Found a port of a game I like and wanted to check it out but it's Windows 98 and I know Windows 10 has shitty compatibility options that never work. Really don't want to go about setting up a virtual machine if I can get away with it.
It's a longshot, but you can try running WINE in WSL. While WINE isn't perfect, it tends to have better backwards-compatibility than the built-in Windows compatibility feature. I have never tried using WINE on Windows before lmao. While this would technically involve running a Windows compatibility layer inside of a Linux compatability layer on Windows, there technically are no virtual machines involved
.I second this, but it is really funny that the translator is more fluent than the native speaker. I love being able to run Windows binaries without downloading all the VC redistributables directX nonsense from a decade ago and WINE allows one to do this especially on GNU/Linux.
Just to note that there will actually be a VM involved. WSL1 was a compatibility layer more similar to Wine, but it didn't have the best compatibility cause it didn't have all system calls etc, including notably here missing multilib support. WSL2 is just a VM using Hyper-V and uses a full real Linux kernel, and is necessary here to actually run 32-bit binaries
get a 25 year old PC and install windows 98 on the metal
Depends what it is? A lot of Win98 games can be run in modern windows. Some have patches n stuff.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Wizardry:_Llylgamyn_Saga
Here's the pcgamingwiki article on it. It's got a translation patch so I'm wondering if that updates compatibility with win 10. I'll have to try this out tomorrow.
Oh shit a fucking 95/98 game.Wife says it runs fine, but she prefers the Playstation version lol. It's also on Super Famicom. Should work okay.
Oh damn your wife is a wizardry head? That's cool! Yeah I figure I'd just play the PSX version if this failed but I wanted some midi music goodness.
Oh shit nice, if you're not using Coolsoft Midi for that ya should be
She's into it tho yaw.Coolsoft Midi
This is sick, I was thinking about playing the OG releases of Final Fantasy VII and VIII for PC with the midi tracks and I will use this. Tell your wife she's cool, Wizardry really doesn't have fans in the west anymore, it's all JP otaku into it still.
Will do
Yeah the rights kerfuffle is alarming, they've really bungled the Wizardy series in the anglosphere, like now and then you'd get a Tales of the Forsaken Land come out and get some goodwill, but then they wouldn't promote it or follow up. Sad tbh, big guy series.
lol, I get it, I get the joke; wizardry: lil' gamin'; I like it, it's very clever
What's so hard about setting up a VM? And have you tried to run it with win10 compat layers?
Edit: If you can't find an iso, I think massgrave.dev has them.
why? it's easy to set up a vm. your cpu and motherboard definitely already support it.
windows 10 has it built in already i'm pretty sure, you just gotta enable it in the uhh... add/remove windows features dialog.
e: i have a couple of little computers for running old stuff on bare metal. that's always an option. any of the now insanely cheap 32 bit netbooks will be more than enough.
windows 10 has it built in already i'm pretty sure, you just gotta enable it in the uhh... add/remove windows features dialog.
Have a link on how to do this?
I have not checked this link, it was just first in search
The windows vm host is called “hyper-v” if you want to look up running games under it.
Cool I might be able to boot up windows xp with this, thanks.
I’m running qemu for local vms, so I can’t be too much help, but holler if you have problems. That was my local vm solution for years and it works pretty good.
Thanks I actually got it to run native on 10, cheers!
Maybe an emulator (different from a VM) like DOSBox-X? https://dosbox-x.com/
