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Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine

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Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine
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A few months ago, I posted about Astral, a hobby OS I have been working on over the years, running Minecraft . Since then, others have gotten modern versions of Minecraft to run as well as Factorio (using a glibc compatible libc). However, while these games are made or packaged in a way that makes it easier to get them to run under a new OS, most games are not. A lot of games are closed source and compiled for Windows, which makes something like Wine a necessity for playing them.

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