le mer 21-11-2001 à 04:43, Chris Edwards a écrit : > There's a new wine snapshot out... > > diff:s http://www.winehq.com/News/ds20011108.txt
I just wonder some things : + If Mandrake want to do a special gaming distribution, why do they not provide Loki games or demos ? A distribution with WineX games ( i.e that run with wineX ) and Loki demos. They may have a deal with Loki and preinstall Loki Tools. Better, with Loki they may develop a special portal where mandrake gaming users will be able to buy games with some special prices. I Transgaming port more games, mdksoft may develop the same thing for them. Of course mdksoft may have a % on all that. Unless this distribution include this kind of properties, this distribution is ... uninteresting. I can dl and easily configure Wine/WineX ( ./tools/wineinstall ) and so play some games, and The Sims ... if I had the windows version I will not want to buy another one or try to launch it via wine. + The Sims, it's a old game. They'd better try to make a 100% working Starcraft/Broodwar/HL/CS/Baldur's Gate. Here you have some great hits and I think that this games are widely use by Linux user that want to play games. On top of that they don't require high framerate ( unless for HL+CS maybe ). + If they can do a special distribution with a working wine, I just hope we will have the ability ro have this in 8.2 and other standard release. Here is my point : People that used to begin with Mandrake used to dl it or buy it in a Magazine. They are bnot going to take the Gaming edition as they are not sure of its capatibilities and maybe want to do something else ( just learn Linux, server/router, etc ... ). When they begin to use Linux and maybe enjoy it, at this time Games questions come. But they have the normal Pack ( not the Gaming one ). If they could have the ability to just install wine mdk rpm and have a working wine to launch some games and application it will be best. Of course we could find and other way to do it. The normal mdk pack use wine and is able to configure it. No problem concerning the configuration. So they can launch some games ( Diablo II in software works well, Baldur's Gate II in OpenGL too, and HL+CS too ). The mdk pack use Winex and is able to configure it. it's better because of the Aladin license of Transgaming ( I think it's no longer Aladdin license but I don't want to check ). So they can launch more games. Mandrake may develop a tool to configure wine with a GUI ( a little bit like the Codeweaver one ) because sometimes users change windows partitions names ( use /mnt/windows instead of /mnt/win_c, etc ... ). So they are able to easily custom/tune their setup. yes I know it's easy to modify by hand ( I do it ), but mdk aims to provide GUI tools to con,figure things even if the configuration is ... trivial by hand. I'm thinking about a tool that can scan my windows partitions ( if I ask it of course ) and set the PATH of all the application it know it can launch well . For example Starcraft is in /mnt/win_d/Program\ Files/Starcraft for me. The tool by scanning all the windows partition may just look for Starcraft ( the scan may ignore casse as it may be starcraft ). I wonder if this tool may not be able to set binfmt so that when I hit starcraft.exe it launches wine. To do this the PATH of stacraft must be set in ~/.wine/config and binfmt set to support wine executable. It's a killer feature ! And last but not least it solves partially the big problem : ok now I like Linux but what about my games/apps ? For some games the probem will be solved. -- http://perso.wanadoo.fr/linux_wizard/index.html - Un seul etre vous manque et tout est depeuple. -- Alphonse de Lamartine, Meditations
