be enough, BUT it's not - there are several bugs in Steam client, that make it difficult to generate working .desktop files.

I'm treating this issue as a feature request to write such a script :)

JoshuaPettus commented 4 years ago

Yes please! And thanks for the info