10.4. Win16
10.4.1. Wabi
Wabi is a commercial Win16 emulator. That is, it'll run Windows 16-bit applications from a Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11 or Windows for Workgroups 3.11 environment. Wabi was originally created by SCO Unix a long time ago and then was purchased by Caldera sometime in mid year 2001.
Wabi is fast and does a good job for what it does, although I've heard it said that wabi for Solaris is more stable than Linux.
It might be useful for playing older Win16 games, but there are three problems:
- You must have a licensed copy of Windows 3.1/3.11 or WfW 3.11.
- Wabi is awfully expensive for what it does.
- Wabi doesn't work under 32bpp or 24bpp color.
Wabi does NOT do DOS itself, but it looks like it can use a DOS emulator as a backend for running DOS programs. There was talk about Wabi 3.0 which would've done Win32 emulation, but AFAIK, this project was shelved indefinitely. I think Wabi will run under Linux on all architectures (can someone verify this?)
* License
* The Linux Gamers' How-To Index