starcraft

[Chris Aitken]

JoeHill wrote:

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> I have never played starcraft (though now I'm kinda curious), but I wanted to
> throw in another 'try wine'.
>   
Okay, I just installed it with yum install wine

I've never used wine - I'm reading the man page now. It looks like I 
just point wine to the executable of Startcraft..

Chris
> The latest wine is very very good.
[root at p733 chris]# wine --version
wine-0.9.44

>  It _finally_ let me play Halflife 2, which
> is can be a tough nut to crack because you cannot run it without this really
> irritating Steam program, and that was always the headache. As soon as I
> installed the most recent version of Wine, it ran almost flawlessly.
>   
That's encouraging.
> Cedega...well...a ways back I actually asked for support from them. All my games
> would run, including Quake 4, Doom 3 (natively of course), Medal of Honour,
> Halflife, etc., but HL2 would not. Steam kept complaining that my video card was
> not supported (GeForce 7600). The folks at Cedega could only advise me to get a
> better video card. Uuuuuh, yeah, sure.
>
> As far as I can tell, they're not terribly interested in anything but getting
> their subscription payment.
>   
That is the kind of thing I've been hearing. Sounds like bad karma to 
support them anyway.

Chris

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