Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Jan 2007 08:07:24 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Gaming Interface |
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 04:16:51PM +1000, Trent Waddington wrote: > On 1/9/07, Dirk <d_i_r_k_@gmx.net> wrote: > >I tried to get WoW installed with Cedega 5.2.9 for two days now. > > > >Cedega is not a replacement for ports. And it does not encourage ports. > > We're totally off topic now, but what the hell.. You wanna encourage > ports? Write a step by step guide on how to most easily port a modern > game from Windows to Linux. My suggestion would be to use winelib and > include all the workarounds needed to make the game compatible with > the DirectX support in wine. > > As far as I'm aware, there is no such guide, so if a games company was > to decide to port their game to Linux (for whatever whacky reason) > they wouldn't even know how much work they have ahead of them.
It does already exist: http://winehq.org/site/docs/winelib-guide/index
But as Picasa has shown, using Wine is usually equally good.
> Trent
cu Adrian
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