Half-Life 2 Under Linux Review

as writes "TransGaming Technologies, a developer of software portability products that allow game developers and publishers to develop games for one system and deploy them across multiple platforms, has released version 4.2 of their Wine fork Cedega on 7 December 2004. The new version of Cedega 4.2 offers support for Valve's bleeding edge action shooter Half-Life 2. linuX-gamers.net has tested Half-Life 2 with Cedega 4.2 and has written a short review of the game under Linux."

Comments

Don't use Cedega for new games

[advocate_one]

How does using the game with Cedega register as a Linux sale??? The games publishers aren't going to get any feedback that it was a Linux sale at all... they'll just see it as an ms-windows sale and thus won't have any incentive to port it to Linux. Using Cedega to run new games isn't doing Linux gaming any good. You should be boycotting the game and telling the publishers exactly why you are doing this.

When an exciting game is announced by a publisher, take the trouble to go to the website and check if it will be available for Linux. If not, let them know you're not happy by using the feedback provided. If they don't know they're losing customers, they'll think everybody is happy.

Re:Did you read the article?

[0racle]

allow you to run on hardware different from the original
That would be a hardware emulator.

win32 implementation for Linux
No, its intersepting win32 calls and translating them to something the Linux system understands. It is emulating a Windows environment.

There is nothing about it being an emulator that means it has to pretend its running on different hardware then it is, for instance VirtualPC running on a Intel machine. Its still an emulator, but it is providing exactly the same machine type and hardware to the guest OS. Wine emulates a Windows environment, it is an emulator.