Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 09:29:02 -0600 From: "DINKEY,GENE (Non-HP-Loveland,ex1)" <charles_dinkey@non.hp.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: vmware vs wine Message-ID: <F341E03C8ED6D311805E00902761278C53136C@xfc04.fc.hp.com>
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>>Any thoughts on which one might be better for simply graphics games on >>windows? I'd like to play an old lucasfilm game that uses DirectX and >>sound, and i can't decide which emulator to use. I had problems with Wine, but that was also under Linux. It seams that project is very much in beta (but they have come a very long way). I never tried to run any games, at the time I don't think they had Direct X support in the code. I was able to get MS Word 97 to run "somewhat" stable, as long as all you wanted to do is type and save. I will be getting a copy of vmware sometime in the next week or so...I'll let you know how it works. I have a feeling that it's going to be a resource hog since it creates a separate virtual machine complete with an Award BIOS and everything... We'll see Gene To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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