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17:21 < aestetix> ok so
17:21 < aestetix> is there any way to run older games in virtualbox with a linux host?
17:29 <@Dagmar> Yes.
17:30 <@Dagmar> The fun part is knowing what arcane rituals were required to get the game running while it was still new.
17:30 <@Dagmar> For much of what predates DirectX it amounts to DOS with a decent VESA driver
17:31 <@Dagmar> Telling VirtualBox to emulate a VESA-capable card is the easy part
17:51 < xray> You can also run a lot of older games under wine
17:51 < xray> looking for sites I bookmarked with information that makes it really easy (comparatively)
17:52 < xray> https://appdb.winehq.org/
17:52 < PigBot> Title: WineHQ - Wine Application Database (at appdb.winehq.org) http://tinyurl.com/n3dx326
17:52 < xray> This site is useful but not the one I'm looking for
17:53 < xray> This is the one https://www.playonlinux.com/en/
17:53 < PigBot> Title: Home - PlayOnLinux - Run your Windows applications on Linux easily! (at www.playonlinux.com) http://tinyurl.com/lzgh53m
17:54 < xray> Nice article on Windows games and apps on Linux
17:54 < xray> http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/run-windows-apps-games-linux-wine/
17:54 < PigBot> Title: How to Run Windows Apps & Games with Linux Wine (at www.makeuseof.com) http://tinyurl.com/nznnnz5
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19:14 < aestetix> xray: yeah wine has been more useful than virtualbox
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19:44 < K`Tetch> Ecuadore election is tight - Assange must be bricking it
19:48 < _NSAKEY> aestetix: How old is old? If it's a DOS game, you might want to look at dosbox.
19:54 < xray> I've used dosbox on Windos 7 to run Descent
19:54 < xray> Worked fine
19:59 < K`Tetch> I used itt o play 'a final unity', which was the first PC game I ever got, when i moved from RiscOS+Amigas to PC in 95
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20:28 < aestetix> old = 2004
20:28 < aestetix> so honestly not that old
20:31 < _NSAKEY> Your best bet is going to be to run it on hardware from that time period, if you can't find it on something like GOG.
20:35 < aestetix> ugh
20:41 < _NSAKEY> Is the Windows compatibility mode not an option?
20:42 < aestetix> I'll try it in wine
20:42 < _NSAKEY> Just be glad you're not trying to perfectly play some old DOS game that requires a computer with a specific clock speed and a Roland LAPC-I.
20:42 < aestetix> virtualbox has not been helpful
20:43 < _NSAKEY> You could fake your way through the clock speed issue with dosbox, but not the Roland.
20:45 < _NSAKEY> Well, you could get sound, but it wouldn't be just "right" or whatever.
20:54 < aestetix> ok so
20:54 < aestetix> sigh
20:54 < aestetix> I've been splitting internet time between hnn and reddit
20:54 < aestetix> hnn is now liberal wankers, and reddit is a bunch of teenagers
20:54 < aestetix> I feel like we have lost the internet
21:08 < _NSAKEY> What subreddits are you frequenting?
21:13 < aestetix> none, really
21:13 < aestetix> maybe that's my issue
21:17 < _NSAKEY> I'm a fan of /r/homelab, /r/sysadmin, and /r/networking.
21:18 < _NSAKEY> /r/JUSTNOMIL is a fun one, if you're into cringing and laughing at the same time.
21:19 < dfused> theres one like nononoyes or something liek that
21:34 < aestetix> ok
21:34 < aestetix> I got sound working in doom 3 in wine
21:34 < aestetix> but no video
21:36  * aestetix tries again
21:36 < aestetix> it's ironic that wine has better support than virtualbox
21:36 < _NSAKEY> VirtualBox is... Weird.
21:37 < _NSAKEY> I decided, for fun, to run Slackware 1.01. Everything works except networking. Innotek wrote a PE2000 driver, but Sun commented it out.
21:37 < aestetix> lol
21:37 < _NSAKEY> It's probably still in the codebase, still commented out, to this day.
21:37 < _NSAKEY> But it was commented out circa 2006/2007, so good luck with that.
21:38 < _NSAKEY> I was wanting to throw people a curveball in netkoth, and 1993-era Slackware seemed like a good way to do that.
21:38 < _NSAKEY> Even had plans of introducing some Morris worm vulns.
21:40 < _NSAKEY> I need to try to get that VM working on my current setup, since pe2k is allegedly supported.
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