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i would like to play my computer games on a computer running Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic). I finally got rid of microsoft windows xp and instead now have a linux based system. About the only thing I still need to get working is my computer games. I have a large number of games that I would very much like to play. I read somewhere about a software that would allow me to run these games on linux instead of windows xp but I can't find it now that I'm ready to work on this.

Can anyone help me with this?

descriptionSolvedRe: windows games on linux ubuntu 9.10 (karmic)

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Hello I am pleased to report that I have found a way to run windows software on linux. The software is called Wine and it is free to download and use. It seems to work pretty good so far.

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Ok but be aware that it will run your programs much slower and may have certain risks...

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It Will Possible Run your computer slower because you are Running Games

~Acid

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yes but it will run slower anyway because it is using an emulator. No matter what he run it will run slower. This same effect occurs when using DOSBOX , the emulator for old dos programs which simply dont run these days. Go here to find out more if you like : http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Main_Page

The best thing about dos games is that most of them are now free (legally) since their developers have abandoned the software and do not support it anymore.

I am sure that this effect occurs with other emulators since dosbox is surprisingly slow (try carmagedon and get something like 10 fps using a pentium 4 processor like me...)

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Thats True


~Acid

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