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WineX (And Warcraft3) On FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on from the crossing-boundaries dept.

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.

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  1. WineX by 91degrees · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    Will there be a port to Windows any time soon?

  2. Where is the WineO port though? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    *hic*

  3. "bsd is dead" blah blah by mackstann · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. This is not a dupe by Old+Wolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.