[SOLVED] How to get WINE/W.I.N.E. to play 15 year old games

kevinbenko · 01-29-2021, 06:00 PM

Back when the WINE version was pre-V1, I had successfully played games such as Thief, Thief2, System Shock, and other such games.

A few weeks ago I tried to use WINE to play these "old {rectum}" games, to no avail.

Can these old game work on the recent version of WINE, or do I need to get the pre-V1 version of WINE, if there are readily even available anymore.

Just asking.

Thank you for your time, and have a good day!

jefro · 01-29-2021, 06:45 PM

Might be a way using dosbox.

https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/GAMES

However wine usually is backwards compatible assuming that you have the correct build.

It is possible that your modern system is 64bit.

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-insta...tu-linux-64bit

dugan · 01-29-2021, 06:56 PM

No reason to expect an older version of WINE to work better. If they don't "just work", then try creating a 32-bit prefix.

kevinbenko · 01-30-2021, 12:47 AM

CRAP..... 32-bit...
Well, that is probably the solution.
I will call this [SOLVED] and if it doesn't work, I will ask again..

Thank you, and have a good day!

dugan · 01-30-2021, 10:55 AM

You know what I actually meant, right?

Code:

WINEARCH=win32 winecfg /path/to/prefix # /path/to/prefix must not exist and will be created
WINEPREFIX=/path/to/prefix winetricks #as needed
WINEPREFIX=/path/to/prefix game.exe