Cave Story Linux and Wine'ing

You can grab the Linux port of Cave Story here, on Archive.org:

http://www.archive.org/details/CavestorydoukutsuForLinuxV1.01

Looked for a VICE binary suitable for the AA1, but haven't found one yet. Guess I'll have to build one.

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As for running apps with Wine, it was easier than I thought it would be.

First, grab wine from the repository with yum.

yum install wine-devel (the latest version will be the devel branch)

Running it creates a ".wine" directory and tree under your user account. Windows hierarchy lives in ".wine/c_drive/Program Files/Blah", if you run a Windows installer.

Running an app with Wine is easy... too easy.

wine MyApp.exe [ARGS]

Depending on the complexity of the app, wait a bit, and it should start shortly.

Easy.

I initially ran Cave Story this way, which ran 40-60% normal speed on the AA1. The Linux port runs full speed.

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You can mount an ISO image on Linux as follows.

mount -o loop /path/to/file.iso /path/to/mount/point

Mount point MUST BE an existing folder. Likely /mnt/blah.

Found this by Googling.