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Old 02-12-2004
running preinstalled programs

Im using the knoppix version of linux, which is booting straight off the cd, and it shows my c drive (partiton) that has all my programs i have installed in my xp operating system. Im wondering if theres a way i can play my games like lotr return of the king, or jedi academy, in knoppox. it shows the .exe's but when i click them it sais emulator.. So my guess was maybe there was an exe win amulator i need to run these programs.

If you guys could help me any, it would be appreciated.
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Old 02-13-2004
Hmm... Your Windows games doesn't work because there is another filesystem... no Fat or NTFS but probably Ext2...
I heard about emulators like DosEmu and Wine, but i didn't install it so i don't know how it works... try to find it in sourceforge.net and read the readme file... there is a full description...
Have a nice day :-)
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Old 02-13-2004
None of the emulators to date work satisfacorily. Many apps do not even work with Wine for example, and the rest runs with terrible performance. So, if your favourite program is not officially available on Linux, then do not expect it will be executable at all.
 
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