Awesome to hear. I'd like to pick his brain on how he has some of the games configured...as far as the "cons": Wine can be fooled into mounting ISOs as CDROM drives by first mounting them as loop devices under fstab and then adding them using winecfg. :) Who needs daemon tools? On Jan 8, 2008 3:41 PM, Patrick C wrote: > I just thought I'd throw this out there, since it's related... > > I just threw a LAN party on the 31st with about 18 people. One of those > people ran Linux (Ubuntu 7.10) for the reason that he couldn't install > Windows on his computer. He said that his Windows XP license is an upgrade > from a Windows 98 license which is also an upgrade license, and nothing > older than that recognizes his CD-ROM drive. He already had most of the > games we were going to play (some recent, some older: Counter-Strike: > Source, Warcraft III, Starcraft, Age of Empires III) working with Wine. For > the rest (or ones that were simply buggy) I threw my copy of Cedega on there > and pointed them to his Wine directories for the shortcuts, and the games > ran and performed fairly well. > > The cons were not really show-stoppers. A minor performance loss and a > slightly more complicated installation process. The things he missed out on > were tools like Daemon Tools and Daemonscript (which I combined so nobody > would have to pass around CDs)--not the games themselves. That said, real > Linux games hardly exist outside of Id Software's stuff, and the selection > of Windows games guaranteed to work with Cedega/Wine is somewhat small, > including only the biggest titles. > > On Dec 27, 2007 9:43 PM, JT Moree wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Judd Pickell wrote: > > > Sorry, but this argument falls on its face when you consider the cost > > > of the console and quality of the game. When a console costs as much > > > as the upgrades to a PC, I hardly call that being better. Especially > > > since the cost of the games is almost the same. > > > > > > You seem to miss my point entirely. I disagree with your arguments but > > we're quite off topic I think. > > > > Let me recap: > > > > Chris made a point about gaming on windows being better than other PC > > platforms. I did NOT disagree with this statement--in fact I agreed > > with it. But I went a step further and made a point that gaming on > > Windows stinks compared to consoles. > > > > I then gave reasons why PC gaming (Windows, LInux, MAc) is never as > > simple and easy as a console. I am the one who gets calls from friends > > and family to help with their stupid PC problems. I"ll be happy to > > refer them to you if you disagree with my assessment. ;) > > > > I ended by saying people who want to play games should buy consoles (so > > that they dont' call ME when they have problems.) > > > > You seemed to reply with something along the lines of: consoles are > > lower quality and more expensive to upgrade than PCs. Again, I disagree > > with this but it's OK to disagree with each other. > > > > Then you proceeded to explain why LInux has few commercial games. Yes I > > agree with all of that and it only reinforces my point. > > > > I don't think there's anything constructive to say here. I suppose you > > can reply if I've misunderstood your response but is this discussion > > serving any purpose? I'm regretting that I replied to the OP. > > > > - -- > > JT Morée > > PC Xperience, Inc. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > iD8DBQFHdH7u1JwGi/ukQqERAtU7AKDthXX218ZAhmllf28cY9NvMmoafgCfXBk1 > > XLfYN5Eh//purtT2U0ETaDE= > > =OpL4 > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > -- > > This message has been scanned for viruses and > > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > > believed to be clean. > > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > -- > Amarok: Rediscover your music. > -- http://amarok.kde.org > > Sabayon Linux: Cutting Gentoo's edge. > -- http://www.sabayonlinux.org > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- "A man is defined by the questions that he asks; and the way he goes about finding the answers to those questions is the way he goes through life." --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss