[PC_Support] Cedega (fka WineX) and "pure" WINE for games and apps ...

[Justin M. Keyes]

I had a transgaming subscription a year ago and warcraft 3 (expansion
and original) ran great on it--perfect. the only glitches were in
battle.net chat, but they were minor (I don't think the hotkeys worked
in battle.net chat. The hotkeys definitely work in the gameplay,
however--I have a completely customized hotkey file, too. uses left
hand only)

On 12/23/04, Read, Greg <readg at nfl.jaguars.com> wrote:
> I've been considering a Cedega subscription.
> Warcraft3 support is passable under "pure" Wine, but not nearly as good
> as Windows.
> Is it as good as it looks? What games are you running?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pc_support-admin at matrixlist.com [mailto:pc_support-
> > admin at matrixlist.com] On Behalf Of Bryan J. Smith
> > Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 9:51 PM
> > To: pc_support at matrixlist.com
> > Subject: [PC_Support] Cedega (fka WineX) and "pure" WINE for games and
> 
> > apps ...
> >
> > In addition to dorking around with a few native binaries/installers
> for
> > a few Windows games, I also just subscribed to Transgaming's Cedega
> > (formerly WineX) and have a few popular titles now running under it.
> I
> > will have a HOWTO for Fedora Core 2/3 shortly, including doing
> > everything from Point2Play (and installing only that single RPM).
> >
> > For applications, I also now have portions of MS Office 97 SBE running
> 
> > under "pure" WINE using the RPMs for Fedora from WineHQ (2004Oct19
> > release).  Other than launching the program's installer, the only
> thing
> > I did was copy over fonts from XP and symlink a few drive letters
> (e.g.,
> > H:->../../).  Native OpenOffice.org on Linux does just about
> everything
> > I need, but I occasionally need to check exact formatting of DOC
> exports
> > (such as the DOC version of my resume).  Same deal with "protecting"
> an
> > .XLS that I export from Gnumeric (can't seem to "protected" it so
> Excel
> > imports it as protected, but the per-cell "lock" does work).  Now I
> can
> > without running over to my wife's system in the rare cases I need to.
> >
> > I know Crossover Office exists, but I don't think I need it.  I only
> > needed to run Word 97 and Excel 97, and they do well under "pure" WINE
> 
> > without any extra config (other than copying fonts from XP).
> >
> >
> > --
> > Bryan J. Smith                                    b.j.smith at ieee.org
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Subtotal Cost of Ownership (SCO) for Windows being less than Linux
> > Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) assumes experts for the former, costly
> > retraining for the latter, omitted "software assurance" costs in
> > compatible desktop OS/apps for the former, no free/legacy reuse for
> > latter, and no basic security, patch or downtime comparison at all.
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Justin Keyes