Posted April 18, 2020
Today in src_prepare-overlay I've added early support for Fallout 1 from GOG. If your GOG account is entitled to this game and you're using Gentoo Linux, then perhaps you'd like to try.
Details:
- we have our own patched version of lgogdownloader that allows headless operation - if its developers decide to integrate my patch, we will drop our own ebuild for lgogdownloader and use the version from upstream, but it'll probably be in version 3.8, if at all
- to support non-x86 architecture, the game can rely on DOSBox and prepared config files
- all supplements to run Fallout 1 in DOSBox are already there
- x86 targets are advised to use Wine
- runtime backend is decided with USEflags
- I went as far as documenting the device parameter in fallout.cfg, that was fun :)
- functions specific to GOG are in gog.eclass to easily add support for more games
Have fun!
Details:
- we have our own patched version of lgogdownloader that allows headless operation - if its developers decide to integrate my patch, we will drop our own ebuild for lgogdownloader and use the version from upstream, but it'll probably be in version 3.8, if at all
- to support non-x86 architecture, the game can rely on DOSBox and prepared config files
- all supplements to run Fallout 1 in DOSBox are already there
- x86 targets are advised to use Wine
- runtime backend is decided with USEflags
- I went as far as documenting the device parameter in fallout.cfg, that was fun :)
- functions specific to GOG are in gog.eclass to easily add support for more games
Have fun!
