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Jazz Jackrabbit 2 on Linux

This came as a pleasant surprise. This is where Linux beats Windows hands down. Wine can be used to run Windows native applications on Linux, whereas Windows hardly suports writing to a Linux partition, leave alone running applications. KDE 4 apps will be Windows compatible, but all that is totally the effort of the open source community, nothing related to Microsoft.

I used Wine (short for Windows Emulator) to run JJ2 on PCLinuxOS, with all the features including Internet-Multiplayer options working. Here is a screenshot -

The resolution is however quite low (640 X 480), but the rendering was smooth and not jaggered (like other Windows apps).

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