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Transgaming Announces Cedega Free Trial
ProudClod writes "Transgaming has just announced a time limited demo of their Cedega product (formerly known as WineX), which allows Windows games (including those that utilize DirectX) to be played on Linux. The demo will run for two weeks until 15th November, and will allow gamers to test out the full version of Cedega for that period. The official press release is also available."
Out of curiosity: who checks the time? If I set my system clock back whenever I wanted to play a game, would you get to use it indefinitely?
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So two things occur to me after RTFAing. First, their time-limited demo isn't that great because you can still build from the CVS sources. Sure it's a pain in the ass, but you can do it, especially if your computer is fast enough to be running the games anyway. As an aside, I'm wondering why they're saying to game publishers: "The Cedega Time Limited Demo gives you the opportunity to test your titles for free.". Shouldn't they be offering it to game devs for free anyway for better advertising? (IE: ID Games tested it and it works out of the box with Cedega).
Can the Open Source community ever accept closed source paid programming?
It's also an additional cost on an already expensive hobby.
If this was open source I could see it working, but like this?
An open demo of software as powerful as this might be useful in some other system but it's definitly a lock in in this case. The games will all become useless when the software is deactivated.
I can't see this working, in fact this may be a situation where the windows cracking community might lend a hand.
This is a repost of mine from other forums.
/". Installing in root would be bad...so I checked...nope. Not in /.
/proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield
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Sadly, I have to say that I'm not impressed with the demo version. It's a real pain to use, gives no feedback at times if it is doing something. It's also not obvious how to manually run the applications; it's not automatic enough to avoid known problems, and not discoverable enough to find an easy fix.
One positive comment: Once I was able to get a game working -- Civilization III -- it was much quicker than earlier versions of WineX when I was a subscriber.
That said, I'd rather have the old interface and the new backend; it wasn't as slick, though I didn't feel as helpless attempting to dig through it.
Right now, I've been entirely frozen out;
"Access to the downloaded file is forbidden."
OK. What does this mean?
Here's what happened leading up to the above problem;
1. Installed the demo version. Note: It reports "This product was installed in:
2. Ran cedega_timedemo to bring up the menu.
3. Installed a couple different programs.
4. Install went fine.
5. Running the programs returned the "Error=21" message.
6. Did some hunting on the Internet.
7. Cedega is incompatable with exec-shield. Exec shield can be turned off (as root);
echo 1 >
echo 0 >
8. Some programs worked...kinda. Civilization III would run, fast, though the sound had to be disabled or the background chirping noise would have driven me crazy. (Noted as a defect in Civ III...though does not happen as much in real Windows.) Updated Civ III to latest relase...no change in chirping.
9. Other programs still reported "Error=21" message. Noted that one last ditch effort that worked for users of the full version was to remove the directory and try again. Nuked the _user_ timedemo directories.
10. After entering in registration information, this message apears;
"Access to the downloaded file is forbidden."
11. Ran uninstall_cedega_timedemo.
12. Reported some directories had data. Nuked them too.
13. Reinstalled again.
14. As before -- after entering in registration information -- the message appears again;
"Access to the downloaded file is forbidden."
A firewall can not protect you from yourself. Turn off what you do not need. Do not use the firewall to do your work.
Is it just me, or is this cedega installer the biggest piece of junk ever made? I tried it as a user, but that didn't work because it prompts me for a password. I mean, at that point alone the thing already stinks, but it gets worse. I enter the root password and it still doesn't work. I try again, nothing. Finally I figure out it's using sudo and enter my own password. Now I'm not a sudoer, so I need to set that up. Try again, and now it can't write to my home directory because it's an nfs share. Ok...why not just run it as root then. But when I run as root, it still tries to run sudo, so now, stupidly enough, I end up having to add root to the list of sudoers. Finally, that got the thing to work. But man, why in the hell not let me just install it as a normal user into my home directory? Would that be so hard? Good luck getting me to pay for junk like this...
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