[dundee] WINE, Cedega, & The Gamers

[Andrew Clayton]

On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:37:49 +0800, Nistur Effee wrote:

> I agree, different machines running a variety of programs is
> important. However we need to make it interesting. I currently have a
> selection of emulators running on my laptop and PC along with an XBox
> controller and modified cable (usb attachment) that runs on virtually
> all of them. Add to this Cedega and a couple of games and you have a
> decent games section. I'm not saying all students are gamers. But
> thinking about people I know who don't use linux, a lot of them are
> very attached to their games. If we could show that a lot of games
> are playable (any WoWers care to demo their skills there?) as well as
> there being programs to cater to virtually every need ("virtually"
> only put in because someone is likely to say that they have the need
> to launch nukes with a single button press or something) I think that
> it may be a success. I am not sure whether I agree that new users are
> necessarily better to draw in yet more new users though. I think
> there should be a variety, new users to give the cheesey success
> stories and more experienced users in case there are already people
> who are very comfortable with windoze/Mac OSs but just not switched.

We should also not ignore the many and varied native Linux
games available. Freedoom, Quake III Arena, Frozen Bubble, ppracer,
GLTron, GL 117, Chromium, and Super Tux are but a few I have installed.

> Again, only my view, it's up to the society to make up their mind
> what they want

Perhaps the *new* people should peruse the mailing list archives and
the LUG web site to see what we got up to in the past.


Andrew