From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 10 8:29:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E1F37B60F for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 08:29:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from charles_dinkey@non.hp.com) Received: from xboibrg2.boi.hp.com (xboibrg2.boi.hp.com [15.56.8.172]) by palrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C721E6DE for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 08:29:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by xboibrg2.boi.hp.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 10 May 2000 09:29:04 -0600 Message-ID: From: "DINKEY,GENE (Non-HP-Loveland,ex1)" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: vmware vs wine Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 09:29:02 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>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 message