From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 10 06:17:00 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 1D4D016A4CE for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 06:17:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9721D43D39 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 06:16:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krinklyfig@spymac.com) Received: from unknown (HELO smogmonster.com) (krinklyfig@pacbell.net@67.116.52.185 with plain) by smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Oct 2004 06:16:59 -0000 From: Joshua Tinnin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 23:17:50 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <49461.81.84.174.8.1097270437.squirrel@81.84.174.8> In-Reply-To: <49461.81.84.174.8.1097270437.squirrel@81.84.174.8> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410092317.50464.krinklyfig@spymac.com> Subject: Re: Age of Empires on FreeBSD --- Possible? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: krinklyfig@spymac.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 06:17:00 -0000 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