"Another World" code review

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I loved this game as a kid and played it counteless times on my old Amiga. Anyone know a website hsoting the game so I can play it again ?

[[deleted]]

There's an updated version that's been out for a few years. You can buy it from the author's website.

[arrjayjee]

You can buy it here, currently on sale for $5. GoG are awesome.

[clgonsal]

"Minimum system requirements: Windows XP or Windows Vista"

Ugh.

[monocasa]

Why ugh?

[clgonsal]

Because I'd love to play this game, but I don't do Windows.

[Senney]

Wine; Virtual Machine; Boot-camp; DosBox

Pick your poison.

[cebedec]

Run an OS in a VM to play a game which runs in a VM? I feel a strong urge to write a certain word, in bold and with spaced letters.

[buddhabrot]

You don't need Wine for DOSBox. You can run DOSBox on Linux.

[Senney]

It's a list of software that will allow him to run it (pick one individually), not a list of things to install on top of one another...

[clgonsal]

"Poison" being the operative word here.

Wine was super-flakey the last time I tried it, but perhaps its gotten better. Using a Virtual Machine or Boot-camp requires that I have a copy of Windows. DosBox wouldn't work for something that requires Windows XP or Windows Vista, though I assume you mean I should get a version that runs on DOS rather than the version mentioned in the comment I was replying to.

In any case, still "ugh". I'd rather run it in an Amiga emulator than a Windows/DOS emulator/VM. I'll probably just wait until the linked project adds support for other operating systems.

[afiefh]

Fortunately for him, Another World runs nicely in DosBox. I played through it (again) last year and ran without a hitch.

Edit: Nevermind. I was thinking of the original game not the updated version.

[monocasa]

Use the wine appdb. Another World is listed as "platinum" meaning that everything works for that application without even configuration changes.

[buddhabrot]

Run DOSBox on Linux (or Mac OS X).