Another option of running Rebellion on non-Windows systems is using virtual machines such as qemu, VMware or VirtualBox. This guide will focus on the latter due to it's user-friendliness, good performance and wide range of supported features.
Pros and cons
Almost everything works including tactical battles and skipping C3P0's monologue. However fullscreen mode doesn't work as expected, sot it's better to play the game in window (start the game with -w parameter).
Main disadvantage of this method is that it requires you to install the whole OS to the virtual machine, so it might take much more space than anticipated (on the other hand, you can use this virtual OS to run other old games). As an alternative, you can consider using the Wine emulator to run Rebellion.
Download and install VirtualBox to your computer.
Use the official site (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads) to get the binary for your OS (and distribution). VirtualBox offers two versions for download - Open Source Edition (OSE) and binaries licensed under the Personal Evaluation License (PUEL), which allows for personal and education use or evaluation, and offer some additional features over the OSE, so choose the binary version.
Configure Virtual Machine
First you need to create a new virtual machine. VB's user interface is quite easy to understand, so just follow the wizards and everything should be fine. VB works best with Windows XP, so choose that as your intended guest OS. You also need a virtual disk for Rebellion, so create one. Dynamically expanding image is a good choice (doesn't take more space on your real disk than necessary), just keep in mind that it cannot grow beyond the limit you set during it's creation. So create a disk, that can contain both Windows XP and Rebellion.
Install OS and Rebellion
When you browse through the settings page for your VM, you can notice that it allows you to mount your real cd drive (or ISO image) as a virtual cdrom, neat! So dig out your Windows XP installation disk and mount it as virtual cd drive.
For Linux users:
Before starting the VM, make sure VitualBox kernel module is loaded. You can do this by typing 'lsmod | grep vboxdrv' into the console. If it is not present, load it by typing 'modprobe vboxdrv' into the console as superuser.
Your VM should boot now from the installation CD. Get some coffee and follow the instructions. Once you have Windows installed mount Rebellion CD into your virtual drive and install Rebellion.
And that's it. You can now run Rebellion as if you were in Windows (actually you are).
It is also recommended to install 'user additions' (containing windows drivers and such) for better interoperability of VM and the emulator.
For more information you can refer to the user manual, which is available on the official site.
External links
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ - Qemu
http://www.vmware.com/ - VMware
http://www.virtualbox.org/ - VirtualBox
