Take No Prisoners is a classic top-down dual-stick action shooter by Raven Software. Battle hostile factions in San Antoinio Texas in a post-apocalyptic near future. Solve puzzles, use stealth or agressive weapons to slay Robots, Aliens, Mercenaries and Faction Soldiers.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Take No Prisoners in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the retail version of Take No Prisoners. Other versions may require additional steps.
Tips & Specs:
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Mint 17.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.10
Wine: 1.8.4
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 1.8.4
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Downloading Gecko
Installed
Wine 1.8.4 is installed and you can close this window
PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
Click "Install a non-listed program"
Click Next
Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
Name the virtual drive: takenoprisoners
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 1.8.4
Click Next
Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 98
Click Apply
Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop size: 800x600
Click OK
PlayOnLinux Packages (DLL's, Components, Libraries)
Check the following:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
Note: All packages will automatically download and install
Installing Take No Prisoners
Select "Select another file"
Click Next
Click Browse
Navigate to the CD ROM
Select "setup.exe"
Click Open
Click Next again...
Click Next
Check "Full"
Click Next
Click Yes
Click Next
Red Ord Zone Client
Click NO
Click OK
Click Cancel
Click OK
Click OK again
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "tnp.exe"
Click Next
Name the shortcut: Take No Prisoners
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Select "Take No Prisoners"
Click Configure
General Tab
Wine version: 1.8.4
Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine
Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
Close Configure
Run Take No Prisoners
Select "Take No Prisoners"
Click Run
Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs
Click OK
Conclusion:
Once Take No Prisoners is set to Windows 98, it runs great. Unfortunately there is no high resolution support, so you will need to set your Linux Desktop to 800x600 or play it in a window.
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