New Transgaming WineX Release

Thunderbird writes "Transgaming released a new version of WineX. Winex allows you to run x86 windows games and programs on x86 Linux. It includes allmost full directx support (up to 7 including direct3d). " I'm still skeptical of their business model, but I subscribed anyway in the hopes that The Sims and its expansion packs will work soon. They look legit, although I only own 2 windows program (The Sims, Diablo 2, and their expansion packs) so I don't have much to test it on.

Comments

Why would you want a port of a bad windows game?

[Win-Developer]

I mean seriously...the single player game sucked ass.

Re:Perils of the BSD-style licence of WINE?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm so sick and tired of people whining about the BSD license.

If everything used the GPL, all the software in the world would suck as badly as the GPL'd crap on freshmeat.

The only two GPL'd programs that are worth downloading are GCC and The Gimp, and neither of them are revolutionary. They're merely acceptable substitutes for commercial programs that are much better. One could argue for KDE and Mozilla, too, I suppose.

The GPL would have languished in obscurity if it hadn't been for the Linux kernel, and it's time that RMS faced that fact. From now on, it's the Linux/GPL!

Re:Perils of the BSD-style licence of WINE?

[Ogerman]

Preach it, bro. It's about time someone got it right. The only people whom the BSD license benefits are those who want to leech off the work of others instead of supporting the community. Because BSD is less free than GPL. It's amazing how many people are confused on that issue.

Bankrupt in six months

[BluedemonX]

This is a CANADIAN company.

Lest we forget Rebel.com? Corel? The share price of Nortel?

High taxes and the brain drain'll kill this one dead right quick.

Re:Look at the compatibility list!

[tsmit]

Hey thats great, i can play all these kickass games that i played, what, almost two years ago on Windows?

You guys call this progress?