[plug] cedega ?

[Shannon Carver]

And the Loki Games selection, I've found X2: The Threat quite good, as well.

You're right about the upcoming Vista/DirectX battle though, which always
brings me back to thinking that although projects like Wine & Cedega are a
positive for Linux/BSD we're still not at the root of the problem.  It's
been said time and time again, but unfortunately we can't just keep
compensating for Windows Changes.

I've even heard people directly opposing Cedega/Wine before, as it doesn't
promote publishers to make Linux compatible games, as they don't need to
because the guys at Cedega will do it for them.  It's a bit of a double
edged sword though.  I sit on the fence on that one, I'd rather be able to
play my Windows Games, if possible.

I'd be interested to know how much revenue someone like ID or Epic have
received from making their games available for Linux and MacOS (??). You'd
think, even if just 10% of your revenue was from people who didn't use the
mainstream operating system it'd be worth pushing further development for
games that were capable of being played on many different OS's.  The way I
see it is Linux is getting a lot more attention recently (thanks to
Ubuntu/SuSe etc), if your one of the only few game makers making new games
that are guaranteed to work on the users Operating System (iD), independent
of Cedega/Wine you'd generate sales anyway. I think....

Of course, I have no idea on the real statistics on that, purely
speculation.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
> Of Senectus .
> Sent: Tuesday, 8 August 2006 9:36 AM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] cedega ?
> 
> On 08/08/06, Shannon Carver <shannon.carver at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Like Evert said, Kudos to ID Games and Unreal Tournament creator
> (Epic??)
> > as well as the other producers making games with OpenGL (making the
> > wine/cedega process very easy), like World of Warcraft.
> >
> > The first time I used Cedega was a few years ago (v2xx) and things were
> a
> > lot harder than they are now.  What used to be a lot of stuffing around
> with
> > manual edited config files and fake Windows, Windows/System, Program
> Files
> > directories is now a lot easier.
> 
> Another thing to consider is that with the release of Vista and the
> new DirectX on top of that, writing a copy of Cedega or Wine to be
> compatible with that level of integration is going to be _very_ slow
> and problematic.
> 
> The Transgaming guys have been slowing down more and more in the past
> year with their releases, making the value of my subscription less
> equatable every month.
> 
> Personally I thing the Linux Gaming industry is holding it breath,
> waiting to see how much the demand picks up. So I'm throwing my lot in
> with them.
> I find the value of www.tuxgames.com to be pretty good (some games you
> can even download immediately rather than wait for the CD to arrive in
> the mail! ).
> I'll be buying Cold War and Dominions This month. (I've been waiting
> for Cold War to come out for _ages_ :-) )
> 
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