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."

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A short review

[Spoing]

This is a repost of mine from other forums.

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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: /". Installing in root would be bad...so I checked...nope. Not 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 > /proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield

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."

Re:Time-limited?

[entitude]

I asked this to the Transgaming dev team, who replied that "It requires some server contact is all [we're] saying..." Sounds like you're out of luck. On the other hand, $5/month isn't exactly expensive.