Linux - Sid Meier's Pirates! Guide

[corsair91]

Linux - Sid Meier's Pirates! Guide

booman, Feb 14, 2014.

http://www.gamersonlinux.com/forum/threads/sid-meiers-pirates-guide.553/


A step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Sid Meier's Pirates in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the retail Windows PC version of Sid Meier's Pirates running on Linux using Wine emulation. Other versions may require additional steps.

See link for further Info

EDIT:

In particular, Cleckout the Comments section on Page 3
The post by EndHigh, Aug 23, 2019

http://www.gamersonlinux.com/forum/threads/sid-meiers-pirates-guide.553/page-3

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These days you can just use Lutris and/or Proton (Proton via Steam) to install Windows games on Linux.

(https://lutris.net/games/sid-meiers-pirates/)

(https://www.protondb.com/app/3920)

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Thanks for posting this thread, corsair91. May it help anyone who needs it!

[corsair91]

winehq Test Results


Sid Meier's Pirates!

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2719



What works

Installs & runs.


Everything seems to work (given graphical limitations - see below).

Tested - main, audio, video, ship flag menus; cut scenes; sailing; ship combat; sword fighting; visiting town.


What does not

1) Unless "Disable shaders" is selected in the video settings, the game becomes unplayable due to graphical issues on the sailing screen (and I couldn't get to other screens because of them)

2) It's quite stuttery in places, presumably due to poor frame rates.

3) I needed to disable NUMLOCK on my keypad before it would accept keypad input (different behaviour to windows, which works fine with the "normal" setting of NUMLOCK enabled)

Workarounds

1) Disable shaders in video settings

2) N/A

3) Disable NUMLOCK


What was not tested

More than 15 mins of gameplay

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU: AMD
Driver: open source

[corsair91]

./play.it] Install Pirates! Gold on Linux

https://www.gog.com/forum/pirates_gold_plus/playit_install_pirates_gold_on_linux


vv221
Posted June 23, 2017

Hello fellow Linux gamers!

Here you’ll find scripts allowing you to build packages for Debian, Arch Linux and any derivative (Ubuntu, Manjaro, Linux Mint, etc.) from your GOG installers for Pirates! Gold.
You will then be able to easily install these packages with you favourite packages manager.


Download links and usage instructions can be found on the following page:

https://wiki.dotslashplay.it/en/games/pirates


We hope you’ll enjoy the ease-of-use provided by these scripts as much as I enjoy writing and tweaking them


Posted July 10, 2017

Update

Add support for Pirates! installer:
gog_pirates_2.0.0.8.sh (GOG)



Here you go for more supported games!

./play.it project!
List of supported games
https://wiki.dotslashplay.it/en/start

[corsair91]

GOG Pirates 1987 & Pirates Gold 1993 - Pirates Gold Plus Bundle,
includes Dosbox Emulator


DOSbox is also available for Linux

Mac OS X may no longer be supported as Catalina
removed 32-bit support


Dosbox Downloads

https://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1


Download DOSBox DOS Emulator

Looking for a different version, a frontend or a translation? Here's a full list of files:

DOSBox (specific versions)

Windows 0.74-3 Win32 installer
Fedora 0.74-3 rpm
Source 0.74-3 Source
Mac OS X 0.74-3 dmg (Universal)
Debian 0.74-3 deb
FreeBSD package 0.74-2 ports
RISC OS 0.74-2 zip
Gentoo Linux 0.74 portage
OS/2 0.74 exe (OS2)
Solaris 10 - sparc 0.73 pkg
BeOS 0.63 binary (x86)
Old dosbox versions 0.50-0.74-2 source + binary(x86)


Frontends

D-Fend Reloaded 0.1.1 Frontend for windows


DOSBox Tutorial

Basic Setup and Installation of DosBox
https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Basic_Setup_and_Installation_of_DosBox


DOSBoxFrontends
https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/DOSBoxFrontends

DOSBoxShortcuts
https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/DOSBoxShortcuts

DOSBox Manual
https://www.dosbox.com/DOSBoxManual.html

[corsair91]

protondb Sid Meier's Pirates!
https://www.protondb.com/app/3920


Proton Sid Meier's Pirates!
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/871


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games_and_Linux