![]() I'm not judging others use of Galaxy, but to me it seems counter-intuitive to use Galaxy, which is meant as a straight and easy management for GOG's games, and you expect it to be more complex? What you suggest will actually make it more complex than it have to be (especially when it comes to DOS inside a Windows environment). Sanscript: What about the offline installers? Frankly, for just 72MB it's actually easier to just have it come with every game, for, you know, compartmentalization. I don't think it applies to any game that I own, and I own nearly all Sierras, at least. I have heard of GOG's habit of not including executables for games that use ScummVM, but this goes back many years - and I think it's only a handful of them. I find it actually does influence my gaming mood. Since the new update to GOG Galaxy, I've gotten quite fond of how it looks - I love how it uses original artwork for each game. That explains everything (both games use the same named executable, SCIV.EXE). exe's, taking away the option of running them under DOSBox. The other complication as mentioned is that for many GOG-bundled ScummVM games, GOG have unhelpfully decided to remove the game's original. My instructions were tested only for the offline installers (plus a load of other non-GOG retail discs games that aren't sold "digitally" anywhere and have never came bundled with DOSBox in the first place). ![]() I tried following your instructions from the link, but Galaxy doesn't allow me to add arguments to the executable in the executable box, and given the peculiar error when it started up the wrong game, I don't know what it wants from me.ĪB2012: Sorry, I don't use Galaxy. ![]() So what happens? I click play, and Conquest of Camelot loads. So I tried to use the executable from the folder within the other game instead, Conquest of Camelot. I thought maybe the issue was the Dosbox version, even though the one in the CB folder (which I had simply copied from a different Sierra game that comes with Dosbox) was the same version as the one on my C drive. So I changed the executable back to the folder within the CB folder, but did not change the argument back. Dosbox just opened and immediately closed. conf "d:\games\CB\nf" -conf "d:\games\CB\dosboxCB_nf" -noconsole -c "exit" So I changed the argument to the following: When I then tried to point the executable to the Dosbox folder on my C drive, and it didn't work, I first thought it was because the path needed fixing. conf ".\nf" -conf ".\dosboxCB_nf" -noconsole -c "exit" The original argument for Colonel's Bequest looked like this: conf files for each games as well, and it works perfectly. The new GOG Galaxy update allows me to configure alternative executables, which I have done. Both are actually installed with ScummVM, but I prefer Dosbox. I have the Sierra games The Colonel's Bequest and Conquest of Camelot. It actually doesn't, and I'll explain why with these two examples: conf files GOG have used using the -conf command line switch instead of pointing to the game's. But GOG's method of installation, as it is now, is a bit untidy.ĪB2012: It does work with DOSBox, you just have to be careful to point to whatever specific. Maybe it will stop this funny business if I deselect automatic updates. And then it won't let me play until I've verified it again, which invariably reinstalls ScummVM. It does seem like GOG Galaxy resets after a while, though, and greys out the play-button for me, even though I've made the new executable file the default (I can't edit File 1, for some reason - it would have been better if I could). Dosbox is only a 12 MB folder, however, so I can live with that. I'd do the same for the Dosbox games, but that doesn't seem to work for some reason. As it is, I am manually reconfiguring the executables in GOG Galaxy to point to my preferred install of ScummVM on my C drive, and reconfiguring the arguments to reflect the full path, instead of just ".\nameofinifile.ini". Wouldn't it be possible for GOG Galaxy to detect a ScummVM install somehow? Perhaps ask the user if and where ScummVM is installed. This especially matters on an old laptop which is filling up enough already. But when I have several dozens of games that use ScummVM, this adds up to several gigabytes of pure clutter. The ScummVM folder is 74MB, which is not a huge amount. ![]() Each game that uses ScummVM gets its own ScummVM folder when you install it.
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