Brick-To-Face Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 Hi, I was a big X-Com player until I switched to Linux. I tried to use wine (WINdows Emulator) but all I get is "Can't CreateProcess" when I run UFO.exe and when I run UFO Defense.exe I get a black rectangle in the top-left corner. I think it's 320 x 200 pixels (the resolution for UFO) but nothing happens. So I deceded to look for something for linux, the only thing I found was UFO : Alien Invasion, awesome graphics, too good for my box. Anyone know of an alternative? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Blehm 98] Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 that's because xcom is dos, you might have to get a dos emulator and run it through your windows emulator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serge Posted October 10, 2005 Report Share Posted October 10, 2005 Original dos version of x-com runs fine in dosbox which is available for linux. Also you may try ufo2000, but that's multiplayer only right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyevan Posted August 18, 2007 Report Share Posted August 18, 2007 (edited) Hi, I was a big X-Com player until I switched to Linux. I tried to use wine (WINdows Emulator) but all I get is "Can't CreateProcess" when I run UFO.exe and when I run UFO Defense.exe I get a black rectangle in the top-left corner. I think it's 320 x 200 pixels (the resolution for UFO) but nothing happens. So I deceded to look for something for linux, the only thing I found was UFO : Alien Invasion, awesome graphics, too good for my box. Anyone know of an alternative?Wine Is Not an Emulator! </2 YEARS late> Now, onto the real reason for reviving this thread: Wine really doesn't work with it, at all. It breakzored my sound, AND X11! Well, I... aquired... the DOS version of UFO: Enemy Unknown (I had the CE, just not the DOS version!), and that seems like it'll work, once I restart so alsa can fix itself. But I don't have TFTD/DOS, and I kinda want to be able to play that, eventually, too. Is there any way I can get my hands on the DOS version? Edited August 18, 2007 by kyevan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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