Multiple monitors with DOSBox games (via DOSBox Staging)

 

In case you're not familiar, DOSBox Staging is designed to address the headaches caused by DOSBox's decrepit code, most notably (for me, anyway) its refusal to accept more than one monitor. This is obviously brilliant and good, but unfortunately GOG games are not set up to use DOSBox Staging. Thankfully, it's pretty easy to do yourself. This post is meant for Linux users only, but I'm sure a Windows user could figure out a way themselves, with a bit of tinkering. In my case, I'm using Linux Mint with the Flatpak version of DOSBox Staging, and the commands I show will reflect that. Adjust according to your own setup. With that said, we can get started.

Playing Overwatch 2 On Linux

 

I'm not the best at making good choices, so I decided to give Overwatch another look seeing as the sequel just launched. And I remembered Overwatch 1 being pretty simple to run in Wine, so it shouldn't be an issue. Right?

Backup script

I've written a little shell script on my Linux Mint install to save me having to copy things into my Dropbox folder by hand. I'm posting it here more for my future self, but anyone else can use if it they like. I cannot stop you.

cp -p -r -u "directory to copy from"* "directory to copy to"

This script should check to see if the files in backup are out of date, and copy them over if they are. But I'm not a code wizard, I'm sure someone could do better.

Legends of Aranna in 2022

 

Had a bash getting Legends of Aranna working on my PC, using the original CDs since it is the only Dungeon Siege title without a digital release. In my case, I’m running Linux Mint, so I had to use Wine (lutris-fshack-7.1-x86_64) and set it as a 32-bit prefix. The biggest issue I ran into was a crash a start-up, which I solved by patching out the SmarteSECURE DRM.