Gabriel Knight - Sins of the Fathers

Nostalgia

So at work we started talking about our favourite point-and-click games and it started a blast of flashbacks to the past. One of my absolute favourites was Gabriel Knight series. They knew how to write game storylines back in the day. GK1 was release in 1993 and I wanted to play it real bad again. It seems that you can buy and play it even today. Here's how to do it in OS X:

Gabriel Knight on OS X
  1. Install Oracle VirtualBox
  2. Install XP from modern.ie
  3. Install Boxer
  4. Buy Gabriel Knight from Good Old Games
  5. Install Gabriel Knight to Windows
  6. Import Gabriel Knight to Boxer
  7. Play Gabriel Knight

Install Oracle VirtualBox

Download VirtualBox from virtualbox.org and install it.


Install XP from modern.ie

  1. Go to modern.ie and select "Mac" for "Testing OS"
  2. and "VirtualBox for Mac" for "Virtualization Platform". 
  3. Click on "Grab them all with cURL".
  4. Open terminal and copy paste and run the curl command
  5. After downloading add execute permissions to the sfx file and run it
  6. Open VirtualBox and select "File" > "Import Appliance..." Choose the .ova file that we got and hit "Continue" 
  7. and then "Import". After a short wait 
  8. we should now have Windows XP under VirtualBox


Install Boxer

  1. Download Boxer
  2. Unzip the downloaded zip
  3. To install drag Boxer to Applications


Buy Gabriel Knight from Good Old Games

Go to GOG website, purchase and download the game


Install Gabriel Knight to Windows

  1. First select the Windows instance we just installed and click "Settings" and then "Shared Folders"
  2. "Add Share" by clicking the small folder on the right with a plus sign on it and choose the folder you downloaded the game into
  3. Start the Windows instance
  4. The shared folder appears in MyComputer as E: labeled network drive
  5. Navigate into the directory and click on the setup_gabriel_knight_2.0.0.16.exe and click "Run"
  6. Accept the EULA and click "Install" (change the install directory if needed)
  7. After installation just click "Exit" and you're done


Import Gabriel Knight to Boxer

  1. Open Boxer and click on "Import a new game"
  2. Drag'n'drop the game folder we installed in Windows to the "Import a Game" window


Play Gabriel Knight

  1. Open Boxer and click "Browse your games" it will take you to the "DOS Games" directory in Finder.
  2. Ctrl-click on the game and click "Show Package Contents"
  3. Open "DOSBox Preferences.conf" and add "imgmount D C:/GK1.GOG -t iso" under [autoexec]
  4. Run the game by double clicking the game in DOS Games directory
  5. Click on sierra.exe and enjoy the wonderful Gabriel Knight - Sins of the Fathers