Posted by Dr. Willard on July 02, 2000 at 00:10:31:
This is rather off-topic, but I wonder if any of you people have tried doing so. To run the x86 versions in Linux, the biggest Unix-like OS out there, DOSEmu (http://www.dosemu.org) may be necessary for Tomb Raider 1, while the others would use Wine (http://www.winehq.com) would be necessary for the others. A further problem with DOSEmu may be getting a Glide wrapper to work in it in order to get hardware acceleration; there's nothing in the dosemu documentation that has anything on Glide wrappers. But Tomb Raider 1 may also run in Wine, for all I know.
On the Macintosh side, I've managed to run the MacOS version of Tomb Raider 2 inside of the BeOS by using a VMWare-like solution called SheepShaver (something like ShapeShifter for the Amiga). It was all software rendering, and the sounds were lagged by 1/2 second by some buffering, but it worked well. Sometime I may have to install LinuxPPC and try that out also; there's a MacOS virtual machine available for it also. And, of course, MacOS X will do doing something like that for the old MacOS (it's really NeXTStep 5).