Hmm, talks on kernel compilations, interesting idea :)<br><br>Also, LSF, again interesting :P<br><br>I think there's just so many possibilities that I'd agree, maybe the LUG does need a little more... direction.<br>
<br>I don't know, I'm just excited generally about this! (Can you tell? lol)<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 31/03/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">James Le Cuirot</b> <<a href="mailto:chewi@aura-online.co.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">chewi@aura-online.co.uk
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I think many Linux users have a Cedega subscription but not so many<br>admit it in a hurry. It was controversial to begin with and it's even<br>more controversial now. They used to have a strong case with things like
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Steam and World of Warcraft but now regular Wine can run both of those<br>just fine. Cedega is based off extremely old Wine code and the<br>differences between them are really starting to show. One example is 2D<br>graphics. Red Alert 2 runs far better on Wine than it does on Cedega.
<br>Another example is the registry code. It's been totally rewritten<br>but Cedega still uses (and probably always will use) the old code. It<br>fails to read the registry settings saved by Black & White, meaning
<br>that you can't change the details settings and subsequently, I can't<br>turn off the effect that's making the game run like a dog every time<br>the sun comes into view. Admittedly, Wine doesn't run the game at all
<br>but it does manage to read the registry when you run the configuration<br>program. With so many more games now working in regular Wine, it won't<br>be long before I, and probably many others, decide to cancel our
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subscriptions. The copy protection alone won't be enough to justify it<br>because a quick visit to <a href="http://megagames.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">megagames.com</a>
almost always solves that<br>problem. Cracking the games isn't an ideal solution but it's better
<br>than wasting money on a subscription.<br><br>Okay rant over. Not meaning to spread FUD or anything, this is just my<br>opinion on the matter. (-;<br><br>Chewi<br><br><br>On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:19:53 +0800<br>"Nistur Effee" <
<a href="mailto:nistur@karate.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">nistur@karate.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> Like I said, I will do something if people want, I am by no means an
<br>> expert at Cedega, or anything Linux related for that matter really.
<br>> But if people think it will help then I suppose I could. However I<br>> think it would be beneficial for someone to have a system with a<br>> problem to bring it in as the same problem is unlikely to be fixed in
<br>> exactly the same way on two computers. Obviously easiest would be a<br>> laptop. Also, I am lead to believe WoW works quite happily off wine<br>> on it's own, without using WineX/Cedega. I can't say I've tried, nor
<br>> am likely to as, being the poor student I am, can't be bothered to<br>> pay monthly fees. Oh, and all information for installing most games<br>> under cedega is linked to in their games database.<br><br>
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