Comment on How to play old CD-ROM games on a modern Windows PC
duckz@mastodon.gamedev.place 1 day ago
@noumenon it depends on how old! Are you talking Windows 95 old or Does old? Either way, step 1 I suggest is to start from Linux. Step 2 depends on your answer to the above :)
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Its not exactly easy on linux either, unless you are lucky to find a lutris script specifically for the CD install.
at least in my experience.
duckz@mastodon.gamedev.place 1 day ago
@A_Random_Idiot well for example Alpha Centauri and even Civ 2 were really easy for me. I used wine without any wrappers, I simply set an older Windows compatibility version in winecfg. StarCraft also worked easily though I wasn't able to set it to full screen properly on Wayland and had to re-login into Xorg for it. Let's see if OP provides us with more details
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
last time I tried it was Simcity 4, and I couldnt get it to install right.
But I’m not an IT/SysAdmin professional. I’m just a random idiot, so my capabilities with linux… while improving over the years, are still far from useful in most circumstances.
Zoot@reddthat.com 17 hours ago
Bottles, Lutris, Heroicgameslauncher, Steam. Between those 4 you should be able to get atleast one of them to run an exe to install a game. I think Lutris like you said actually has a “Run install.exe” option if you can point it to the right spots.
Persinally im just a dummy myself and flail around in Linux until it works, I’ve found its much easier though if I can skip the install process and just point one of the above 4 directly at the games folder.