starcraft

[Tyler Aviss]

> On 9/25/07, JoeHill <joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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?).
> >
> > 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?
>
> I have never played starcraft (though now I'm kinda curious), but I wanted to
> throw in another 'try wine'.
>
> The latest wine is very very good. 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.
>
> 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.
>
> --
> JoeHill
> ++++++++++++++++++++
> Fry: "I'm not prejudiced."
> Bender: "Ah, save it for the cross-burning, Adolf."
>
>

Hey Joe,


Did you have to do anything to strip copy-protection out of other
games (especially the original-disc-required ones) or did they work
just fine without doing that? I haven't tried vanilla wine for games
in awhile (well, haven't played many games in awhile actually)
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