Some things I’ve tried over the past week or so:<\/p>\n
Getting Second Life<\/a> to work on Linux (compiling from source). Well, it worked in a very limited way, after a fashion. I didn’t get any sound (had to compile without FMod because v3.75 isn’t downloadable for 64-bit Linux). And there were some graphics artifacts too. Linden Labs says that the Linux client is alpha. I don’t think it’s even there yet. Anyway, since I don’t really play Second Life (if you don’t fancy gambling or cybersex, there’s nothing to do) I’m not bothered.<\/p>\n VMWare Player<\/a>. It’s nice. I like the concept a lot. And although it doesn’t give you any tools to create virtual machines, I soon discovered QEMU (for creating the disks with qemu-img) and EasyVMX<\/a>. But VMWare doesn’t work that well with FreeDOS<\/a>. Perhaps I’ll try breaking out the old MS-DOS 6.22 disks.<\/p>\n After some fiddling around with that, I gave up and went for DosBOX<\/a>. Which plays things (old games) very nicely. With sound, even! I have now set up Eye of the Beholder 1 & 2<\/em> and also Sam & Max Hit the Road<\/em> and Day of the Tentacle<\/em>. It’s all good. Now I just need to figure out a way to host those slightly younger games from the Win95\/98 period, some of which use early forms of 3D acceleration. Roll on VMWare supporting 3D stuff<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some things I’ve tried over the past week or so: Getting Second Life to work on Linux (compiling from source). Well, it worked in a very limited way, after a fashion. I didn’t get any sound (had to compile without FMod because v3.75 isn’t downloadable for 64-bit Linux). And there…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}