Arch Linux - News: Transition to the new WoW64 wine and wine-staging
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  • Malix@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    9·
    5 hours ago

    This update broke a game for me, namely “Castle of the Winds”, it’s a 16-bit windows 3.1 game. Not really a huge loss as I can just run it in win3.1 I have in dosbox - but it was pretty nice to have in modern resolution :D

    Haven’t done much searching for remedies, but kinda looks like 16-bit support is gone https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=306297

    Gotta wonder what’s the workaround, as many older games have 16-bit installers, even if the game was for eg. winxp or so.

    I guess I could always just have an older wine on the side, but… I dunno. I’d like to keep it simple. :/

    • Albbi@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      Oh holy shit, I haven’t thought about Castle of the Winds in decades! I gotta go play that right now.

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      5 hours ago

      You could try using pre-9.0 wine-ge-custom or proton-ge-custom. And I’m sure someone will put the legacy Wine on the AUR.

      • Malix@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        IIRC I have tried the game with proton(and/or -ge), it never worked on those.

        I’m probably just going to accept dosbox for the game (it also fixes some minor graphics issues with it). I’m mostly concerned about old game installers - but then again, gog/steam don’t have those installers anyway, so it’s only an issue if the user is adamant on using original install media or so.