Wine

Wine is a WINdows Emulator which allows a Linux user to play windows games and other programs. Free Geek Tech Support does not help with installing or configuring wine, but it can still be a fun and potentially useful project for the geekier minded adopter. Installing is easy from the command line (apt-get install wine) or from Synaptic. Each user on the system needs to configure the installation using winecfg. Programs can be installed or run by opening the exe file in wine.

Some tips:

• Programs on multiple cds are often easier to install if you copy all the files on to the hard drive first.
• Many games require high end video cards and the binary drivers for those cards (e.g. NVidia)