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Civilization III having black background in recent Linux packagings
Thank you for your suggestions, and apologies for not noticing your post for like seven months (I was kind of expecting the site to have email notifications; never checked if that's true).Quote:Originally Posted by iPenguin
Hi,
Have you tried PlayOnLinux?
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iPenguin
Yes, I know about the POL thing, only I've never managed to create a working POL launch script.
So, POL might be an answer - or in fact it might not, as I had to mess with the host system to have even that modest success I've reported.Posted 09-04-2020 at 03:21 PM by Yury_T 
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Civilization III having black background in recent Linux packagings
Hi,
Have you tried PlayOnLinux?
It has a lot of options for graphics, and can install things like d3d or directx. Some games can be played in either dos or windows environs, like homm2, which was a bust on wine/POL, but after a boatload of fighting I finally got game in dosbox 0.74, and got it working in dbgl 0.90 as well.
It seems like there is some kind of graphics solution needed for your game. I like that you can configure wine independently for each game, so if you need a particular windows version emulation it is easy access in POL.
I have 32/64-bit wine, 32 for games, 64 for irfanview or the occasional utility.
So maybe POL/wine may offer a solution, or dosbox/dbgl if the game can go dos mode.
Hope this helps, or least spawns some creative ideas,
iPenguinPosted 02-15-2020 at 07:40 PM by iPenguin
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