Most all the old ones can run under WINE, PlayOnLinux, and Crossover, or they have a modern, multi-platform game engine and hires textures. I'm getting my friend set up to play Quake using the Darkplaces engine for MS-Windows and with hi-res textures. As awesome as Quake seemed in 1996, it is even more awesome now. It is impressive that fans of these classic games have kept after them all these years. It seems that those games were just that good. Many are still available for purchase from vendors like GOG.com and Steam if you have misplaced your original CDs.
They used to innovate, but as they have grown larger, they are becoming less likely to innovate (think large cellphone screens). they prefer their users in a walled garden and not free to make too many choices. For many people, that's just fine.
There is a way to unpack the installer (but it's also possible to encrypt the installer contents, so YMMV).
From their WIKI: "7-zip Since version 9.34 [Jun 2014] it'll extract *beside the files of the setup* the compiled script code to a file named [NSIS].nsi"
Extraction worked for me. Now to create a bottle and see if it runs . . .
I'm using the current Codeweavers Crossover 16.2.0 to attempt an installation of Paint.NET just too look at the app. Using a 64-bit Linux OS and installing in a Windows7 64-bit environment (what Paint.NET recommends) and WINE recognizes the need to install.NET Framework 4.6 and accomplishes that, but the application fails to install. The app uses the NullSoft Installer, but I'm not aware of any Linux utility that will unpack a NullSoft archive so I could manually install it in the appropriate WINE bottle.
Same result with a 32-bit bottle. I don't own any Windows OS.
In the US of the 1950s, the GI Bill provided unheard of access to college and was instrumental in the growth of the middle class Through the early 1970s. "Going to college" became the mantra for success. Sixty years later, we have PhD.s selling coffee an participation in the skilled trades is looked down upon. Now that unions have less influence on entry to those trades, a college education seems less important to financial success in life . . . unless you like to server coffee.
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Wine isn't a good answer.
Crossover does a very good job of supporting Windows games using WINE. It does it better for many games than the newest version of Windows.
It's the only non-free Linux software that I have ever felt was worth paying for.
I live in VB. Where is the facility located?
As well as support Linux-specific BSODs? That's cool.
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EXTEND
EXTINGUISH
Almost back to a pre-Columbian era. And looks what happened to them. Stay safe, PR.
Isn't that interesting? #goforkenda
If they bring back the HTC One MAX, I'm all in favor of this. I loved that phone, just the right size for me.
When they are, it will also be the Year of the Linux Desktop! Woo-hoo!!
I see that Microsoft is quickly incorporating it's patented security model into Linux!
Now I itch all over . . .
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Next we'll be taking down statues of hoodie-clad white male coders.
I'm holding out for 16K . . .
Not News: Big, powerful corporation uses influence to remove criticism from its records.
News: Google re-adopts the motto "Don't Be Evil" and lives by it.
Shitty movies . . .
Will Google join the party?
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
Most all the old ones can run under WINE, PlayOnLinux, and Crossover, or they have a modern, multi-platform game engine and hires textures. I'm getting my friend set up to play Quake using the Darkplaces engine for MS-Windows and with hi-res textures. As awesome as Quake seemed in 1996, it is even more awesome now. It is impressive that fans of these classic games have kept after them all these years. It seems that those games were just that good. Many are still available for purchase from vendors like GOG.com and Steam if you have misplaced your original CDs.
Windows 7
Do we need this twice?
I have been a frequent flyer with them since Mandrake 5.1,
I installed it and it just worked, even the Kool Desktop Environment.
They used to innovate, but as they have grown larger, they are becoming less likely to innovate (think large cellphone screens). they prefer their users in a walled garden and not free to make too many choices. For many people, that's just fine.
There is a way to unpack the installer (but it's also possible to encrypt the installer contents, so YMMV).
From their WIKI: "7-zip Since version 9.34 [Jun 2014] it'll extract *beside the files of the setup* the compiled script code to a file named [NSIS].nsi"
Extraction worked for me. Now to create a bottle and see if it runs . . .
I'm using the current Codeweavers Crossover 16.2.0 to attempt an installation of Paint.NET just too look at the app. .NET Framework 4.6 and accomplishes that, but the application fails to install. The app uses the NullSoft Installer, but I'm not aware of any Linux utility that will unpack a NullSoft archive so I could manually install it in the appropriate WINE bottle.
Using a 64-bit Linux OS and installing in a Windows7 64-bit environment (what Paint.NET recommends) and WINE recognizes the need to install
Same result with a 32-bit bottle. I don't own any Windows OS.
This Slashdot discussion now seems to be plumbing the depths of the Devil's rectum to argue Clinton versus Trump.
WTF? What is wrong with you people?
In the US of the 1950s, the GI Bill provided unheard of access to college and was instrumental in the growth of the middle class Through the early 1970s. "Going to college" became the mantra for success. Sixty years later, we have PhD.s selling coffee an participation in the skilled trades is looked down upon. Now that unions have less influence on entry to those trades, a college education seems less important to financial success in life . . . unless you like to server coffee.