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

Click Next


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

Click Next


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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