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65.1 - Windows Games and Programs PDF
65.1 - Windows Games and Programs PDF
65.1 - Windows Games and Programs PDF
Windows games
and programs
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Games
• There is a wide range of games for
Linux, both commercial and non-
commercial ones
• Some non-commercial products are of
a very high quality
• Many of them are available directly in
system repositories or via installators
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Humble Bundle
• From time to time, sets of Indie games are sold
Game clones
• Various popular games have their counterparts written by fans
– FreeCraft (Warcraft 1)
– FreeCiv (Civilization)
– FreeCol (Colonization)
• Some of them, for instance Simutrans, are very extended and are
much more than just copying ideas from original products
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Wine
• Unfortunately, most of popular software is prepared with Windows or
MacOS in mind
• The idea behind Wine is to allow the users to run software intended
for Windows on their Linux systems without modifying it
Wine (continued)
• Currently, Wine is a very advanced tool which enables starting many games
and applications
• Often these applications work just as well, or even quicker than on Windows
• The database available there includes a set of useful information pieces which
help run some of the more "fussy" applications
Winetricks
• It's a special script which enables the installation of additional libraries required by the Windows
applications
• The required system component is downloaded and installed semi-automatically on the basis of
commands issued by the user
– options are Windows components to be installed (e.g. corefonts, vcrun2005, vcrun2008, vcrun2010,
directx9 etc.)
• The required options for the given application are often present at WineHQ
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Winetricks (continued)
• Winetricks also enables us to install the chosen applications and games in a
dedicated environment configured especially for this application
• It automates the installation process and doesn't conflict with other installed
applications
– After launching winetricks, we should choose the right application from the menu
and subsequently choose the option responsible for removing the program
Playonlinux
• An alternative solution to Winetricks
• It's used to automate the process of installing games and applications for Windows
• Installation on Fedora takes place analogically to the installation of the Flash plugin
– On the page http://rpm.playonlinux.com/, available also from the main project website, we run a
link to the tool that configures the repository (PlayOnLinux_yum-3.3.rpm)
– If the launch doesn't succeed, the file should be saved and then started from the drive as any
other application
Playonlinux (continued)
• At the first launch, this tool configures the environment and
automatically gets the necessary libraries and fonts from the Internet