Re: A Windows/Linux Gaming Question

On Monday 29 November 2004 06:15 pm, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I want to get rid of my daughters' Windows computer and replace it with
> Linux. It is a Pentium III 500 MHz. However, they still like playing
> their Windows games - Oregon Trail and the like. Can I run games in some
> sort of Windows emulator on a Linux machine? Is a 500 MHz P III powerful
> enough to do this (emulate windows and play games)?

wine (http://www.winehq.org) could handle some of them. You could install
windows in a virtual machine provided by qemu
(http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/) but unless you have lots of RAM, this
will be very slow. Other solutions such as Win4Lin (http://netraverse.com/)
and VMWare (http://vmware.com) are probably more complete but then you are
talking money to purchase them and they also need lots of RAM. If they are
DOS games, try dosbox (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/) which is designed
specifically to support DOS games under Linux.

I suggest that a windows machine is not too hard to maintain IF it is not
connected to the internet. Just set it off to the side for games only, never
attaching to the internet. Maybe that is what you already do but other
solutions cost configuration time and/or money.

> I am really tired of keep this Windows machine going!

We have windows games here that the kids have not used for nearly a year. For
the most part, they don't miss them and Linux has plenty of other games to
keep them happy, for the limited time they are allowed to play electronic
games. They mostly use their electronic time on the Game Cube which is fine
with me since I don't want the TV much.

Alan
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