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post #1 of 12
2/24/05 at 1:28pm
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Hi, Can you please tell me if there is a freeware game emulator that works with Mandrake 10.2 beta, XORG 10.2 and the latest ATI LINUX drivers. I wanna play on it UT2k4, CS:source and WOW.
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post #2 of 12
2/24/05 at 2:05pm
UT 2004 has a linux installer. You dont need to emulate it
i play it daily
the linux installer is in the first cd
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post #3 of 12
2/24/05 at 10:39pm
I thought I heard something about CS on linux, either natively or through Wine(Wine Is Not an Emulator)

Wine is what most people use to run Windows programs on Linux, though some things are only so complete on it, they are ever striving for the 1.0 release by constantly playing catchup All in all though it does a decent job, check the AppDB to see what is supported, or known to be supported or not supported(http://appdb.winehq.org)

WOW though I am not to sure about, check Wine, but dont hold your breath unfortunatly.

Seablade
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post #4 of 12
2/24/05 at 11:10pm
the new WineX can run over 300 windows games respectibly. i am yet to build my ATI drivers (or even Nvidia on my desktop) to try it.

there are a few good native linux games:
UT2k4
America's Army
Fakk 2
Soldier of Fortune

there is a whole site on running HL(1) and CS (1.5/6) under wine. just google "HL wine linux"
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post #5 of 12
2/25/05 at 12:43am
Hmm I just checked out the WineX/Cedega site, not bad work there.

My question though is do they still support Wine at all(Considering they got half their code base from them)? I would be all in support of them and would even probably pay for it once I get a supported 3d card if they did, but if they dont I am not so sure I would.

Seablade
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post #6 of 12
2/25/05 at 3:24am
AFAIK Transgaminig (makers of WineX/Cedega) dont contribute code back to the wine project. They do have most of the source open and aviable on a CVS. There are some execption like the CD Copy protection stuff that they've licenced from their respective creators. Also I think they have limited CVS to developers. I know gentoo doesnt have ebuild in their portage tree anymore because of something like that.
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post #7 of 12
2/25/05 at 10:39pm
Check this out:

http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20...oc_chap1_sect4

Transgaming asked gentoo to remove the ebuilds because they did not want people to be able to compile/install it at the run of a single command.

Regards,

zakaluka2.
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post #8 of 12
2/26/05 at 12:21am
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Originally Posted by abf
the new WineX can run over 300 windows games respectibly. i am yet to build my ATI drivers (or even Nvidia on my desktop) to try it.

there are a few good native linux games:
UT2k4
America's Army
Fakk 2
Soldier of Fortune

there is a whole site on running HL(1) and CS (1.5/6) under wine. just google "HL wine linux"
I'd add Neverwinter Nights to that list.

Regards,

zakaluka2.
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post #9 of 12
2/26/05 at 1:43am
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Originally Posted by mjolnir
AFAIK Transgaminig (makers of WineX/Cedega) dont contribute code back to the wine project. They do have most of the source open and aviable on a CVS. There are some execption like the CD Copy protection stuff that they've licenced from their respective creators. Also I think they have limited CVS to developers. I know gentoo doesnt have ebuild in their portage tree anymore because of something like that.
Hmm not real sure how I feel on that. Gonna have to think about it a bit. DOnt have a problem really with the asking not to be in the portage tree and such, it is more the not contributing back to wine that bothers me a bit.

Seablade
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post #10 of 12
2/26/05 at 2:05am
as far as i know you have to pay for Cadega RPM and Deb files. however there are manuals available online on how to set it up using the freely downloadable CVS
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post #11 of 12
2/26/05 at 4:32am
Although there are manuals available, such as http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/...p?articleid=45, the copy protection stuff is not in CVS. This is what you need to play most recent games. So, while Cedega can be used simply from CVS, you will be restricted to games at least a few years old.

Regards,

zakaluka2.
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post #12 of 12
2/26/05 at 12:55pm
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Originally Posted by abf
as far as i know you have to pay for Cadega RPM and Deb files. however there are manuals available online on how to set it up using the freely downloadable CVS

the cost is $15 only and its worth it imo
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