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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. Time-limited? by FooAtWFU · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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  2. Re:Can they ever accept it? by travail_jgd · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Can the Open Source community ever accept closed source paid programming?"

    While I can't speak for the community, I paid $40 to CodeWeavers for CrossOver Office. Considering how well it works, I have no regrets spending the cash. And I use OpenOffice almost all the time -- I just have some spreadsheets that only work in Excel. (The latest versions of Gnumeric, Kspread, and OpenOffice Calc fail to work properly)

    (I know, somewhat offtopic...)

  3. What the heck is up with this installer? by Codename_V · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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  4. Re:But it's Open Source... by entitude · · Score: 3, Interesting

    CVS doesn't have features found in the full version, notably the copy-protection which is essential to running games.

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