Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th Jul 2005 13:21 UTC, submitted by Hugo
One of the things lacking on Linux is breadth of native commercial games. That's where emulating (or re-implementing) the host enviroment that the game was created for with Cedega (or WINE) comes in.
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2005-07-08
Quote: "Cedega is based on WINE from the BSD License days, so it doesnt have to contribute back, in an ideal world it would do."
Yes, I realise this. That's why I made my comment. This is why a BSD license is unnacceptable for Open Source software in my honest opinion. They take, they steal, they use, they abuse, and they don't give back. If Transgaming had started Cedega from scratch, they wouldn't be nowhere near where they are now. This is ultimately, why the GPL is a better license than the BSD license. It *makes* those who take give back to the community that gave to them. Share unto others.
Quote: "how did you figure that one out? if anything wouldn't "your" experiences make vendors more likely to port? as you say Cedega is crap and doesnt work."
Possibly, but not likely. Most people play the "latest and greatest". This is the stuff that Transgaming will work on. People who play older games generally will get screwed by such a system. At one time Diablo played perfectly I believe. Over time, Cedega has morphed, has been adjusted and modified to support newer games, at the expense of many older games. So, as a *potential* customer, I'm being treated with disdain for my choice in games being from older stock. This is not good.
Quote: "Point2Play does work"
Sure, it does. It loads fine. I can't do jack with it unless I email them to get a registration code to run it. Or something like that. I fired it up, had a quick look at it, spent a minute or so, no more and gave up on it and got rid of it. It's not a dependency issue etc. I'm smart enough to figure that out if I have to. But thanks for the suggestions, it could have been what you'd suggested, so better to mention it than presume.
Other than that, I find Cedega hangs. If I start Diablo with it, finish up and exit and go to start the game up again a bit later, it just purely hangs. I'm running on a 2.6 kernel (2.6.11-4), but I suspect it's not any issues with the kernel. I'm running a Libranet 3 GNU/Linux beta, which has been updated to Debian Sarge, with a select number of packages from testing, unstable and experimental. Interestingly, wine hasn't been working for a fair while on this system, I haven't tried tracing it yet, but I should most probably pull the finger out and strace it. Thanks for the prompt ;-)
I'm not a huge gamer, I'm very sporadic to say the least, so for myself investing money into something like Cedega it's not really worth it. I just don't play enough to justify the cost I think.
Dave