Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 24.154.64.134]
on March 14, 2008 02:06 AM
Nice idea but I agree with some of the others here. The programs never worked well to begin with and failed in running other games. They claim that World of Warcraft can run but lets be honest here WoW was released with a BSD version for Macintosh. BSD versions of the game have existed since release so it can run on mostly any BSD platform. Further more they don't claim that the WoW Windows version works, in my experience I have only seen Wine run old DOS games and barely function when running Microsoft DX based games. I would still like to try it but don't believe the hype and claims nothing can run perfectly on a different platform without stealing the core of original platform. A great example of this is EMU games, and SNK or SEGA game made for the console runs on some EMU's but runs a hell of alot better on a EMU using a BIOS hacked out of the original game console platform. Personally I don't see a 100% way of solving this problem unless Play on Linux took the Windows Kernel and using that as main center of operations but instead they use Wine which is less then perfect.
My conclusion is that this may be nice to play all those older games but may lack the general power to run some of the newer games. I honestly don't see Tomb Raider Anniversary, Hellgate, Aion, Dirt or any other bleeding edge game running on this. And if it did run on it I don't see it running stable at all. Personally I say its better to just dual boot, use Windows for games and Linux or BSD for Apps. This is the best solution and ensures your 100% reliability on your applications.
Remember back in the day it was DOS & UNIX/Linux games & Windows for apps. its just the times have changed and the roles of both OS's have changed. Tis time for everyone to change too, I think working on make the OS better and easier to program and easier to use instead of trying to adapt a less then perfect technology to a OS that still needs work to become mainstream. Basically do what Microsoft did to make their OS uber user friendly so that idiots can use it. Then and only then once you win the morons of the world you can win the market and have games designed for only the OS you prefer.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 24.154.64.134] on March 14, 2008 02:06 AMMy conclusion is that this may be nice to play all those older games but may lack the general power to run some of the newer games. I honestly don't see Tomb Raider Anniversary, Hellgate, Aion, Dirt or any other bleeding edge game running on this. And if it did run on it I don't see it running stable at all. Personally I say its better to just dual boot, use Windows for games and Linux or BSD for Apps. This is the best solution and ensures your 100% reliability on your applications.
Remember back in the day it was DOS & UNIX/Linux games & Windows for apps. its just the times have changed and the roles of both OS's have changed. Tis time for everyone to change too, I think working on make the OS better and easier to program and easier to use instead of trying to adapt a less then perfect technology to a OS that still needs work to become mainstream. Basically do what Microsoft did to make their OS uber user friendly so that idiots can use it. Then and only then once you win the morons of the world you can win the market and have games designed for only the OS you prefer.
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