starcraft

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 08:12:29PM -0400, Chris Aitken wrote:
> 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?).

Well starcraft is a rather old 2D only game so there are chances wine
would run it.  And being 2D only vmware running it should actually be
quite reasonable too, assuming you have a reasonably powerful machine
(vmware needs lots of ram since you need enough ram for both OSs).

> 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?

Cedega seemed to not play nice with the wine project and just forked off
and did their own thing.  I won't support them whether their project
works or not.  Such behaviour should not be encouraged in my opinion.

Of course the simple solution is to just setup dual boot and boot the OS
that runs your programs.

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Len Sorensen
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