On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 04:16:51PM +1000, Trent Waddington wrote:
> On 1/9/07, Dirk <[email protected]> wrote:
> >I tried to get WoW installed with Cedega 5.2.9 for two days now.
> >
> >Cedega is not a replacement for ports. And it does not encourage ports.
>
> We're totally off topic now, but what the hell.. You wanna encourage
> ports? Write a step by step guide on how to most easily port a modern
> game from Windows to Linux. My suggestion would be to use winelib and
> include all the workarounds needed to make the game compatible with
> the DirectX support in wine.
>
> As far as I'm aware, there is no such guide, so if a games company was
> to decide to port their game to Linux (for whatever whacky reason)
> they wouldn't even know how much work they have ahead of them.
It does already exist:
http://winehq.org/site/docs/winelib-guide/index
But as Picasa has shown, using Wine is usually equally good.
> Trent
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