WineX (And Warcraft3) On FreeBSD

Dan writes "Kenneth Culver has implemented the Linux ftruncate64, truncate64, and mmap2 syscalls in the linuxulator on his computer, (mostly cut 'n pasted the mmap2 from regular mmap with a couple of changes) and with these changes it is possible to run the Linux version of WineX (the one you have to pay for) to run Warcraft 3 on FreeBSD." If WineX is interesting to you, this earlier article on playing Windows games with WineX (under Linux) may be worth a read.

Comments

WineX

[91degrees]

I'd love to try this, but I don't have a *nix system.

Will there be a port to Windows any time soon?

Re:WineX

[billybob2001]

All Windows users should have
cygwin

It's the law!

Ok, it's not, but it should be.

Where is the WineO port though?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm just waiting for the WineO port so I can sit on my park bench and game all evening.

*hic*

"bsd is dead" blah blah

[mackstann]

i can picture all of the AC's scurrying to open up ~/text/bsd-is-dead.html to begin pasting away.

This is not a dupe

[Old Wolf]

Note - this is not a dupe

I feel that this is informative, due to the extremely high dupe story rate on slashdot in the last few days.

BSD is dying?

[Anonymous Coward]

No way, it's already partying with elvis, jim morrison, and stephen king

Dogma

[khakipuce]

If I buy a big electric motor and a fan and connect it to the grid, I can use it to drive my wind turbine continuously to produce light to power the solar panels on my roof to produce electricity for my house.

I have many tools in my toolbox, this saves me having to drive nails with a screwdriver.

wineX is nothing more than a novelty for games

[t0qer]

Running your windows games using winex is like trying to swim laps wearing a 3 peice suit.

WineX is not a replacement for native ports.