Keeping old linux games running?

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  • apulse

    PulseAudio emulation for ALSA

  • When launching the binary set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the oldlibs directory, e.g. LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/badsector/oldlibs. Some very old games may also need older versions of C++ library, you can find those in some older distros' "compat" packages, e.g. this one from SuSE 9.1 will contain most files you'll need - do not install the package, just extract the needed files. A few games may need convincing to use these files, use LD_PRELOAD for that. In addition some games may use OSS instead of ALSA so you'll need a wrapper. An OSS-to-PulseAudio wrapper is often available and you can preload it either with padsp (which will only work with the native version though, so no 32bit apps in 64bit linux) or doing it manually with LD_PRELOAD (which is basically what padsp does). There should be OSS support module for plain ALSA too if you do not have/want PulseAudio (or you can extract the relevant libraries from the padsp and use them with apulse).

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  • As for 1.5, 1.4 and 1.0 thy seem to miss but since the source of them is still on sourceforge it would not be very difficult to bring them to OBS. (openSUSEs "AUR" if you want to call it like this but also the official repos are hosted there an packages are build in their cloud and not on the local machine plus support for automated testing thanks to OpenQA)

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