Running Windows Games with WineX

GonzoJohn writes "Linux Orbit takes a look at TransGaming Technologies' WineX and puts it through its paces with eight different Windows games. In addition to reviewing: Diablo 2, Starcraft, LinksLS 1998 (Golf Simulation), Dungeon Keeper 2, Populous the Beginning, Black and White, Fallout 2 and Might and Magic 6 under WineX 2.1, we also give you some helpful tips to make your WineX gaming experience as pleasant as possible."

Comments

No GUI installer - so what?

[Hee Hee Hee]

One thing sorely lacking with WineX is any sort of GUI installer.

Come on...if you're using Linux, what's the big deal about command line installation? Yeah, I know - make it appealing to the masses, blah, blah, blah. But to say that it's SORELY lacking takes the criticism a bit too far.

Re:No Dick - so what?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey fucktard - you wrote that there's nothing that you can do in a GUI that can't be done equally well from a command line. That's quite a gross fucking generalization. I'd like to see you edit some JPEGS using a command line you half-wit. In your rush to make a post, you decided to use your ass instead of your brain, although I have a feeling the two may not be all that different. You are a child molestor of the worst kind. And honestly, you know you need a GUI. How else are you going to paste your picture into all those gay porn JPEGS you keep downloading? You're a fucking retard and I hate you. You probably live in San Francisco and suck dick in public restrooms. Then, after you've serviced your client, you tell him all about the wonders of Windows 98 and how much you love using it. See, I know when you get on "The Internet" you try to be a fucking Linux badass but in reality you're just a fag with mommy's new Dell (which you only get to use when she's not signed on to AIM talking dirty to me.)

Do you have a tiny penis? Yes, you do. You're sad. It's just like DMX said, "You are a fucking Linux-homo who has sex with men in bathrooms." Did your father make you grab your ankles? Where exactly did you go wrong?

Also, you are not a "techie", as you so eloquently put it. Your raging stupidity proves that you are nothing more than another child who walks around mommy's house holding his dick but has his lunch money stolen every day of junior high. You're a fucking boner. In conclusion, stop making stupid posts (I will be checking your other posts for other stupid things you have said and reply to them in time.) and go have sex with your priest again, you faggot Christian.

Wine is illegal

[Anonymous Coward]

Just as illegal as that rip-off of a Cisco product mentioned on Slashdot earlier today.

Just because you might not like Microsoft for being a monopoly, and just because they maintain that position by acting illegally, does not grant anybody a right to rip off their work.

The Windows APIs represent a lot of work, (yes, I know, they are flawed, rubbish, etc, I am not denying that in the slightest), but if Microsoft wanted to they could completely crush the Wine developers in court.

The Wine project started as a *loader* for Windows binaries, to help porting programs over to Linux. What it has become is just an attempt to replace the Windows APIs with versions written from scratch, and - here's the important bit - bundle them all together so that they are a free alternative to Windows.

Doesn't that *SOUND* illegal to you? Hello, wake up, that's because it IS in most countries.

I suspect that the only reason Microsoft are ignoring it, (at the moment), is because they could use it as a *DEFENSE* in court, just by saying, 'Monopoly? Huh? Loads of people are ripping off our work, and we've just ignored them, despite the fact we know about it, that is hardly the way a monopoly would react, duh.'.

Don't you see that by continuing with the Wine project you are just making the situation worse? Back in the Windows 3.1 days, the goal might even have been achievable anyway, but now it isn't - the APIs are so wrapped up with the OSs' internal structures you will never get it working anywhere near the point where it would be anything more than laughable.

Yeah, yeah, some programs run. I could make a machine that would play chess with me and always win, as long as I always played in a certain way. Big deal. You can always write an emulator to run one particular program.

So, basically, the Wine developers are:

* Acting illegally
* Fueling Microsoft's legal defence
* Bickering amoungst themselves about licensing
* Trying to achieve a near impossible goal
* Lessening the desire to promote Linux on non-i386 hardware, (which is one of the most interesting features of Linux)

So, just what is the point?

Sorry that this sounds like one massive rant, and I know that I am going to get flamed for it, but at the end of the day, you know I am right - you just don't like hearing it. Technically, the idea of re-implementing the Windows APIs is an interesting one, but any emulator is interesting from a technical point of view.

Re:True Linux Gaming

[goldspider]

"Given that I have an installation of Windows 98SE to play games on at home, how many people would be willing to install Linux in order to play Doom 3? I'd suggest there would be a lot."

This statement is optimistic at best and naive at worst. Why would any game company deliberately exclude a HUGE segment of their market (Windows users)? In the socialist-utopian model, this might work, but that's simply not how real life works.

And wouldn't it be ironic for a game company to charge $60 for a product and market it to a community who largely feels that it should be distributed for free. Wait, that's not irony, that's stupidity.

Re:True Linux Gaming

[killmenow]

I have the perfect business plan for tapping the Linux gaming market:

1. Develop Linux Only Game
2. ????
3. Profit!

Sorry...had to be done.