NOTE: Place compiled executable into a folder containing original game resources (not included). It builds into bin and creates a Linux executable. Then I cloned the repo under WSL and built. Sudo apt install gcc clang build-essential cmake I just launched WSL (Ubuntu) and installed a few things to compile the code: sudo apt-get install libsdl2-image-dev It's an example of how powerful (and fun) virtualization has become on modern systems! If you don't think this is cool, that's a bummer. So, could I go Windows 95 -> Linux -> Windows 11 -> WSL -> WSLg and run this new native Linux executable again on Windows? Here, they've taken a Windows 95 32-bit app and decompiled it from the original EXE, done some nice cleanup, and now it can be recompiled to other targets like Linux. I recently did a YouTube where I showed that Windows 11 runs Graphical Linux Apps out of the box with WSLg. You'll need those from a Windows XP disk or ISO that you'll need to find yourself. NOTE: Because this is a decompilation/recompilation, it doesn't include the original data files. Award for longest blog post title ever? Andrey Muzychenko has a great github repository where they decompiled the 25 year old Space Cadet Pinball application from Windows 95/XP and then recompiled it for Linux (and really any platform now that it's portable code!).
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