[Leaplist] WINE (Was: More Anti-Linux Propaganda from MicroSuck and Worst Buy)

[Kevin Korb]

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I gave up on it back then too.

However, when I was setting up a Ubuntu desktop for my grandmother late
last year I gave it a try again.  There were some freebie Windows games
that she used to play on Win98 and I wanted to try to make them work on
the new system.  Out of 6 games only 3 of them worked at all and one of
them was almost unplayable.

BTW, the best one of them that I got to work was: Cubemaster Gold which is
a very good Tetris remake.  It is especially good if you have a collection
of old tracked music to add to it.  Here is the site for it: 
http://w1.435.telia.com/~u43509647/

Your xterm will be filled with errors and it will even throw two popup
errors about sound when you first launch it but it does work and is
playable and that is about all you can hope for out of wine.


On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:32:29 -0400
Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com> wrote:
> Derek Konigsberg wrote:
> > I can't speak for Ventrilo, but WoW falls into the small category of:
> > "Application someone put considerable specific effort into Wine to
> > make it work."
> > 
> > Also in this category would be some outdated version of MS Office, and 
> > just enough other "seed" applications that it allows many Linux 
> > advocates to falsely claim that "Wine runs most Windows apps".
> > 
> > Sometime, if anyone is curious, try running some serious Windows app 
> > *other* than WoW or an old version of MS Office, and see how far you 
> > get. But launch it from a terminal window.  Then, look at all the
> > "stub" and "fixme" messages flying by.  Then, go to Microsoft's
> > website and look up all the API calls that Wine didn't implement yet
> > or stubbed out.  You'll notice that they generally date back to
> > Windows 2000.  And its currently 2009.
> 
> No kidding.  I gave up on wine back in about 2003 or 2004.  It never ran 
> anything outside of specific applications that it was specifically tuned 
> for.  In the age of cheap virtualization, it hardly matters anymore, 
> even without a dedicated physical box for Windows to run on...
> 
> 
> 


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