Cedega 5.0
November 10th, 2005 by CrusaderTransGaming Technologies has announced the release of Cedega 5.0 (screenshot) for their subscribers. Features mentioned include support for Battlefield 2, Dungeon Siege II, City of Villains, Madden NFL 2006, World of WarCraft, Half-Life 2, and Guild Wars. Additional information can be found in the release notes.
Also, linuX-gamers.net has posted a review which examines the installation/setup process.
November 10th, 2005 at 12:49 pm
… an application that ‘calls home’? No thanks.
November 10th, 2005 at 1:27 pm
Transgaming decided to strip the command line usage from Cedega 5. The only official way to play now is through the Point2Play interface. Many of whom are in the opinion that it sucks.
Sadly, to hide this fact, Transgaming announces that there is new support for commandline. Really all this is is a way to run previously configured applications from P2P.
I have a bunch of .exe files lying on a shared drive. Below cedega 5 these would run these just fine. After cedega 5 these are unplayable.
The Transgaming forums have been alight with flames and suggestions. A few users have cobbled together shell and perl scripts that get things almost back to the way they were.
Anyways, this release has fiasco written all over it. I am hopeful a 5.1 will be coming shortly.
November 14th, 2005 at 6:13 pm
It was great that Kohan Ahriman’s Gift was availible, except for the fact everything had to be done over the web. Each time I rebuild my system (I like to tinker) I had to reinstall the game. I eventually ditched my account in favor of supporting only Linux native, however I still miss the game and it is impossible to run the program I “bought” without paying their “subscription fee”.
This is a fundamental weakness of the subscription based model. A bean counter determines when something goes obsolete, not the fans. From now on I’m sticking with the philosophy of I wont buy it unless I end up with a CD in my hand. Kohan AG was the best RTS ever. No fancy graphics but excellent gameplay. Beats the pants off of the micromanagement madness of C&C (Insert version here) and games like it, and avoids the uneccesary extra fluff of WC3 and its ilk.
Do they even have a “web-store”? The link has been inacctive for the past year and a half.