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CrossOver Games for FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on from the to-the-other-side dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Jeremy White from CodeWeavers has made the announcement that an experimental build of CrossOver Games is now available for PC-BSD users. However, this unsupported edition should also work on FreeBSD or DesktopBSD, allowing users to play Windows games on their desktop. The FreeBSD version of CrossOver Games can be downloaded here (registration required)." From the attached notes: "Remember this is an experimental build! If you are on FreeBSD 6.x, you will need to apply a system patch from http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine to enable wine to function properly. Users of FreeBSD 7.0 and higher do not need this patch."

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  1. The REAL announcement by QuantumG · · Score: 2, Funny

    Further, we feel strongly that most of our customers are best served
    by the stable, shipping version of CrossOver. That's right folks, CrossOver claims to have customers. That's the scoop! :)

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    1. Re:The REAL announcement by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 4, Funny

      They only plan on porting zombie games, as we all no BSD is dead!

      p.s before you mod me down, remember this is slashdot not youtube, you do get sarcasm here!

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    2. Re:The REAL announcement by Bronster · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I've been paying for it for years - it's the only piece of software I am paying for on Linux in fact.

      I find wine very much worthwhile as a "gateway drug" - in fact I was running Win32 perl driving a Windows OCR package under wine on one project - under linux.

      So yeah, they have customers. I don't have a clue how many, but I'm planning to renew again next year.

  2. Re:Windows User by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually, just wait. This is just mindless speculation, but don't you think it is interesting that VMWare bought Thinstall?

    All of a sudden, you have an application that can emulate a whole machine, merging with something that can take an application an all its dependencies and wrap it into a single executable. Call me crazy, but I think you will start seeing a product where you can wrap your favorite app, along with an underlying supporting OS running on a virtual machine, to target any other OS you want.

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  3. Better than regular Crossover for games? by DurendalMac · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or is it CrossOver with everything else whittled out? I tried Crossover on OS X and was very disappointed. Sure, Half-life 2 ran...at half the framerate and with DX8 support so everything looked like ass. It was pathetic. Also, if your program isn't on the supported list, don't expect it to run. I'll stick with VMWare and Boot Camp and leave CrossOver out of it.

    1. Re:Better than regular Crossover for games? by bain · · Score: 3, Informative

      It's Crossover with focus on games. you can still install office etc if you want, there is just no support for it.

      Maybe the problem is OS X and Apple not Crossover. I run HL2 and a number of other games with more than decent frame rates and everything looks fine.

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  4. Re:twm support by nawcom · · Score: 3, Interesting
    that's strange, wine, from what i know, has no direct link to the window manager you choose to run on X. hell, I have at times set up startx options so it doesn't run a window manager, it simply fills the root background black or whatever wallpaper i want, and it launches the game via wine.

    I'm the blackbox/fluxbox/enlightenment user myself, so I don't have any experience with using tab on freebsd; I'm just referring to what i know about the wine source code. If there is an issue with tab window manager, it has to have been fixed by now :)

  5. Re:twm support by Solra+Bizna · · Score: 3, Interesting

    twm's window behavior is different from what most apps expect, enough so that sometimes they explode.

    -:sigma.SB

    (twm user who is forced to use sawfish to get good workspace support)

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  6. Re:Windows User by tepples · · Score: 2, Informative

    I am pretty close to being a n00b, but can't the source simply be recompiled for Win32? Win32 and UNIX have different application programming interfaces. Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista Business and Ultimate, and Windows Server can run recompiled UNIX apps through SFU (pre-Vista) or SUA (Vista and later), but the software that allows this is not available for Windows XP Home Edition, Windows Vista Home Basic, or even Windows Vista Home Premium. So you have to do it The Hard Way: either implement one set of functions in terms of the other (Wine or Cygwin) or make a generic API implemented in terms of both (wxWidgets or Allegro) in order to get a program to compile on both.
  7. Re:twm support by makomk · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wine is very much dependent on a good window manager to work properly. ISTR one of the developers mentioning that using an unsuitable/poor window manager actually caused some of the tests to fail, since it affected window behaviour.