Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine

(astral-os.org)

28 points | by avaliosdev 1 hour ago

2 comments

  • vinc 10 minutes ago
    Impressive! I like the goal of making a hobby OS viable as a daily driver.

    I've been working on my own hobby OS for half a decade. It does a lot less, but it has helped me realize that we can remove much of the complexity of a generic mainstream OS while still meeting our personal computing needs. I know I'm just poorly reinventing something between DOS and Unix/Plan 9 in an extremely limited fashion, but it's absolutely perfect for experimentation!

  • spwa4 1 hour ago
    I wish people would start with a "rom format" for windows games. There's so many old games and no standardized way to run them.
    • giancarlostoro 48 minutes ago
      You mean ISOs? ;)
      • draginol 41 minutes ago
        I think he means where the DOS/config is all set up too. Sort of like a really small VM.
        • giancarlostoro 21 minutes ago
          It was a joke, because ISO is a file copy of a CD-ROM disc. ;)
    • trollbridge 1 hour ago
      ScummVM has effectively done this.