Adapting Windows games to run native Linux

[makson96]

At this point it is proof of concept, that requires further development.

It works like this:
In constants.py beside "IGNORE_GAME_IDS" there is also "ADAPTED_GAMES", which is the list of games that are adapted to nativly run on Linux. For each game, list contains info about its name, id and require. In case of Theme Hospital, the requirement is dosbox. If requirement is met, the game is listed with other native titles (no wine icon, etc.):

When "download" button is pressed, game is normally downloaded:

then innoextract (downloaded from web) is used to extract game data.
During installation, there is additional step "additional_configuration()", which will run custom script for each adapted game. Script will result in creating "minigalaxy-start.sh" which will be universal name for scripts to launch adapted games.
When you press "play" this script will run:

So what now?

• Switching between extracting Windows games by wine and innoextract requires improvements.
• Choosing between Linux, Windows and Adapted game version needs to be added to "Properties".
• Add unit tests.
• Add more games to this mechanic.

This is still early stage, so I am curious about your opinion. At this point it will be still easy to change some stuffs.

[makson96]

I have added ability to choose game platform from Properties:

Linux (native) is blocked because this game doesn't provide official support for Linux.
Windows (wine) is blocked because I don't have wine installed.

[Kzimir]

Hi Makson, how are you ?

It is possible to update this commit ?
I'm interested to try the installation of Windows version of a game when a Linux version is available.

Thanks,

[yoshimo]

In the case of Twopoint Hospital and an increasing number of other games we have the option to run a third party open source engine instead like https://github.com/corsixth/corsixth.