WINE or Emulation: Winamp, 'Retro', and ScummVM
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Ruben Schade ☛ Running Winamp in Wine!
I was in a melancholic mood last night, that may or may not have been partly the result of reading dystopian news stories. So I went back to my childhood and tried running Winamp in Wine. It worked!
I did nothing exotic whatsoever. I had my old Winamp installer I’d downloaded onto a Zip disk all those year ago, and ran it: [...]
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Ruben Schade ☛ A personal library of retro VMs
I love virtual machines! They’re a computer, in my computer. They let me tinker, test, and build things, then blow them away and start from scratch. We can even run different architectures on our computers, albeit with a performance penalty. We can emulate an entire machine from scratch, or use hypervisors to expose the underlying virtualisation support of our host machine to make mini machines. My love of VMs is what got me my current job. VMs! They’re great!
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ScummVM ☛ The Dynamix duo of Willy Beamish and Heart of China are ready for testing
We are excited to announce the classic Dynamix adventure games The Adventures of Willy Beamish and Heart of China are now ready for testing in ScummVM!
As the titular Willy Beamish, you play a 9-year-old troublemaker from Frumpton, USA. All you want to do is play Nintari and hang out with your friends, but your parents keep giving you so many chores... and even when you get them done, larger and more sinister forces are at work in your small town. A kid can't get a break!