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Transgaming Announces Cedega Free Trial

Posted by Zonk on from the mmmmmm-free-wine dept.

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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  1. But it's Open Source... by Anusien · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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).

  2. Can they ever accept it? by Deliveranc3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.