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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?

    1. Re:WineX by StefMeister · · Score: 5, Insightful

      This is just silly. If one wants people to use Linux, you've got to eliminate barriers keeping them from doing so. WineX is a solution (although it may not be perfect) for lowering one of the most important barriers: 'Can I still use that Windows app that I use so much when I switch'.
      Read this interesting article by Joel Spolsky, about removing barriers for more info.

      Furthermore, do you really think there are less people developing OSS because there's WineX. I don't think so, maybe fewer developers will try to rewrite a win application that works perfectly wih WineX, but they will develop something else instead (work enough if you ask me).

      Stef

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  2. Re:Performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The FreeBSD Linux emulator isn't really an emulator as such: it substitutes a different syscall table for the FreeBSD one and runs the ELF binary as if it were Linux. Sometimes it's slower than Linux, sometimes it's faster. Performance should be much the same as Linux.

  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. Xgames by katalyst · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Games seem to be a major factor when it comes to choosing an OS (or even a console). Thanks to apps like Wine and orgs like Loki, we'll have em all someday on the *nix systems. Things are looking up. I got hold of The Return to Castle Wolfenstien beta for linux before I could get a Windows version. And if you're targetting Linux , why not the rest of the *nix distros. It's all moving in the right direction. How about a KILLER game for the *nix platform which can NOT be run on windows........

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  5. 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.

  6. Re:Performance by Jimmy_B · · Score: 5, Informative
    What is the performance like when BSD is emulating linux which is emulating windows?
    No emulation is occuring; WineX implements the Windows API, and this article says someone implemented some Linux API calls on BSD. It doesn't involve any translation of machine code, which is the slow part of emulation; theoretically, it should run at the same speed as the Windows version, if the device drivers are of equal quality.
  7. Cool: This is what open source is about by Paul+Bristow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I do not run *BSD, as I know Linux and am comfortable with at after some 9 years of use. However, it is a great testament to the power of the open source concept that this is possible at all. I am tremendously impressed with the BSD guys for achieving this.

    Remember, it is a Good Thing tm to have a computing infrastructure made of diverse systems. So the more code that can be run on Linux , *BSD, Hurd, OSX and others the better.

    Today, Wine is probably no less compatible with a random version of windows than any other random version of windows.

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  8. Re:Wine compatibility problems by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 5, Informative
    Check out some screenshots I took last week of Wine on RedHat 8 - these are not faked, Wine runs all those apps (not always perfectly though).

    There are more here

    I use Wine almost every day to run IE6 with the Adobe SVG Plugin and it works great. How do I do this? Simply, I got a copy of Crossover (a commercial distro of Wine) and pointed it at a build from Wine CVS.

    Wine isn't yet easy enough to setup for most people, so Codeweavers do it for you. Think of them as the Redhat of Wine. It is possible to do anything you can do in CrossOver with WineHQ wine, but it's a lot harder. Wine is scheduled to get "ease of use" some time around 0.9 and 1.0 which are happening probably sometime mid to late next year.

  9. wineX from cvs(for free) by gl4ss · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://frankscorner.org/wine/modules.php?op=modloa d&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=6 8&page=1
    title says it all;
    "If you don't want to spend 5 bucks on WineX, you can always try compile it yourself, but the CVS version of WineX is a little different from the commercial version:
    * no support for Installshield installers
    * no copy protection code

    To install WineX from CVS you must have CVS installed on your computer."

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  10. Re:Lack of BSD software by quantum+bit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's no wonder that BSD lacks behind linux in software when it is missing important system calls!

    No, BSD just got it right the first time :-P

    From a freebsd-emulation mailing list post:

    To me, it looks like mmap2 takes an offset that's a page index, rather
    than a byte position. Since linux passes the offset with a 32-bit
    long, rather than a 64-bit off_t like we do, they need to do this in
    order to be able to map offsets larger than 4GB into a file.

    So mmap2 would be redundant on BSD...