Re:Superb old engineering simulation games, now open source ...
by fifteenth on Saturday November 18, 2023 @01:34PM
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My sentiments exactly! It is a tribute to the wine developers that these 20 year old games run as well (or better) on linux and modern hardware than on the ancient PC's and MS-Windows versions they were designed for. One recommendation - with each game try wine-6 first (./wine_default.sh), if anything is not quite right use wine-7 (./wine_experimental.sh). That should be sufficient to run all games; use the oldest wine version that works. If there's still a problem go to winehq.org and try wine-8 (winehq-stable). (You can also run most of the included game exe's on Windows 10, emulating the appropriate old Windows version, but linux is more compatible overall)
Re:Superb old engineering simulation games, now open source ...
by fifteenth on Saturday November 18, 2023 @03:38PM
(#38324123)
Another recommendation concerning installation - be sure to check the Mastodon forum for this project: https://fosstodon.org/@esports_for_engineers/followers
After reading some of the other documents there, this would probably be a better description of what this package is about:
https://github.com/sim-museum/esports-for-engineers/blob/mas...
I also found these ones helpful in understanding what is going on here: basicWalkthrough.pdf, runThisScriptFirst.sh, and metaLearning.txt
I didn't try it yet, I would need some disk space first. But fascinating ideas to play with!