starcraft

[Jamon Camisso]

On September 25, 2007 06:51:19 pm Tyler Aviss wrote:
> > 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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Jamon
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