linux distro runs W98 games?

[DANIEL GARDINER]

--- JoeHill <joehill-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:08:08 -0500
> Chris Aitken got an infinite number of monkeys to
> type out:
> 
> > I don't know that it would be great for games
> anyway. Is 
> > there a distro that has successfully integrated
> wine or winex or 
> > whatever so it can run Windows programs? I guess
> they are older Windos 
> > programs because my son, for example, still wants
> W98SE instead of newer 
> > OSs. He says his programs won't even run on XP.
> 
> Well, it wasn't *perfect*, but for the amount of
> money (about $10), it
> certainly was worth it: cedega. Yep, winex
> repackaged, and maybe not in the
> most ethical way, certainly not open. But I could
> not resist, and I tried it,
> and it bloody well worked. I was running everything
> from Halflife to Medal of
> Honour to almost...Halflife 2 (whereupon my hardware
> gave out).
> 
> Cedega will run a great deal of Windows games, is
> very cheap for say, one or
> two months subscription, which at least will get you
> up and running, then you
> really need only pay when you absolutely have to
> have the latest update, which
> I never did for about 7 months. YMMV ;-)

  Be careful with the video card though; cedega
doesn't work as well with ATI as it does with Nvidia
(which is probably due more to ATI than transgaming,
but that's a different thread).

  Codeweavers have recently started supporting games,
you could also give them a try (apparently World of
Warcraft is already supported).  An article I read
recently suggested supporting them because they do
release their code updates to the Wine project.

  You could also try Wine first and see if that works
for anything, especially if they are older games that
don't require the fancy video cards.  Can't remember
when it came out but Icewind Dale runs just fine under
Wine on my machine.


Daniel
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