- Abandonware games linux install#
- Abandonware games linux 64 Bit#
- Abandonware games linux 32 bit#
- Abandonware games linux windows#
Abandonware games linux 32 bit#
That's it, that's your 32 bit fake drive set up. Do each of these components one at a time or Winetricks may crash.
Having many versions of the same thing stops the whole system from working.įor our default fake drive that will run most of our games use the following setup.
Abandonware games linux install#
We need to carefully select the components that suit the era of the games we want to play and install only those, no others. Wine will let you install all of them simultaneously, which will not work.
Abandonware games linux windows#
This shows us a massive list of available Windows components but here is where you need to be careful. Once again Winetricks will throw lots of little error messages at you but just ignore them and keep clicking OK.Įventually we get returned to the above screen, this time we want to select "Install a Windows DLL or component" and hit OK. So click OK and in the next screen choose those two and hit OK. We want to install the Corefonts and Tahoma. We need to install some Windows fonts first, that's the single biggest thing that stops old Windows games from running. If you can't find it in your program menu simply open a terminal and type in "winetricks" (without the quotes) and hit Enter.
Now we need to install the appropriate Windows components in to that fake drive. If your typing is as dodgy as mine you can also use the mouse to copy and paste the following command in to the terminal, then hit the Enter key on your keyboard: WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine winecfg We need to open a Terminal and type a command in to force Wine to create a 32 bit drive as the default. This won't run most of the old games we want so if it exists already we need to remove it.
Abandonware games linux 64 Bit#
If one is there either delete it or rename it.īy default Wine creates it's default fake drive as a modern 64 bit drive. Check to make sure there isn't already one there. You need to enable Show Hidden Files in your file browser in order to see it. Any file name or folder name that starts with a dot is a Hidden File. Wine makes a default fake drive (Prefix) called. Added bonus here - your games run far better under Linux than they ever did in Windows due to Linux's more efficient memory management. That's probably what makes most of us want to use Linux for the first time, to be able to play our old favourites that no longer play under Windows. By default all Windows games and programs will get installed in this fake drive unless you type commands in to a terminal to tell it to behave differently. This is probably the fake drive that you will use the most. We're going to make the default fake drive a 32 bit drive that will run most games from before 2012. What makes all the difference is what versions of DirectX, DotNet, VbRun, etc get loaded in to them. So you can have one for Win98 games, one for WinXP games, one for Win7 games, etc. Wine can create as many of these fake drives, these Prefixes, as you like. That's the first bit of confusion out of the way.
It's probably relevant in Geek Speak but meaningless to most humans. I have no idea why but for some reason these fake hard drives are called Wine Prefixes. Wine creates fake Windows drives that your games and other programs get installed into. You need the 64 bit Wine for newer games.Īnd you need to install a little add on program called Winetricks, also in the repositories. Most of the older games that no longer run properly under newer Windows systems require a 32 bit operating system and so we'll create one for them. You want both the 64 bit and 32 bit versions. Here I'll try to simplify the process for you.įirst of all you need to install Wine from your Linux distribution's repositories. There's a wealth of information available at but the trouble is that for a new user there's too much information and it all gets a bit confusing. It works really well if you can set it up correctly, which can be confusing at first. It's a compatibility layer that converts Windows system commands in to Linux compatible system commands. Wine and Winetricksįor this we use Wine (it's not an emulator). This guide will help you to set up Wine with Winetricks. Linux users can use Wine to emulate old Windows computers.