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Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine (astral-os.org)
27 points by avaliosdev 1 hour ago
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Impressive! I like the goal of making a hobby OS viable as a daily driver.

I've been working on my own hobby OS for half a decade. It does a lot less, but it has helped me realize that we can remove much of the complexity of a generic mainstream OS while still meeting our personal computing needs. I know I'm just poorly reinventing something between DOS and Unix/Plan 9 in an extremely limited fashion, but it's absolutely perfect for experimentation!

I wish people would start with a "rom format" for windows games. There's so many old games and no standardized way to run them.
You mean ISOs? ;)
I think he means where the DOS/config is all set up too. Sort of like a really small VM.
It was a joke, because ISO is a file copy of a CD-ROM disc. ;)
ScummVM has effectively done this.