linux distro runs W98 games?

[Daniel Gardiner]

--- Chris Aitken <chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Sorry for the top post. I thought I'd include the
> whole email as this 
> thread is so old. My FC Hardware Browser reports my
> card as 82815 CGC 
> [Chipset Graphics Controller] Manufacturer; Intel
> Corp. Driver: Intel 
> 815. Is this card likelty to work well with cedega
> in light of the 
> information in this email? Or would it work better
> on my daughter's 
> machaine (Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP.
> Manufacturer: Unknown. 
> Driver: Card: Matrox Millenium G400)?
> 
> Chris

  You might want to try asking in the Cedega forums at
http://www.cedega.com/forum/; I've seen a few posts
there from people with Intel cards.  It probaby
depends on what your video card card do under Linux
and what the game requires.  If your card doesn't
support 3d acceleration or pixel shading then you may
not be able to play World of Warcraft or Half-life 2,
but something like Where in the World is Carmen
Sandiego would probably work.

  Both Cedega and Wine maintain lists of
games/applications and how well they work, at
http://games.cedega.com/gamesdb/ and
http://appdb.winehq.org/.  You might want to check
those first to see if either is known to support what
you want to run.

  Xandros is the only distribution that I know of with
the intent of running Windows applications, which they
do with the Codeweavers product. Codeweavers also has
a 30-day trial of CrossOver Linux if you want to try
it out.  I believe that most distros will have a
package for Wine in the repositories that you can
install with minimum fuss.  
 

Daniel

> DANIEL GARDINER wrote:
> 
> >--- 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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