Hi all!
The other day I was wondering the same thing. So I checked Wine's compatibility database, downloaded the demo, and started playing.
What you need to be looking at is:
AO,
AE.
And here's how to do it (for the demos at least, the full games should follow a similar process):
- wine exeddemo.exe (replace with appropriate .exe, you may be able to double-click in some GUI instead of typing this)
- Follow the simple unzipping process (OK, Unzip, OK)
- cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Abe\'s\ Exoddus\ Demo
- wine Exoddus.exe -interline
The -interline option is necessary for AO because its videos go funky without it. I'm not sure if it's needed for AE, but I don't feel like restarting X right now (if you kill it you get stuck with a low resolution).
You can thank Wil for alerting me to this thread's existence.