Boxtron

Boxtron

• (Project Page: Boxtron)
• (See Also: Boxtron Wiki, Luxtorpeda)

Boxtron is a Steam compatibility tool to run DOS games available on Steam through the native Linux release of DOSBox-Staging.

Enable Boxtron

TinkerGame UI

TinkerGame should automatically detect your Boxtron installation path and default to /usr/share/boxtron/run-dosbox as the Boxtron command.

However, you can check to make sure it is set correctly or point TinkerGame to a different installation by verifying the "Boxtron command" item in the Global Config points to your Boxtron installation. If it says (None) or you want to point it to a different installation, you can do so by clicking on the box and navigating to the Boxtron installation.

TinkerGame offers the ability to globally set Boxtron arguments. This should not be necessary, the default --wait-before-run should suffice, but if you have a specific option you want to set you can do so.

Configuration File

You can modify the values for these options in the Global Config with a text editor.

• To set the path to Boxtron, you can edit the value of BOXTRONCMD (e.g. BOXTRONCMD="/home/gaben/boxtron/run-dosbox").
• To set custom arguments to pass to Boxtron, you can edit the value of BOXTRONARGS. It's a good idea to always have --wait-before-run somewhere in your custom arguments to Boxtron.

Using Boxtron

To start a game with Boxtron, enable the "Boxtron" option in the Game Menu. This will run your game with Boxtron.

If there are several games you want Boxtron to be enabled for by default, you can create a Steam Collection with the name DOSBox and add your desired games to this collection. Any game in this collection started with TinkerGame will have Boxtron enabled by default.

It is also possible to enable Boxtron for your game by setting USEBOXTRON="1" in your Game Config using a text editor.