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Loki's Draeker On WineX, Transgaming And More

Posted by Hemos on from the i-just-wanna-play-my-games dept.

pseen wrote to us with a conversation with Scott Draeker (of Loki Games concerning the recent Transgaming and Wine announcements, as well as the Mandrake Linux Gamer announcements.

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  1. The trouble with Transgaming... by aussersterne · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is that it's using Wine. Maybe I'm behind the times or biased, but Wine has been around for a long time now and still can't even be used to run already-installed business applications like MS Word, much less the Word installer, much less still DirectX games, much less even that that installers for DirectX games...

    The one important commercial product released so far using Wine is Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux, which was such a dismal failure that many users who paid hundreds in cash for it ended up buying the windows version in addition anyway to run under VMWare or Win4Lin.

    Wine simply has not proven itself a viable project. Don't get me wrong -- I'm not complaining about the Wine developers at all. I'm just wondering whether it's really possible (both legally and technically) to get a working, current implementation of the Windows and DirectX APIs on Linux.

    This question is, of course, in addition to the significant question of performance, not even addressed in this post...

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    1. Re:The trouble with Transgaming... by Ami+Ganguli · · Score: 5, Insightful

      My impression is that Wine has been "almost" ready for ages. The basic structure is there and works, but the MS APIs are so large and innacurately documented that many individual functions don't work or don't work exactly as on Windows. Transgaming claims to have a DirectX implementation.

      The Transgaming approach of selecting specific games and making sure that the API calls they use work properly could actually work. The question is whether or not their business model will generate enough revenue to keep up the development.

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  2. Why should linux have a windows like GUI? by HanzoSan · · Score: 4, Insightful



    Simple, to get windows users to migrate to linux, giving linux more support with hardware such as drivers, and software.

    This is a GOOD thing.

    Windows users want games, they dont care if the games are native or not, they just want to play their OLD games in Linux.

    The new games can be native but the old games are what transgaming should be porting.

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  3. Re:Here's the thing, though... by Troodon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "If I'm going to play games, I'm not going to run them through an emulator. I keep 3 machines on my desk at work"...

    Thats very nice for you and for those in your situation, an ideal solution. 'Heres the thing, though' Im a student, and while I have enough disposable capital for games and the odd rare hardware upgrade, I certainly couldnt afford OS dedicated machines.

    Now while perhaps on an indvidual basis you are a much more interesting consumer, as a representative of a wider income range cohort, whom do you think might be a more attractive target?

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