Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:10:48 +0300 (EEST) From: Radu MOLNAR <taipan@hawat.cc.ubbcluj.ro> To: David Jenkins <david.jenkins@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Age of Empires on FreeBSD --- Possible? Message-ID: <20041011120711.A47482@hawat.cc.ubbcluj.ro> In-Reply-To: <9395922d041010034935095fa1@mail.gmail.com> References: <49461.81.84.174.8.1097270437.squirrel@81.84.174.8> <9395922d041010034935095fa1@mail.gmail.com>
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Wll, maybe if development on wine for FBSD would have stopped things would have been different. In my office we have linux and FreeBSD workstations. I run FreeBSD but my friends have linux. Because of that they can play about anything using winex (Broodwar, Counterstrike, Rise of Nations etc) and i cant join because wine on FreeBSD doesnt work too well. Radu On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, David Jenkins wrote: > On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 23:17:50 -0700, Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> wrote: >> On Friday 08 October 2004 02:20 pm, "Hugo Silva" <klr@6s-gaming.com> 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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