Sstellethyss
06-27-2007, 06:53 PM
Well I guess I spoke too soon..
Looks like Linux has hope of catching on to mainstream gamers after all. After researching Ubuntu Linux, my boyfriend had decided to load it onto our computer.. which by the way is an almost 8 year old 667Mhz, 15 Gig hard drive and 128MB RAM (which I upgraded from 64 about 5 years ago and is the only hardware upgrade I have ever done. Go me!). We had been reading that Wine, which if you don't know is a program that allows you to play windows games on Linux, was working decently and though I may have to give up some text or sound.. it would run. Being that this computer is so unbelievably out of date, Windows 2000 is too much for it. And I used to play Diablo II on this thing and do a damned good job at it..... 6 years ago anyway. We wanted to try Ubuntu because it doesn't eat up all your system resources like Windows does, and this itty bitty machine should be able to keep up a little better.
We couldn't even get Age of Mythology to run properly.
After reading into things a bit more, the pros and cons weighed out to putting Windows 2000 back on this thing, so here we are. I was rather disheartened.. until he found this article earlier today.
http://transgaming.com/products/cedega/
In short, Cedega is a program that basically does what Wine does, but actually works and has a tech support staff - if you're willing to spend $5 a month to subscribe to their site.
I normally don't care for anything if you have to subscribe to it, but there are other options. Plus, once you have tried Ubuntu with its Wine counterpart and fell flat on your face with one of the most simple games on the market, checking out this lengthy Games List (http://games.cedega.com/gamesdb/) came as quite a shock.
For those of you into World of Warcraft, here's a screenshot:
http://transgaming.com/imgs/transgaming/screenshots/screen_cedega01.jpg
Just thought that if anyone else out there is rooting for Linux as much as I am, you might find this interesting..
Looks like Linux has hope of catching on to mainstream gamers after all. After researching Ubuntu Linux, my boyfriend had decided to load it onto our computer.. which by the way is an almost 8 year old 667Mhz, 15 Gig hard drive and 128MB RAM (which I upgraded from 64 about 5 years ago and is the only hardware upgrade I have ever done. Go me!). We had been reading that Wine, which if you don't know is a program that allows you to play windows games on Linux, was working decently and though I may have to give up some text or sound.. it would run. Being that this computer is so unbelievably out of date, Windows 2000 is too much for it. And I used to play Diablo II on this thing and do a damned good job at it..... 6 years ago anyway. We wanted to try Ubuntu because it doesn't eat up all your system resources like Windows does, and this itty bitty machine should be able to keep up a little better.
We couldn't even get Age of Mythology to run properly.
After reading into things a bit more, the pros and cons weighed out to putting Windows 2000 back on this thing, so here we are. I was rather disheartened.. until he found this article earlier today.
http://transgaming.com/products/cedega/
In short, Cedega is a program that basically does what Wine does, but actually works and has a tech support staff - if you're willing to spend $5 a month to subscribe to their site.
I normally don't care for anything if you have to subscribe to it, but there are other options. Plus, once you have tried Ubuntu with its Wine counterpart and fell flat on your face with one of the most simple games on the market, checking out this lengthy Games List (http://games.cedega.com/gamesdb/) came as quite a shock.
For those of you into World of Warcraft, here's a screenshot:
http://transgaming.com/imgs/transgaming/screenshots/screen_cedega01.jpg
Just thought that if anyone else out there is rooting for Linux as much as I am, you might find this interesting..