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One of the strangest point 'n' click adventures of the '90s, [The Dark Eye], is getting a modern 'restoration' for Steam, making it easily playable for the first time this century (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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[–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months 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.

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    [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I loved this game. Super creepy & macabre. Have succesfully played it on a virtual machine.

    Burroughs reading annabel lee is... Wow.

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    [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Oh fuck yes. I love this game. The atmosphere this game creates is so unique, I've never found anything that came even close. I'll buy this instantly.

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