I’ve been going through and installing a bunch of old games on Lutris that I’ve been nostalgic for and, I guess unsurprisingly, I couldn’t find an installer for a couple of pretty niche older games (in this case I wanted to install The Time Warp of Dr. Brain and The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain) both of which are basically abandonware at this point and not even available on GOG. I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to get it to work and I just can’t seem to do it.
Is there someone who would be willing to make an installer for these games? If this isn’t the right place to ask, is there a better place I can go for this request?
No, that’s a different game. There were a lot of Dr. Brain games in the series including the Island of Dr. Brain (which is available on Lutris via ScummVM). But the two that I mentioned aren’t available.
ScummVM doesn’t support these games. They’re a bit too modern for it. As for the W98 prefix, I actually tried it, but I couldn’t get it to work. Funnily enough, I could get the included Sierra Online setup to work properly but not the actual game.
Hmm, so far I haven’t had any such issues, but I never tried to use ScummVM directly.
Up to now, I’ve been doing well enough with DOSbox and Wine/PlayOnLinux, Steam and now Lutris in Linux.
I did undergo some arduous tinkering with older Windows Legacy DirectX games and Wine.
It basically consisted of trying different (even very old) Wine versions, starting Wine prefixes in debug mode, looking for any digestible hints on missing DLLs and then manually adding some, that seemed plausible enough.
So far, I’ve had success a few times
A few of the more frequently required libraries were gdiplus, directx, direct sound and similar, also installing specific DirectX legacy versions inside a prefix and/or ‘MS Redistributable C++’ versions were required sometimes.
