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I'd been running GRT for some time on Linux, and after an operating system upgrade, it wouldn't work anymore.
The quickest and easiest way to get GRT working in Linux is to run it on a Windows VM in VirtualBox.
You can share the GRT data folder with the VM, so it is accessible directly.
I've got a Windows XP VM, running the Windows version of GRT. And a couple of other bits of Windows software that I use once in a while, for which there is no Linux equivalent.
Posted : 10/04/2026 10:22 am
I use wine to emulate the windows version of GRT and Quickload.
The VM method is just a lot less hassle.
Posted : 14/04/2026 11:38 pm
I've had great success with WINE in the past running windows only apps. Its a hell of a shame that GRT couldnt have been picked up by others on on Gordon's passing
Posted : 15/04/2026 12:42 am
Right after his unfortunate demise there were lots of people that wanted to convert it to an opensource project with community development, but the source-code was not available. It took quite a few months before someone could defeat the built in kill-switch so we could keep using it.
Gordon apparently wrote a lot of his own code in a non-standard way using outdated libraries and did not share it. Idea being that the actual nuts and bolts could not be changed in a way he did not approve of. From what I understand the heirs did not want his program to be released into the wild with some chance of it being sold. That would have resulted in a commercial project like QuickLoad. I suspect he wanted to keep GRT as some sort of closed-source freeware.
Posted : 15/04/2026 2:44 am