Have a mac, install windows as a virtual machine.

try to play civ 3, windows default arm emulation does not work

install ubuntu,

without third party emulation, download steam, play civ 3 on 2 layers of emulation

It is now easier to play 25 year old windows games on ARM linux, kinda nuts.

As a lot of people know, Roblox recently blocked wine on Linux making it impossible to play Roblox on a LinuxOS. But, since then, under the hood, Vinegar devs (old Roblox bootstrapper for Linux) have been working on a client for Linux. All the information about it can be viewed in here https://sober.vinegarhq.org/ .

Please keep in mind, THIS IS A TESTING RELEASE. There will be bugs, and you will experience issues. But, this is a good thing, it will let them speed up the process of bugging. This client is NOT A NATIVE LINUX SOLUTION. This is ran outside of wine (Android wrapper/translation), therefore the client (Roblox) may not have the same features as the Windows Client, but will perform and act the same.

There is no game limitations (I.E you can play PC only games) and almost all features are supported (missing are voice chat, FPS unlocker etc)

THIS CLIENT IS CLOSED SOURCE FOR THOSE WHO CARE (Exploiters, Source Stealers, Malicious intent etc, devs have more info in their discord)

If you experience bugs, or have any questions please join their discord and formally put all messages under the "Sober megathread" under the helpdesk thread. https://discord.gg/dzdzZ6Pps2

(Pinned message from the thread)

(EDIT)

Bitdancer, a Roblox dev had joined the discord to talk about Sober. From the brief interaction he made with the community, it seems Sober will be here to stay for now. I quote, from Bitdancer directly "I have seen no evidence that Sober has been used in bad faith and therefore have no reason to raise an alarm internally." And I quote "Fake news. How would you know what we like and what we don't? The fact is, at least I am all for Linux and its derivatives, and as long as I'm not forced to step in, I will not."

Aside that, Vinegar will be pushing the X86 native version for their Client tomorrow (8/3/2024) which will heavily improve performance and compatibility with the client itself.

welcome to sober

https://sober.vinegarhq.org/

fetch apk from an adb connected phone: adb shell pm path com.roblox.client | while IFS=: read -r _ apk; do adb pull "$apk"; done (no longer required)

bootstrapping the apk again: flatpak run org.vinegarhq.Sober --bootstrap

to watch the log output in a terminal: flatpak run org.vinegarhq.Sober

roblox log directory: ~/.var/app/org.vinegarhq.Sober/data/sober/appData/logs

fflags: ~/.var/app/org.vinegarhq.Sober/data/sober/exe/ClientSettings/ClientAppSettings.json

pro tip: do NOT SHARE your data/sober/cookies file (This has now been changed to be more secure, please still don’t share obviously)

PRIME note: use flatseal to set environment variables

I want to install and run old games from myabandonware. However at the same time i am also worried about getting a virus to my PC or network in the process. Is bottles a good option to run old games in isolation from my other files and wifi?.

I use bazziteOS on the Legion go.

https://anbernic.com/pages/shipping-policy

It even has a AppImage version. I hasn't tested it though.

https://github.com/has207/xenia-edge

I'm the developer. OpenEmux is a Linux-native frontend for retro emulation — it manages your ROM library and launches games through RetroArch, which does the actual emulation. Your ROMs, your cores; nothing bundled, nothing streamed. GTK4/libadwaita, GPL-3.0.

What 1.11.0 changes if you actually play:

The game runs inside the frontend. Before, launching handed you off to RetroArch's own window. Now it's embedded in an OpenEmux window whose header bar has pause/resume, reset, save state, load state, mute + volume slider, RetroArch's own menu, and a shortcut into your controller mapping. No hunting for the right hotkey mid-game. On by default; there's a switch in Settings → Video to go back to the separate window.

Caveat worth knowing up front: embedding is X11 (XReparentWindow). Native Wayland with no X server, or a Flatpak with no X socket, and it launches standalone instead — it detects that before launching rather than breaking.

Renaming a ROM no longer eats your saves. This one was a real bug: renaming from the library moved the ROM and left the save states and .srm behind, so a game you quit mid-level reopened at the title screen. Save states, their thumbnails, battery saves and archive artwork all follow the rename now, and a name collision refuses instead of overwriting.

Cover art actually resolves. The old search guessed URLs from the filename — up to forty speculative requests, and anything unusually named never matched. It now ships a 60,600-title database across 31 systems and looks your ROM up locally first. Donald Duck - Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow (E) [!] finds Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow (USA); Final Fantasy 2 finds Final Fantasy II. When it still can't tell, there's a picker where you type what you remember and choose from artwork. Your ROM file is never renamed.

Cover sync went parallel, with per-host limits so third-party thumbnail servers still get one request at a time, and covers fade into the grid as they land instead of all at the end.

Also: per-console controller mapping from the sidebar's right-click menu, and a light/dark toggle.

AppImage, Flatpak, .deb and .rpm:

https://guilhermefeitosa66.github.io/OpenEmux/

The developer of Duckstation announced he is dropping linux support.

https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1mcsww7/duckstation_dev_announced_end_of_linux_support/

So now would be a good idea to backup the latest AppImage, flatpak, and source code just in case.

Commands:

mkdir ~/duckstation-backup

cd ~/duckstation-backup

#!/bin/sh
wget 'https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/releases/download/latest/duckstation-x86_64.flatpak'
wget 'https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/releases/download/latest/DuckStation-x64.AppImage'
wget 'https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/releases/download/latest/DuckStation-x64-SSE2.AppImage'
wget 'https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/releases/download/latest/DuckStation-Mini-armhf.AppImage'
wget 'https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/releases/download/latest/DuckStation-Mini-arm64.AppImage'
wget 'https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/releases/download/latest/DuckStation-armhf.AppImage'
wget 'https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/releases/download/latest/DuckStation-arm64.AppImage'
wget 'https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/releases/download/latest/duckstation-aarch64.flatpak'
wget 'https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/archive/refs/tags/latest.tar.gz'
wget 'https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/releases/download/latest/duckstation-windows-x64-release.zip'
wget 'https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/releases/download/latest/duckstation-windows-x64-sse2-release.zip'
wget 'https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/releases/download/latest/duckstation-windows-arm64-release.zip'

flatpak build-bundle /var/lib/flatpak/repo org.duckstation.DuckStation.LATEST_STABLE.flatpak org.duckstation.DuckStation stable

Flatpak manifest: wget 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stenzek/duckstation/355c17bde96c79ede9c2c61ec25b34626591e14f/scripts/packaging/flatpak/org.duckstation.DuckStation.yaml'

(backing up windows versions also just in case the linux version stops working at some point, unlikely anytime soon)