One of the strangest point 'n' click adventures of the '90s is getting a modern 'restoration' for Steam, making it easily playable for the first time this century
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The Dark Eye is based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, and features the voice work of William Burroughs.
  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    I used to think ancient games were hard to play, trying to build a retro box, failing, trying to run a Win 98 VM, failing, trying to install patches on Win 10, failing, etc. Then I tried installing them on Linux with Lutris, and everything worked.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      This was my exact experience too, with Bottles.

      For instance “Sims 1 is SO DIFFICULT to get running on modern Windows! (Complicated hacky guide)”

      …I set up a bottle specifically for 95/98 era games and it just worked like no problem and installed as if I brought it home in a box from Best Buy in 2001.

      Sometimes a minor setting tweak or something helped, but otherwise it’s CRAZY what stubborn games will run well on Linux now!

      And this is using Nvidia, too. Truly awesome times.