At 16 Apr 2002 09:42:50 +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: > According to the notes recently on slug wine does not support directx so > it probably will not support games very well.
wine does directx fine (can even use DGA). it does not do direct3d (but i think the (commercial/kind-of-proprietry/interestingly-licensed) winex stuff might?). directsound works (at least i get sound out of directx games fine). directplay doesn't. with wine, its really a matter of whether someone with enough knowledge and persistance has tried your program before. there is so many win32 system calls (and other related "system" dlls), that the functions are implemented as needed. eg: total anhiliation and star craft run perfectly fine - i had to do a ~3 line patch to get heroes of might and magic 3 to run. the rule of thumb with wine compatibility is: just try it and see. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
