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 === Playing games for Windows in Linux ===
-There are several ways you can try to do this:
+There are 3 ways you are able to run the windows version of a game.
-==== Virtualization ====
+. Use ags for linux
+If you have [https://github.com/adventuregamestudio/ags/ ags for linux] installed, you can either create a launcher, or start the game from a terminal.
+The syntax is the same:
+ags /path_to_game/
+From a terminal you can run ags --help to get more command line options.
-Create a virtual Windows machine and run the game on that machine. Try [http://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox] or [http://www.vmware.com/ VMware].
-==== Emulation ====
+. Use wine
+[http://www.winehq.org/ Wine] is an implementation of the windows API.
+[http://www.playonlinux.com/ PlayOnLinux] is a game-oriented front-end for Wine.
+Use your file manager to go to the directory and double click on the executable.
-You can emulate a Windows environment in Linux. Try [http://www.winehq.org/ Wine], an API wrapper. [http://www.playonlinux.com/ PlayOnLinux] is a game-oriented front-end for Wine.
+. In a virtual machine
+If you have a virtual machine like [http://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox] or [http://www.vmware.com/ VMware] with windows installed in it, you can start that an run the game from there.
+The first option will give you the best performance. The second one will be slightly slower. The third option will be much slower.
 == Creating games in/for Linux ==