goggy

Tool to help with porting GOG game bundles to GNU/Linux. The example port is a DOS-Box macos port of Theme Hospital.

Overview

Use as plugin

Nothing particular to be done, ws will install and init goggy.

Manual setup

To setup goggy, tell it to setup via:

goggy setup

You may also specify a custom root directory via:

goggy setup -d /some/custom/root

It will prompt you for administrator rights, to be able to write to the /opt directory.

If you'd like to purge goggy from the system again, call:

goggy purge

To retain goggy's config files, use:

goggy purge -R

Example 'Theme Hospital'

Download the MacOS package file from the GOG website. At this time this would be theme_hospital_enUS_1_0_3_33062.pkg. Let's assume we stash the package at ${HOME}/Downloads, we can prepare it to be used with goggy like:

goggy install ${HOME}/Downloads/theme_hospital_enUS_1_0_3_33062.pkg

After unpacking, let's check for available games via:

goggy list

This should give you something like:

1207659026 "Theme Hospital"

Which is the name and ID of the package, as defined by the kind folks at GOG.

To start the game in single player mode, we may call:

goggy play 1207659026 single

To list all available game specific modes, check:

goggy play 1207659026 help

Acknowledgement

Thanks everybody at GOG for your incredible work of porting, preserving and re-publishing so many great games.