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Announcement from Arch Linux about transitioning the Wine and Wine-staging packages to a pure WoW64 build (archlinux.org)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (6 children)

This update broke a game for me, namely "Castle of the Winds", it's a 16-bit windows 3.1 game. Not really a huge loss as I can just run it in win3.1 I have in dosbox - but it was pretty nice to have in modern resolution :D

Haven't done much searching for remedies, but kinda looks like 16-bit support is gone https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=306297

Gotta wonder what's the workaround, as many older games have 16-bit installers, even if the game was for eg. winxp or so.

I guess I could always just have an older wine on the side, but.. I dunno. I'd like to keep it simple. :/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Oh holy shit, I haven't thought about Castle of the Winds in decades! I gotta go play that right now.

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