[Mannshoch]

Some Games in my collection are from Windows 95/98/xp - I digitalized all my old Games to Wine - they may work on a Raspberry??

But on the other hand, If there is a nice solution to play Wine Games on Kodi I may replace the Raspberry with a x86 device.

But I was not able to find any solution at moment. Currently, I run my games - non are from steam - on Lutris.

[garbear]

Sorry, this feature doesn't exist yet. Wine capture is an interesting idea though.

[RockerC]

Microsoft Windows 95, Windows98, and Windows ME are all built on top of MS-DOS so a potential workaround could be to run Windows 95/98/ME under DOSBox as that in essence is a DOS emulator (e.g. MS-DOS).

There are several different forks of DOSBox cores for libretro API and I believe that you would probably have the best luck with trying to run Microsoft Windows 98 on DOSBox Pure:

https://github.com/libretro?q=dosbox&typ...uage=&sort=

https://github.com/kodi-game/?q=dosbox&t...uage=&sort=

https://docs.libretro.com/library/dosbox/

https://www.dosbox.com/DOSBoxManual.html

Regardless note that you will probably need a modern x86 computer with an Intel x86-64 or AMD x86-64 CPU that has very high GHz/MHz per core with fast single-thread performance since it will probably not run multi-threaded.

If you search on google then you will at least find some examples of ways to install Windows 95/98/ME under various forks and versions of DOSBox:

https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Basic_Setup_..._of_DosBox

https://www.emuvr.net/wiki/DOSBox_Games

https://leo3418.github.io/2023/01/03/win...osbox.html

https://dosbox-x.com/wiki/Guide%3AInstalling-Windows-95

https://dosbox-x.com/wiki/Guide%3AInstalling-Windows-98

https://dosbox-x.com/wiki/Guide%3AInstalling-Windows-ME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xynDgexf5Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_gXu8aLWHw


PS: This idea will not work for Microsoft Windows XP since that was built on Microsoft's Windows NT kernel (same as Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000).

[RockerC]

An alternative could be to port "PCem" and/or "86Box" (fork of PCem) as a new libretro core(s) for Kodi's Game API and RetroPlayer?

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=372680

"PCem" and "86Box" are true low-level x86 PC emulators so they could not only run Windows 95/98/ME but also Windows XP:

[Mannshoch]

I think about a similar behavior like people speak about Steam Deck.
I hope for the posibility to install and setup an addon for wine. I would like it If I could copy the Lutris folder to kodi and have their links in kodi.

It yould be way easy if I could setup Games on desktop instead on kodi.

[zachmorris]

Have you looked at AKL? It wouldn't directly launch the game in Kodi, but it could launch the game with your external wine environment.

[Mannshoch]

Sounds interesting. On the first glance it seems there are some programming skills needed. I have to check the difficulty. Bash works good but I never worked with python.

[Mannshoch]

I don't see that I'm able to modify https://github.com/chrisism/script.akl.d...default.py that way I could use it with WINE.

As far I could see I have somehow to start an exe in wine. For that I could either use Lutris
env LUTRIS_SKIP_INIT=1 lutris lutris:rungameid/6
... or check the set up YML files in ~/.config/lutris/games
and the wine settings in /.config/lutris

[Mannshoch]

The easyest solution would be If I could simply setup a kind of .desktop file which I could Put into a specific directory and get them accessible in Kodi.