[dllthomas]

I've been trying to get Obsidian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsidian_(1997_video_game)) to run under emulation, but so far it's been too choppy to be playable.

[butz]

How did you run it? WineHQ lists compatibility as "Gold", but report is three years old. Might be worth trying it out on latest Wine version.

[dllthomas]

I put the most effort into QEMU. I think I tried Wine briefly first, but don't recall what trouble I ran into.

[butz]

Had some luck with Windows version of Obsidian. Using Ubuntu 20.04, should work on other distributions too.

1. Install wine and timidity. I presume xephyr server is installed.

2. Insert CD and run setup.exe with wine. Install game to default location, install QuickTime when it asks.

3. In one terminal window run timidity midi server (if you want background music): `$ timidity -iA -B128,8 -Os`

4. In another terminal window start the game like this: `$ Xephyr :1 -ac -screen 640x480x16 & DISPLAY=:1 wine "C:\\Program Files\\Segasoft\\Obsidian\\Obsidian.exe"`

In case you don't have physical optical drive you can use CDEmu to mount disk images, but it has to be installed from additional repository and has a bit of complicated setup.

[chongli]

Obsidian has a Mac port. Have you tried running it under SheepShaver? You may have better luck there.

I have been playing a bunch of old Mac games on SheepShaver. Sometimes they just work better than the Windows versions under Wine.

[dllthomas]

> Have you tried running it under SheepShaver?

I've not. When I get back to it, that'll be on the list of things to try.

[matthewn]

I'm glad someone else remembers this forgotten gem. Every couple of years or so, I try to get Obsidian running again. No luck so far. :(

[dllthomas]

My email's on my profile. Shoot me an email and I'll let you know if/when I ever get it working well.