my sons and i also play D2 LOD; i've tried to find out if blizzard was ever going to port to linux and was told that for all intents and purposes, Diablo is a dead end. whoever bought blizzard is intent on focusing on the other games and isn't putting any effort at all into diablo any more other than maintenance.
i've tried repeatedly running it under winex but it always runs slow on my machine; i'm convinced that's more a question of the hardware than winex, due to other problems i keep running up against. but with winex3.0 i have finally got it working. --- Original Message --- From: "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific) >On Thursday 19 June 2003 08:55 am, JoeHill wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 08:47:53 -0400 >> >> "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: >> > WineX >> >> fsck WineX! >> >> er, IMHO. > >Well...I've heard a lot of pro and con arguments about WineX. I have to admit >that I myself have mixed feelings. One argument goes that because a >particular game will work under WineX, that game manufacturer won't port to >Linux. Transgaming argues that they are making much easier for companies to >port to Linux because of their experience. > >As for myself, I don't own any Windows game that has a native Linux port - I >always buy native ports, if I have a choice. > >Now...how about Starcraft and Diablo2: LOD or Warcraft 3? From my >understanding of cosmic events - Blizzard says just plain no. My 2 sons love >these 3 games and want to play networked with me. So whats the choice for me >here? Just tell them too bad - sorry about your luck there? I could buy a >copy of WinXP, setup dual booting, then buy these Windows games. OR I could >use WineX to run these games under Linux and when I send in the warranty card >let them know that I'm running it under Linux, (my preferred OS) and please >consider future ports for this OS. > >I've actually had people tell me that its better to buy Windows and install it >to play Windows games than to use WineX...how can anyone reach that >conclusion? > >Personally, (and I don't want to hurt anyones' feelings here) I think thats >just universally dumb. > >and thats "IMHO".... <big grin> > >PS I live for the day when all games are simu-released for Linux and that >other OS (Or Linux only!) :-) > >-- > > /\ > Dark<>Lord > \/ >
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