From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 10 10:50:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E71D316A4CE for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:50:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C1A843D1D for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:50:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david.jenkins@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 73so329697rnl for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 03:49:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.39.1.30 with SMTP id d30mr839550rni; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 03:49:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.208.74 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 03:49:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9395922d041010034935095fa1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 11:49:54 +0100 From: David Jenkins To: krinklyfig@spymac.com In-Reply-To: <200410092317.50464.krinklyfig@spymac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <49461.81.84.174.8.1097270437.squirrel@81.84.174.8> <200410092317.50464.krinklyfig@spymac.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Age of Empires on FreeBSD --- Possible? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: David Jenkins List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:50:01 -0000 On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 23:17:50 -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > On Friday 08 October 2004 02:20 pm, "Hugo Silva" wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I really need to get Age of Empires II - The Conquerors Expansion working > > on my (only workstation) FreeBSD box. > > > > I don't have windows anymore and I'll not switch back to be able to play, > > but I'd like to know if it is possible at all to run the game on BSD. > > Perhaps winex ? I heard it is compiling OK now with several patches.. > > Well, this probably isn't the answer you wanted to hear, but personally I > still keep a Windows partition for this explicit reason (games and sound > production). There are some games which run fine on some sort of emulator, > but I'd rather not have to deal with a whole bunch of extra stuff to do > something I can achieve more easily and with better results by using the > intended OS. I don't like Windows, but some of the best games will only run > on it. It's sort of a pain to reboot just to play Medieval: Total War, for > instance, but once the game is over I can reboot into fbsd and have my > workstation back, which I sort of like better than having a one-size-fits-all > setup. In fact, I'll probably end up building a separate box with a Win > installation just for gaming and sound, so I can concentrate on the hardware > that will work best for a workstation and some servers using FreeBSD. > > - jt I tend to agree with this view - i.e. use the right tool for the right job. ``Usually'' this means using Windows for games ... Just my $0.02. Hope this helps. David