wi xp games on linux?

Lamilia

Lamilia

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Is there a legal way to make window xp only games work on linux? Couldn't you just find the folders or whatever in the windows folder and burn them on to a cd and boot up linux and drag them into something like a folder or something?
 
I very much doubt it. I would say a strong no. But of course I am often wrong. But I dont really see how it would be possbile as you would need to change to parts of the game to open certain files from different directories and then you got all the registory files and stuff. Its all weird and I barely understand it.
 
what if I learn some computer language and create my own OS then could I do it? It should be easy to make an OS some colledge kids made the first linux OS so I should be able to.
 
You would probably have to dedicate months or years to do it. Then afew months prioro to that learning a computer language. It is VERY VERY hard to. Your best bet would to be just buy windows. And the kid that made Linux was probably a computing genious and known that way of programming for years.
 
Well it probably still would not work anyway lol. And why dont you just buy Windows XP you can get a leagle copy from ebay for like under £20 last time I checked.
 
You could try installing the games under Wine and see if they will run, again via Wine. I've installed Quake 3, Warcraft III, Windows versions. I also installed other windows apps and had them running on Madrake Linux (now Mandriva). Even though I got Warcraft III to install (On Suse Linux) I did not get it to run without error. However I never tried over hard to correct the problem either.

Point is all you can do is try. People are succesfully installing windows apps all the time. There is other alternatives to "Wine", You just have to Google them.
 
Lamilia said:
cool. I knew someone made a program. Is it illegal?
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There are a few... No Wine is not illegal and is totally free, matter of fact if you have Linux installed you might have it on your system already. If not it might just need to be installed. You can find it available free to download off the internet in the flavors of .tar or .rpm packages (I think those extensions are correct). I'm not a Linux guru by any stretch of the imagination :). There are other options that might be better, I've not tried them as I believe they cost money.
 
Transgaming, go to Products->Linux, they have a software called Cedega, was earlier WineX if I remember correctly. It's not freeware but it has very nice list of games that it supports and it gets updated often, includes the "emulator" and software to install games like they should be installed. I know that Steam, HL2 and GTA San Andreas work with it.
 
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