Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 23:17:50 -0700 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Age of Empires on FreeBSD --- Possible? Message-ID: <200410092317.50464.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <49461.81.84.174.8.1097270437.squirrel@81.84.174.8> References: <49461.81.84.174.8.1097270437.squirrel@81.84.174.8>
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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
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