luxtorpeda
Steam Play compatibility tool to run games using native Linux engines (by dreamer)
boxtron
Steam Play compatibility tool to run DOS games using native Linux DOSBox (by dreamer)
| luxtorpeda | boxtron | |
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| 20 | 27 | |
| 377 | 393 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 3.6 | |
| over 2 years ago | about 1 year ago | |
| Rust | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
luxtorpeda
Posts with mentions or reviews of luxtorpeda.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-06.
- what is the best way to play classic doom on the steam deck currently?
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Official Linux support for "The Force Engine" is coming! [Dark Forces reimplementation]
Someone already requested it 2 months ago on Luxtorpeda
- ecwolf (Wolfenstein 3D) flatpak
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Does the SD support Doom (1993) at all?
Check out Luxtorpedia. It'll run supported games with native Linux engine ports.
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Unofficial port of Half-Life 2 mod "Entropy : Zero 2" available
Can you tell the people in charge of Luxtorpeda about this? That'd be really helpful.
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My Ultimate Steam Deck guide after being able to use it for about a month
Luxtorpeda
- Elder Scrolls: Arena on Steam Deck
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Tip for Linux users: How to integrate OpenMW with a Steam installation of Morrowind
the way to get Steam to use OpenMW and other available open source engines is to set up luxtorpeda
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Where does Luxtorpeda install OpenMW?
I did find the install finally, but that's a good idea. Luxtorpeda is kind of an alternative to getting several Steam games running using native Linux engines, I think via Docker: https://github.com/dreamer/luxtorpeda
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I have Steam games that use Dosbox- how do I get them to run?
Give https://github.com/dreamer/luxtorpeda a try
boxtron
Posts with mentions or reviews of boxtron.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-23.
- Masters of orion 2 on Linux?
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Things to setup on a new Steam Deck?
It also allows you to install Boxtron, Luxtorpeda, and Roberta for some old school games, and then choose them in the launch options for Steam just as if they were Proton versions.
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Mixed Mode Media Mounting (Steam Deck/Arch Linux) DoxBox X
Boxtron is tool for automatically converting DOS games on Steam from using "old Windows version of DOSBox via Proton/Wine" to native Linux DOSBox - I specifically implemented there conversion of case sensitivity in .cue but also automatic rewriting of paths (because some game developers publish games on Steam without testing them at all). Right now it does not work unfortunately :( - when it'll be fixed I will post the update on this sub and /r/linux_gaming (and others as well probably).
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Help please! How do I start DOSBox-X (or Staging) with a specific conf file in Steam on Linux/SteamOS?
Yeah, that's the annoyance of using flatpak unfortunately :( The version of Boxtron from flatpak store is designed to work with Steam installed via flatpak - which is not the case on SteamOS. I created a bug report for myself to fix it: https://github.com/dreamer/boxtron/issues/53 - you can follow the progress there.
- My haul from the Autumn sale. Not bad for under $40
- Does this guarantee a true offline experience with no further logins required for single player games though? Like switch, ps5, Xbox? The deck is a portable system, so if internet is still required then the offline update didn’t truly fix the main problem. Does anyone have any information on this?
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My Ultimate Steam Deck guide after being able to use it for about a month
Boxtron
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Elder Scrolls: Arena on Steam Deck
I dont use this but have you tried taking a look at this wiki article: https://github.com/dreamer/boxtron/wiki/Configuration
- Dos games ? Duke Nukem 3-D
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I'm guessing there's ways around this?
For DOS games on Steam, there's also a Proton alternative called Boxtron that is basically DOSBox packaged to work as a Steam Play compatibility tool.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing luxtorpeda and boxtron you can also consider the following projects:
proton-ge-custom - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
ProtonUp-Qt - Install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda & more for Steam and Wine-GE & more for Lutris with this graphical user interface.
dosbox-staging - DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices.
DOOM - DOOM Open Source Release
roberta - Steam Play compatibility tool to run adventure games using native Linux ScummVM
packages - Package build scripts and support for luxtorpeda client
luxtorpeda - Steam Play compatibility tool to run games using native Linux engines
proton-usage - Lists Steam applications that have specified a Steam Play compatibility tool
hid-fanatecff - Driver to support FANATEC input devices, in particular ForceFeedback of various wheel-bases
mf-installcab - Installcab based Media Foundation workaround for Wine
dos-game - A Dockerfile for running Docker based DosBox games streamed to a browser client.