Frame from a game of Quake For all those who fail to renounce the idea that a PC is not a gaming console, you point out the open source software PlayOnLinux a solution now stable and based on library written in Python that allows you to install and run a large number games written for Windows!

Like many other similar projects, including PlayOnLinux is based on Wine (W ine I s N ot an E mulator) the known framework written in C that makes possible the implementation of many programs developed for Windows on "other" platforms. Nell 'download area of the official website of the project are available binaries already packaged for Debian and its derivatives.

Although I have not yet had time to test it, from what I read around PlayOnLinux think that is much more than a front end of Wine: The program includes a series of scripts that allow you to create and configure the best environment as game that you choose to install. They are available 10 official script for example, but you can download from many other repositories of the community behind the project and - why not - create their own. That someone will try and I do know from!