Just in case someone else is wondering, using Wine as simply as
wine ./The\ Crimson\ Diamond\ -\ Full\ Game.exe
worked without a hitch. It stores saves way deep in ~/.wine/ as expected.
I couldn't help but figuring out the minimalist native solution that I'd prefer for no logical reason.
This is what worked for the AGS 3.6.2.11 tarball, and probably every other version ever made:
- Unzip the download
- Unpack the tar in the same directory
- Symlink (or copy, but I'm doing minimalism) the .exe and audio.vox files into data/
I get an error, both with symlink and copy, that audio.vox is missing, yet the music is playing just fine. At least in the beginning; haven't really played yet.
PS.
Love the 1.6:1 aspect ratio! Hope that's throughout the whole game and not a Linux glitch I got :D