Worms United on DOSBox/Linux

[Akdor 1154]

Hmm.. haven't been here in a long while...

Anyway, has anyone here had any luck with running Worms United from DOSBox under Linux? I've had success with the exact same installation from Windows XP x64, but under linux, DOSBox 0.7.0 is giving me the choice function, then on skipping the FMVs (I'm not even game to try) is giving me a nice friendly blank screen. DOSBox is telling me that the blank screen is coming from WRMS, which is a start, but still isn't very helpful. Possibly of interest is the fact that after executing WRMS.exe, DOSBox changes its display of CPU cycles to, well, nothing. Using the hotkeys to lower and raise it also suddenly change to modifying the % (as opposed to inc/decrementing by 1000 cycles). I'm using Ubuntu (well, Kubuntu) 7.04 x86 with DOSBox from the community repo; and it really shouldn't matter, but I'm running fglrx 8.42 from ATI/AMD's packages.

So. Ideas? :)

[Darwood]

I think you have to mount the Worms CD. Have you tried that?

[franpa]

tried dosbox 0.7.2?

[Akdor 1154]

I think you have to mount the Worms CD. Have you tried that?

Yes, well, sort of: I've copied the CD into a CD directory inside where DOSBox was installed, and mounted that directory as the CD drive directly within DOSBox.

In the time between my post and the present day, I've switched over to Fedora x86_64 and have been too busy setting everything up to play much Worms, I'll try again now and see what results I get. :)

[robowurmz]

Try mounting the actual CD Drive, see if it works.

[Weird Dave]

I had a similar problem in Windows (Vista) with the very original Worms - all the videos would play, I could use the game setup screen, and it played the pre-match video. But then I got only a blank screen.

My problem was solved by NOT using the actual CD-ROM. I copied the CD to a folder on my hard disk, and mounted that as a CD in DOSBox. Now Worms works fine (except for in-game music). Will try Reinforcements next...