TransGaming D3D Wine Patch
January 31st, 2001 by CrusaderThe developers @ TransGaming Technologiesupdated their site yesterday to announcethat they have released a patch for theWine CVS tree (as of Jan 29) which adds support forDirect3D Win32 applications. In case you missed them the first time wementioned TransGaming, you can findscreenshots of the recently-released 3D RTS Sacrifice running under Linux via this methodhere. With this patch, the “Demo for American McGee’s Alice now works almost 100% perfectly” under Wine. Your mileage may vary of course, but its a viable alternative for games that have not been ported to our platform.
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
Grand Theft Auto runs pretty well. That’s an improvement. Now if my brother-in-law would just return my Roller Coaster Tycoon disk, I’d try that too… Oh, and I really need to see if Grim Fandango will run finally.
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Ideally, however, Loki would release more games soon and thsi wouldn’t seem so appealing.
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
YES!! we all know we need to buy MORE LOKI games!! Ive bought Descent3, SOF, and Heavy Gear II myself, and will buy Rune, Fakk2 and especially Tribes2 when loki releases them. I dont however, see an issue with developers creating a program to let you run games that some stubborn Software companies refuse to write except for Direct3D/Windows… Why not? It only serves as a testament to the extreme flexability of the Linux operating system..
(I would love to be able to play GIANTS-Citizen Kabuto under Linux) :)
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
I will always choose a native port over wine, but this latest transgaming patch owns (alice is cool) :)
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
There is a problem with WINE. Once a game already run under Linux, how do you think a porting company will take the risk to pay an expensive license when Linux gamers already play the game on Linux.[br][br]
With Loki having some troubles, how do you think WINE improve the situation? Transgaming WINE should at least take some sales of Loki. Transgaming, unlike Loki, doesn’t have to pay expensive license and handle months of porting.[br][br]
Transgaming may also have a good surprise once they will see that almost no one wants to pay for WINE. Everytime a Transgaming story was on Slashdot, I never seen a post saying “Cool, I want to pay now!”.
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
Hi, one question.
What do you think is better,
buying a game from Loki directly or buying the
loki game from a shop that has that game?
On which of these two buying locations would Loki get more money?
- the shop, where loki isn’t the direct seller so they get probably only 30% of the money but new aggrements with these shops related to the quantity of product numbers? (which can be also a big profit market)
or
- directly from loki, where loki gets 100 % of the money
What do you think, where should i buy a loki game.
Which method helps loki more?
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
keep up the good work guys. They already said they wouldn’t put any effort into getting games to work with wine that are native to linux (ie loki ports) so this is a good thing.