starcraft

[Chris Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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).
>   
256 MB RAM - I don't think that will cut it for VMWare...

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Chris
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