They could at least release porting patches, like iD Software and Epic Games do. If these two companies are smaller and release for FREE the ported binaries, why wouldn't EA do? Do you pay for the DOOM3 linux binaries in iD page? Do you pay more for unreal 2003/2004 because there are linux binaries in the instalation cds?
Have you ever read this petition to EA? as you can see, we don't like to pay for software, but if thers a good comercial game, we will pay, if it runs on linux. the wine project (and its gaming son, the cedega project) is doing a great job by implementing win32 api on linux, but the 64bit software are coming. if its being hard to implement a 32bit api, what about a 64bit one? I think the softhouses (specially gamehouses) WILL port their apps, because linux is really growing. its getting a lot friendly, KDE and GNOME are doing great job, new friendy distros are made all the time.
and there are port helpers, just like Winelib.
I agree to you. Let's use Linux as an example. It's quickly growing, and we see more ported application as it grows. Some softhouses (specially game softhouses) use Linux (instead of UNIX or even Window$) to make its apps, and then port them to Windows. id Software (DOOM, Quake, ect) is a good example, releases the demos of its games FIRST on linux (windows demo is released after, they have to port the game:^). Actually, Windows still reins, but its empire is being scrathced by UNIXes (Linux/*BSD), but the softhouses aren't really interested on Macs, because its restricted to some people that needs its multimedia capabilities.
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They could at least release porting patches, like iD Software and Epic Games do. If these two companies are smaller and release for FREE the ported binaries, why wouldn't EA do? Do you pay for the DOOM3 linux binaries in iD page? Do you pay more for unreal 2003/2004 because there are linux binaries in the instalation cds?
Have you ever read this petition to EA? as you can see, we don't like to pay for software, but if thers a good comercial game, we will pay, if it runs on linux. the wine project (and its gaming son, the cedega project) is doing a great job by implementing win32 api on linux, but the 64bit software are coming. if its being hard to implement a 32bit api, what about a 64bit one? I think the softhouses (specially gamehouses) WILL port their apps, because linux is really growing. its getting a lot friendly, KDE and GNOME are doing great job, new friendy distros are made all the time. and there are port helpers, just like Winelib.
I agree to you. Let's use Linux as an example. It's quickly growing, and we see more ported application as it grows. Some softhouses (specially game softhouses) use Linux (instead of UNIX or even Window$) to make its apps, and then port them to Windows. id Software (DOOM, Quake, ect) is a good example, releases the demos of its games FIRST on linux (windows demo is released after, they have to port the game :^). Actually, Windows still reins, but its empire is being scrathced by UNIXes (Linux/*BSD), but the softhouses aren't really interested on Macs, because its restricted to some people that needs its multimedia capabilities.
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--Sorry for my English.. I'm Brazilian