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WINE or Emulation: Bottles 52.1 Released and Retro PC Gaming the Easy Way with DOSBox Pure Unleashed
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Linuxiac ☛ Bottles 52.1 Released With Playtime Tracking
Bottles 52.1, a Wine prefix manager for running backdoored Windows apps on Linux, adds playtime tracking support, script arguments, and resolves sandbox-related issues.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Retro PC Gaming the Easy Way with DOSBox Pure Unleashed
Retro gaming is part hobby and part historical preservation, and DOSBox Pure Unleashed is here to help keep those old games alive, despite our aging reflexes being incapable of beating Tomb Raider 2’s Venice level.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ New DirectX7 emulation tool brings more games to Steam Deck, SteamOS, and other GNU/Linux distros through Vulkan, with caveats
An independent developer has taken on the job of creating a spin-off version of DXVK that works with DirectX 7 games, bringing DX7 to GNU/Linux through emulation with Vulkan.
DirectX emulation is the way Linux gamers are running Windows-only games on Linux OSes, thanks to tools such as DXVK. But up until now, DXVK has only supported DirectX 8 and newer. That is now changing; an independent developer has taken up the work of creating their own DirectX 7-to-Vulkan emulation tool, dubbed D7VK (via Phoronix).
D7VK is a spin-off of DXVK, which uses DXVK's DirectX 9 emulation backend and Wine's DDRAW implementation (for Linux, specifically) to create a "minimal d3d7-on-d3d9" implementation. This makes D7VK a two-stage translation layer that translates DX7 calls to DX9 calls, then translates those DX9 calls to Vulkan.