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It would be great if we could combine ReactOS with Good old Games to build a retro Windows games distribution. I could hand that out at LAN parties as USB boot
by maufl 4mo ago
It would be great if we could combine ReactOS with Good old Games to build a retro Windows games distribution. I could hand that out at LAN parties as USB boot stick.
- shevy-java 4mo agoAgreed. For this to work, though, I guess there needs to be: - a listing of all games that work well on ReactOS, similar to how WineHQ does. Or perhaps a specialized variant of ReactOS with that focus in mind. Do we have such a list? I assume many games also won't work perfectly well; see WineHQ, that also had tons of issues with some games.
- hilbert42 4mo ago"Or perhaps a specialized variant of ReactOS with that focus in mind." Trouble is there's never been enough interest in ReactOS to get it to the point where it's stable let alone warrant fancy extras. (After three decades of trying to clone the basics and failing is proof enough.) In short, developers see it as a dead end. Why there's so little interest I've never fully understood, but it's fact. If it were actually stable and usable as a basic operating system it could be used for lots of offline stuff but it's not—even at this point. If it were useable I'd readily adopt it to use offline (I've tried many times and failed). Another point, this lack of interest shows up on ReactOS's website; there's so little new news and info the site may as well be dead.
- spwa4 4mo agoI think a lot could be achieved by defining a "rom format" for windows games.
- dannyfritz07 4mo agoA Linux Distro that comes with Wine and Application shortcuts could probably achieve this. Sounds really cool actually. Retro LAN Party Distro.