[luau] WineX rocks

[MonMotha]

You do know that UT has native bins which will probably work a little 
better than emulating a foreign API...

And normal wine runs starcraft (almost) flawlessly...

Dunno about myst though :)

--MonMotha

The penguin wrote:
> WineX does rock!
> here are some games I got working on my computer:
> Unreal Tournament
> StarCraft
> Myst
> 
> I also got other winblowze applications running such as my z80 assembly
> comiler.I really enjoy playing the Unreal Tournament game since it ran more smoothly
> on linux than on winbloze.  Windows was also missing a DLL file for this
> game while Linux wasn't
> If I can sneak the winex 2.0 from warren than i think I should be able to
> play MaxPayne as well.......
> 
> 
> 
>>   While waiting for various lengthy disk and memory tests to finish on
>>
>>a client's unruly PC, I decided to take Warren's advice and subscribe
>>to  WineX rather than buy it shrink-wrapped.  I am rather amazed and
>>excited  at the results.  Various Windoze software is rated on the
>>Transgaming  <www.transgaming.com> site according to how well it runs
>>on WineX.  I  snagged the demo of Diablo II, one of the few with a 5
>>out of 5 rating,  and gave it a fling.  It ran absolutely flawlessly.
>>I _did_ tinker with  the setup of WineX a bit, but no more than you
>>have to with the regular  Wine, which I use to run GoldMine at work.
>>When you consider that this  runs under DirectX, the performance is
>>truly worthy of accolades.  This  could really open up Linux to a lot
>>of otherwise mesmerized evil-empire  serfs who see no way to free
>>themselves of their micro$oft shackles.
>>
>>   It's a bit odd that I have never played Diablo on its intended
>>platform, but now may buy it for exclusive execution under Linux.  This
>> kind of thing must make Monkey-boy Balmer utterly livid.
>>
>>-Jeff
>>
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