Software compat for linux is nearly total and complete except for two REAL ANNOYING CATEGORIES:
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John Deere ass corpo ass software for interfacing with maker devices
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effing E-Sports and wannabe E-Sports (HUNT)
but all of my weird old crap works just fine HBU
I’m still trying to emulate windows 3.1 games
it was a sad day when Wine removed their old support for 16bit games. Wine used to run eg. Castle of the Winds just fine, though admittedly there was a very minor graphical glitch with tiling, but the game worked fine.
Now I’m back to just running win3.1 in dosbox for the game :P
Wouldn’t using DOSbox or something similar and installing win3.1 on top of that be easier? Or just go the whole distance and use something like PCemu.
Dosbox + Win3.x is an extreme pain in the ass. I have tried. As a result I’m just writing a Linux version of that old program.
I got Populous 3 running perfectly out of the box, when Windows doesn’t really manage it. It’s impressive.