starcraft

[Chris Aitken]

I want to put linux on my son's computer. The bottom line is that he be 
able to play Starcraft. I know the things out there for Windows programs 
include winex (incl. cedega transgaming), CodeWeavers, Win4Lin and 
VMWare. I don't mind paying for all this to work. Although I was proud 
to be able to get my emu 1212 m pci soundcard working under linux I 
think this would be a harder task (maybe beyond me). Some of these 
things (winex et al.) I believe are kind of in bed with a couple of OSs 
(linspire? SuSE?).

I have read some unfavourable comments about linspire/cedega that you 
have to pay, pay, pay, for a questionable product (not to mention it's 
not GPL correct). Another sticking point for my son is whether or not 
he'll be able to play Startcraft  /online./ He says there are extra 
software bits to download for that - he's assuming these have not been 
ported to linux. Cedega guarantees Starcraft but they don't mention 
playing online. I've been able to do most things I've set out to do on 
linux (in large part by the grace of this mailing list) but what are my 
chances of success with this project?

Chris
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists