MPAGD can be opened on Linux with Wine, but...

[Cheez26]

...I don't even know what to do with it. Nor do I know how well will it work exporting games.

Has anyone else tried MPAGD with Wine before. So far, I find the interface...confusing.
Any ideas for a fix or a workaround or even some guidance I might need in order to get started?

[PeterJ]

@Cheez26,

This is the tutorial that I followed:

https://www.minilopretro.com/amp/let-s- ... ng-started

[Cheez26]

@PeterJ Well, on one hand, I'll follow this tutorial to test MPAGD on Linux with Wine. On the other, I'm rather nervous about the possibility of a system-wide crash and I'm not sure why.

P.S.: You posted twice so you got my attention for sure.

[PeterJ]

You posted twice so you got my attention for sure.

Thanks. Deleted one.

[hikoki]

That's interesting. Let's see if MPAGD crashes much on Wine. As the boot system of my Windows XP laptop is broken, I'll try Wine and ReactOS under VirtualBox.

Minilopretro's site is great. You may also want to take a look at Jonathan Cauldwell's youtube channel :
https://m.youtube.com/@jonathancauldwell9822/videos

[Cheez26]

That's interesting. Let's see if MPAGD crashes much on Wine. As the boot system of my Windows XP laptop is broken, I'll try Wine and ReactOS under VirtualBox.

I could just be overly paranoid. I think you should try it anyway.

[firelord]

MPAGD did not run well with WINE.
The problem is in some of the compilers. If I remember correctly some were 64bit. The wine versions I use are for win32*.

When I have time I will retry with conty.sh**.
example running WINE from conty :

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WINEFSYNC=1 ./conty.sh wine someapplication.exe

example for steam :
run-as-user conty.sh /usr/bin/steam-native (run-as-user is for debiandogs only -you can ommit it.)

*I use wine appimages to run games
** If you use linux you should have a look at conty (https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty) :
Conty is a "unprivileged Linux container packed into a single executable" . it contains these in just one (2GB) file : https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty/releas ... g_list.txt

[Cheez26]

@firelord You do realize that later versions of Wine have 64-bit along with 32-bit, right? Otherwise, it wouldn't be a surprise that it didn't run well.

[firelord]

@firelord You do realize that later versions of Wine have 64-bit along with 32-bit, right? Otherwise, it wouldn't be a surprise that it didn't run well.

Have you tried wine for windows 64bit? Many years ago I tried to setup a puppy with 64bit windows support. I couldn't make it work.
If I get my hands on an appimage that works I'll use it.

[Cheez26]

Have you tried wine for windows 64bit? Many years ago I tried to setup a puppy with 64bit windows support. I couldn't make it work.
If I get my hands on an appimage that works I'll use it.

I usually use Linux Mint, which is a non-Puppy distro. However, I suggest checking out BookwormPup64 and then getting the Wine 8.0 SFS made for that specific version. It's actually quite polished.

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=8690
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic. ... 90#p100190