Can you install thid 25 year old program? ( lemmy.ml )

_cnt0 , vor 7 Monaten

I actually had more success getting old windows games to run in modern linux with wine than in modern windows.

themoonisacheese , vor 7 Monaten

The saying "the most stable ABI on Linux is win32" says that's also true for Linux software unfortunately

sigmaklimgrindset , vor 7 Monaten

“Just run it in compatibility mode bro, it’s fine bro!!!”

My computer screen suddenly turns 640x480, flickers 5 times, then crashes because -checks notes- my graphics drivers are too new.

Yes this has actually happened to me. No I can’t remember with what game (I wanna say Deadly Premonition).

rmuk , vor 7 Monaten

MacOS: "The world came into existence fully formed ten years ago so it would be silly to even try running software older than that."

zerofk , vor 7 Monaten

10 years ago is giving Apple too much credit. They were using Intel processors then, ARM now. For now, you can still run Intel applications, but that won’t last much longer.

More importantly, a 10 year old application is likely to use Carbon instead of Cocoa. Unless it’s an extremely simple application (i.e. hello world), it is unlikely to run.

Then there’s the depreciation of resource forks, a new filesystem, tons and tons of extra security restrictions, etc.

affiliate , vor 7 Monaten

god forbid you ever want to run any 32 bit programs. you can’t even play the orange box games anymore