Software as Application, can always find a replacement. (Well most of the time) But Software as Games, there is good chance that you will never find a replacement. They are their own unique Art. (Classical games is another story, such as chess, and those "public domain") In order words, doesn't matter how old a game might be. it will not get obsolesce. When it come to "PC" Games. Windows really did a good job on retro games. they simply wouldn't work. Getting 98s games running in windows 7 is mostly impossible. But here come WINE. WINE really open up a "window" to Retro Games. A lot of great title that no long work on Windows are now work on Linux and other Platform with WINE. In Fact, some of them run ever faster then Windows.... But Again... Funny thing happens. you would assume OLD 2D should one perfectly on Wine, and Newer 3D games would have a harder time. It turns out "it is not necessary" true. After years of using WINE to Play "PC" Games on Linux. I find that. A lot of very nice 3D games, even not so well known title would run great under WINE. But some OLDER well known title. especially for those from Black Isle Studios, like fallout, Planescape: torment, and etc.... Wouldn't work so well. Giving the fact, they are develop by the same company, it might be something there. But these games do deserve a good attention. Giving the fact, that they are known as one of the greatest game ever made. I do understand, how well it things run is not just about the graphic. but I just find these a bit surprising.
There's just more attention towards getting more modern games to work, as a lot more people play new games rather than the older ones. Who knows when some random function X that an old game requires may never have been implemented in Wine, and thus it wouldn't work. If you really want to see improvements in that department, keep testing out many different old games and report whatever you find that doesn't work (well).
Lot of the old 2d games with issues trace to this bug http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421 ioky its one of the earilest bugs in wine not closed yet. Work is still being done to attempt to close it. ioky Issue is lack of testers to report bugs and regressions on a lot of applications in a lot of cases. So if some more retro people start doing more testing wine developers will know more when some of those retro games have issues. Now of course some of those retro best of breed games people should consider redoing there engines.
ischou wrote:> Also bear in mind that Wine adds an ABI layer that implement Windows. Many of those old 2D games are tied to DOS, which is why DOSBox runs many of them -- and also why there is a potential "to-do" item to integrated DOSBox into Wine.That integration started with 1.3.12. You need to have DOSBox installed on your system for it to work. For the one app I tested, it worked quite well.
dimesio wrote:> > ischou wrote: > > Also bear in mind that Wine adds an ABI layer that implement Windows. Many of those old 2D games are tied to DOS, which is why DOSBox runs many of them -- and also why there is a potential "to-do" item to integrated DOSBox into Wine. > > That integration started with 1.3.12. You need to have DOSBox installed on your system for it to work. For the one app I tested, it worked quite well.DosBox installed where... and how does it find it? or is this Linux only at the moment?