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Originally Posted by ratinox
Because it's not Valve doing that. It's Bethesda. Arena is a DOS game, and the version Bethesda provided to Valve is wrapped in DOSBox for Windows which runs inside a Proton pressure vessel. .
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It may be Bethesda, but nothing is "wrapped". The conf files are regular dosbox conf files and the script in the .bat file works on WINE.
Trivial to edit a copy of the supplied arena(windowed).conf so that it works with Linux DosBox instead of the dosbox.exe in the main arena directory.
A joker here claimed the best fun of old games is editing obscure config files. Another suggested installing WSL in Win10 and Linux DosBox.
Possibly dosbox doesn't work well on ChromeOS and dosbox in Crostini might be better.
I read a suggestion that Google is removing the Playstore from ChromeOS (it's not on ChromeOS Flex). I'm wondering if it's worth having ChromeOS on the ChromeBook at all as many of the Android apps I want aren't available. You can backup the ChromeOS/ChromeBook FW and install native Linux only instead of the stupidity of Debian 12 customised to Crostini (Wayland), in a container, which is on a VM and any ext4 filesystem devices then can only be "shared" to Crostini via 9p filesystem mounts. Madness. Yet some USB devices do work direct (USB TV stick, USB Serial, USB MTP), but USB-BT and USB Audio, USB Video and USB MS don't.