Page Category: Giocoso

Here are the instructions on getting Giocoso running on Windows 10, distilled into their most concise form. All you get are the instructions on what to type and what to do: no screenshots, no explanations -and if there's a sequence of actions that happen as a result of typing in something, you're supposed to know how to work through those by yourself! Note that the instructions are specific to Windows 10, because you do not need to install separate X or PulseAudio servers on Windows 11. Giocoso-on-Windows-11 therefore has its own installation guide entirely.

If you want or need the long-form version that does take the time to describe things carefully, step-by-step and with pictures and explanations, click here. [...] 

1.0 Introduction

Running Giocoso on Windows is not exactly difficult, but it's not trivially to document either! The basic premise is that Giocoso is a Bash script and so Windows needs to be able to run Bash scripts for it to work on that platform. There are various ways that can be arranged, but in these days of Windows 10 and 11, the simplest is probably to install and run the Windows Subsystem for Linux, Version 2 -or 'WSL2' for short.

WSL2 is a fairly transparent way to run a real Linux distro 'within' Windows -and, in its most recent incarnations, it's fairly easy to get Linux programs that output audio and graphics to 'pipe them' onto the Windows desktop and audio hardware. All that needs to be present on Windows for that to happen is an X server and a Pulseaudio Server. [...]