[NTLUG:Discuss] TransGaming

[Paul Drew]

I have been tooling around with getting this all installed on my redhat box 
at home. I have a few friends who use this, and it indeed works well. I have 
seen them play Quake3, CounterStrike, and other games of the sort in person 
on them. They gained significant performance increases when compared with 
the windows install on the same machine. I decided upon seeing this in 
action that I must give it a try.

I didn't want to pay for this so I decided to get the CVS and install it all 
from their site. I had to go and find CVS, install it etc. Where I got hung 
up was the installation of WineX itself. It gave me an error which said that 
it could NOT co-exist with normal wine, and that I must remove it to 
continue. I said yes to do that, and then it went for a while. I recieved an 
error that said no suitable c compiler could be found, and the installation 
must be aborted. Those are not the exact words, but the message was the same 
about the C compiler.

I am a pretty busy guy, and honestly I have not messed with it since then. 
It wasn't a priority, but it is something I want to get going. Once this is 
done, I want to be able to not boot back into XP on that machine again. 
Currently games are the only reason why I do now. I would be greatful for 
any advice, but I probably just need to do some research on it some. :) I do 
recomend it because as I said, I have see it in person, and it works well. 
My friend said it was stabler than playing the games in windows as well.

Paul Drew






>From: MadHat <madhat at unspecific.com>
>Reply-To: discuss at ntlug.org
>To: NTLUG-Discuss <discuss at ntlug.org>
>Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] TransGaming
>Date: 08 Nov 2002 13:05:28 -0600
>
>
>So there was a bit about TransGaming in the latest RedHat newsletter, so
>I went to check it out at http://www.transgaming.com
>
>What is is is WineX, an Wine with DirectX support so you can play games
>on your linux box made for windows.  It is supposed to work pretty well,
>but... you have to pay as far as I can tell on their site.
>
>They do have stuff on sourceforge under CVS, but no binaries or
>packages.
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/winex
>
>Basically the details are vague if you don't want to pay and I am not
>100% sure what I would be paying for other than access to the member
>pages.
>
>Anyway, has anyone played with this?
>Know if it is worth paying for it?
>
>--
>MadHat at Unspecific.com
>"Anyone who understands Linux/Unix, really understands the universe.
>  Anyone who understands Windows, really understands Windows."
>           - Richard Thieme, DefCon 10, 2002
>
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