Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95?
by woofie11 on Thursday September 10, 2020 @10:30PM
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I think WordPerfect 8 was where Corel rewrote it. It didn't work nearly as well. I vaguely recall they switched from native to some kind of compatibility layer (maybe Wine?) which just wasn't very good.
Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95?
by compsciphd on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @05:20AM
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for everyone that bitches about docker and ubuntu snaps, this is a perfect application of them
I wonder if libc5 is so old that it has problems with docker. But I remember loki games being statically linked to avoid problems with dependencies. You only needed like linux syscalls and X11 for them to work.
Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95?
by compsciphd on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @09:12AM
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i dont see why it would have an issue.
docker has no concept of the binaries that actually run, it just sets up namespaces, cgroups and a userspace. worse case scenario, you have to run the docker container as privileged, still no difference from running on host (at least with a properly constructed image, where the binaries wouldn't run as root)
Somebody has WordPerfect 8 binaries around.
It requires libc5 - the c library that was common before glibc became common at the end of the 90s. And then needs X libraries that are compiled against libc5.
Probably you could find an old Red Hat 5 or something and pull out those libraries to run on a recent kernel.