CrossOver Games for FreeBSD

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."

Comments

Re:The REAL announcement

[RiotingPacifist]

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!

Re:Windows User

[TheRealMindChild]

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.