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OP here! Someone commented with how to make i386 work: https://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/607714.html?thread=831766... not just qemu-user, but telling it the magic numbers for binfmt to work I'll give it a spin when I get home this evening. ENCARTA 97 SHALL RIDE AGAIN, maybe
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42120938/exec-format-err... (second answer)
This can be very helpful in the future for playing games with strange 16-bit-mixed-with-32-bit installers that fail to run properly on modern Windows, even 32-bit versions. I hope WSL2 comes out soon. Now that installing wine in Linux on windows is possible, the next step becomes clear. We must compile and run cygwin on wine in Linux on Windows.
You can already do that with OTVDM: https://github.com/otya128/winevdm Using it not only any 16bit installer works, but also most 16bit applications. As an example you can play Exile by Spiderweb[2] on your Windows 64 PC. It even contains a .reg file that allows it to be installed system-wide so that you can run a 16bit .exe just by double clicking it in Explorer (or any other file manager). [1] https://github.com/ot…
It's a shame WSL will be replaced soon with WSL2, which is a mere virtual machine and not native support for Linux binaries.
Paraphrasing doctor Malcolm: "Your software developers were so preoccupied on whether they could, they didn't stop and ask if they should"
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This project is only completed when you can recursively keep doing this forever, without it ever breaking.
We know how it would look like! Here is a nice illustration: https://m.xkcd.com/1764/
https://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/1299034742.or.31168....
Does anyone know of a workaround?
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You can already do that with OTVDM: https://github.com/otya128/winevdm Using it not only any 16bit installer works, but also most 16bit applications. As an example you can play Exile by Spiderweb[2] on your Windows 64 PC. It even contains a .reg file that allows it to be installed system-wide so that you can run a 16bit .exe just by double clicking it in Explorer (or any other file manager). [1] https://github.com/ot…
Playing Exile 2 is exactly why I want to run 16 bit applications. I basically learned English from that game! I remember being frustrated being locked into the shareware version by Shareware Barriers, figuring out how to edit maps by using Norton Disk Edit on the game files, and digging new tunnels into the cave wall. I was about 12 and I still consider this my greatest hacking achievement...
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I'm pretty sure WSL2 is going to use a user mode kernel
IIRC the NT kernel can run multiple kernels-or-something side by side. It could probably be used to co-run Linux kind of like CoLinux does. IIRC also, MS can use the Windows HyperV infrastructure to run the Linux kernel too, like they do on Xbox One to segregate games "Exclusive" OS from apps "Shared" OS. In that sense it won't be user mode either like user-mode linux is. My bet is on the latter. https://en.wikipedia…
