Interesting the mix of possitive and negative responses.
For more of an explanation, here's what I ran into when I downloaded some of the Cellar ISOs, step by step.
1. The user must download and install DOSBox on their system. Then they must create the config.conf file.
2. Files must be unrarred. Just like in Windows, you have to have a utility to do this. Obtaining this utility is different for Linux than Windows.
3. While I had experience long ago with CloneCD, I've never seen unecm before. Some users may not know how to run a Windows program (unecm) in Linux. This required Wine.
4. Since there is no CloneCD for Linux, how to make the .img files accessible to the user? There is a utility available to Linux users called ccd2iso. But it's only available in source. How do you compile the source? What Linux compilers are required to compile? Some users may need a little help compiling the program.
5. How does a user mount an ISO image into Linux?
6. How does the user mount (in DOSBox) the mounted (in Linux) ISO image?
7. How can the process of starting a game be automated?
I didn't have any real trouble with any of this myself, but I can see how a Linux user who hasn't been using Linux long can get stuck.
The purpose is not to create yet another DOSBox tutorial, but to help Linux users.
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