• Orygin@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    1 year ago

    I remember reading a blog post describing similar compatibility patches in Windows, writing something in the line of:

    Whenever you start an exe on windows, the OS must first ask itself the good old question of “Am I running Lego Island”

  • Stewie@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    1 year ago

    That is so funny to me. Imagine how the devs felt to know their game was so notable to get a windows compatibility just for them.

    • MachineTeaching@feddit.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      1 year ago

      It’s basically the “secret” behind Windows compatibility and part of the reason ReactOS takes so long to develop.

      • hazelnot@slrpnk.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        1 year ago

        Makes sense, graphics card manufacturers often implement patches for specific poorly-programmed games. Proton does the same thing in Linux.

        • YMS@discuss.tchncs.de
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          Does it? My understanding was that it would basically just map Windows calls to Linux calls. As it doesn’t yet cover everything under all conditions, there may be situations where the Proton devs have to add something in order to properly support a certain game, but that’s not because that game is doing something wrong, but just because those were the particular gaps in Proton’s functionality that happened to affect this game.

          • hazelnot@slrpnk.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            6
            ·
            1 year ago

            Does it? My understanding was that it would basically just map Windows calls to Linux calls.

            That’s what Wine does. Proton is built on top of Wine and has lots of patches to make various games work better (or at all)

  • SevenSwell@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 year ago

    What is it about Lego Island? It feels like there’s always something new being discovered with that game.

    • ch00f@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      From my understanding, it was created by a very passionate team who had to make what turned out to be a very ambitious game from scratch (no game engine to pull from) with very limited hardware.

      They even had to invent their own audio compression algorithm to fit the game’s soundtracks on the disc.

  • katzen@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 year ago

    If I remember correctly, Windows XP does include lots of patches and fixes to maintain compatibility with numerous games.

  • IcedCoffeeBitch@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    I knew graphics card developers and Microsoft did workarounds to fix gamedev’s bugs, but I didn’t knew it was a thing that early.