Windows Gaming WAS Is it yet possible to _really_ switch from Windows?

[Erich Newell]

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 <patrick.pxc.c at gmail.com> 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 <moreejt at pcxperience.com> wrote:
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> > 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.
> >
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> > JT Morée
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