GOG Linux games with Box64 (the Hammerwatch how-to)
Philip's four fixes for a GOG Linux installer on a CM4: unzip the .sh, run it through Box64, teach the launch script about aarch64, export TERM=xterm for Mono.
What it takes
- Software only
Difficulty 1 of 3 — easy.
Details
GOG's Linux installers are shell archives whose x86_64 binaries will not run on an ARM console. Philip's route: unzip the installer into /usr/games/<game> instead of executing it, build Box64 from source (he follows the pimylifeup guide), edit the game's Run script so the architecture test accepts aarch64 as well as x86_64, and add export TERM=xterm before the launch line to get past Mono's 'magic number is wrong: 542' error. With lighting, blur and shadows off, Hammerwatch ran well enough for two-player local co-op on controllers.
mikeschnier suggests PiKISS for an easier Box86/Box64 install on Bookworm; Philip found performance better on the factory image than on Bookworm. Some titles fail on audio libraries — Guybrush16bit's Thimbleweed Park crashed at launch.
Links
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ptitSeb's Box86/Box64 run the x86 Steam client and WINE on a CM4 or CM5 — old and light games only, Steam in Small Mode, plus a compatibility list.
Rex's ClockworkPi-RetroPie image (Pi-Gen, EmulationStation, RetroArch) is the working answer; the Debian install and gamepad threads fill in the rest.
Extract Balatro.love from the Steam install, patch globals.lua for Linux and run it with love — full speed on a CM4 with the performance governor.
Qazax ran Doom 3 at 1280 × 720 on maximum settings on an A-06 uConsole, installed through Pi-Apps with the gearbox in gear 6.
Run a Meshtastic node on the console itself: meshtasticd drives the AIO's SX1262 over SPI, with the graphical MUI, the web UI or the Contact TUI client on top.
On Rex's images a single apt install gives you SDR++ for the AIO's RTL-SDR or a USB dongle; his AIO package adds the sdrpp-brown fork.