patm1987

I know, and it won't run on sparc either but bsd runs on x86 machines. And there are plenty of x86 emulators mac users could try to bundle w/ winex, although it's prolly difficult, and prolly goes a bit beyond the point & click interface. also, there is a version of Sparc for the x86, and I believe there are x86 emulators for the sparc processor. But this is in no way a good solution, it's like trying to play a playstation game on the comp. You can, but it won't work well. And not only will you get bugs from wine, but you'll get bugs from the emulator... it's interesting how this thread is going, and it doesn't seem to be a flamewar, or did I talk too soon. man... I still have to do my homework, thank goodness it's the weekend...

wow, 3 pages... well, isn't the linux userbase bigger than mac's now, I know some people say it is and others say it isn't, so it seems that it would be the second biggest to invite in. And Solaris and BSD's seem to have some compatability w/ linux proggies. open sourced mta would be neat, but there is the hacking thing, revealing the innerworking could allow hacker's to more easily find holes in the code. Plus there is the thing that it is no longer your program. I'm a senior, about to go to college, and anything I write I know store in a portfolio type thing, and I can say, hey, this is my application/game. (search patrickgames on google, yay, lost all the sourcecode, good ol' days of Jamagic). it would be nice to see some sort of linux compatability pop out, using winelibs, or some restructuring to make the program co-operate w/ linux. Now I have cedega set up, and homework to do. Oh no, though choice...

man, I was just getting used to this yum and apt stuff, it all works togeather I wish I knew what they did to make em work, I'm running the latest 2.8 smp kernel in yum... maby that will make it work. could it have something to do w/ XFree over x.org??? cause fedora uses x.org and both debian and SuSE use XFree, I don't even think there is a x.org .deb yet hmm... needs investigation, but I'll definatly choose XDamage and XComposite over MTA...

I just switched to fedora cause skool jumped up on me, and I had a half baked gento system emerging. I heard of lfs, and it sounds fun, but that would prolly take longer than gentoo (and w/o portage, not wanting to start flamewars, but I like it better than apt and this yumi thing I have on fedora). I'm gonna get cedega again soon, just need to make sure this is ready for skool, and kill the fat f... err fruitcake who stole my usb stick. yes I am registered (that $30 was really worth it, a lot less than m$), and thanks for that info on SuSE and Debian. Debian doesn't like my s-ata hard disk, and I don't feel like doing this compatability mode stuff. it keeps bugging out in the partitioning phase, telling me to create a linux raid, but not actually making any partitions, or giving me any options but back... SuSE I may actually buy, it'll b the first os I've purchased since I got the xp update for my laptop b4 I traded it in @ best 4 one w/ xp already installed, several years ago when I didn't care about os's, and I barely touched linux. (Xandros was a gift, and I wouldn't be using linux atm if I didn't have that, Lycoris, my very first distro, I hated and dependencies were driving my crazy). Funny thing is, I was using MEPIS b4, it didn't work on that, but I was using the testing version. Mepis is based on Debian... I can talk in circles much longer, but I'll end w/ thanx and linux rox, and one long live the penguin est-ce que bon avec toi???

suse was pretty good, but the free version is missing way too many features. Gentoo is awsome once it's set up, which takes about a week mepis is kool, I forget y I dropped it, I think because I was getting errors w/ cedega that others weren't. atm, I've dropped gentoo since school started before I could get it set up, and I just installed fedora core for some reason. I think I didn't like this one's update system or the difficulty it puts you through setting up an nvidia card. but, anyway, I'd appreciate any work done here to make it easier to get this game to work with linux. In addition, I've been bugging around the transgaming forums. right now I'm looking forwards to doom3 (had it running on cedega till I removed SuSE, and then since I've been distrohopping since, I haven't reinstalled it. plus I decided to wait for the linux client, and the next patch) well, I'll prolly end up buying SuSE, it always seems to be the best, and is the distro I often fall back on (note, Xandros was my favorite till they charged for Xandros 2.0).

yes, I know I did write a nice 14 page essay on y linx is better than any other of the mainstream os's for an english class (got marked down cause the max was supposed to be 4). it's amazing how cult-ish linux becomes, it has obsessed every moment of my day, and now as I try to free myself, I get stuck deeper. I had a just works distro, got bored, and installed gentoo, y, I don't know. I like it, and you would to but yeah, performance isn't great under winex (but it can be better than windows in some games, mainly since it doesn't have IEXPLORER.exe and explorer.exe running in the background) but I have no arguments other than I'm poor, I'm staying legal, linux is fun, I have no life, and I have no friends, exept those who come over for the lan party, but they are two, and bring their friends since I have the only working network, guess which os my router runs now I have to install a new os which isn't based on gentoo, or my java teacher will have my head

I have half-life (w/ mods), ut2004 (w/ mods), quake3 (w/ mods), and Battlefield 1942 (w/ mods) all working w/ full multiplayer support. I have no problem with steam, and I even got Doom3 to work with multiplayer support. For the most part, I love linux. The performance is awsome, the next release of x.org will give us mac quality special effects, and runs on almost any machine with some sort of writable disk and a cpu.

ah, yes, root access could be bad. I may do some testing over a private network (aka, unplug my modem) but I hate doing anything as root, too easy to break gentoo

nope linux only wait, I have a spyware infested 3 yr old bottom quality (then, cheapest @ best) laptop w/ xp... but xp is on the vendor's cd... not a m$ cd it lags while playing starcraft though, I get somewhere between 2 and 8 fps for most shooters... I wonder what vc would do?? I may actually test it. but I have a top of the line, hand built (by me) desktop that I installed linux on. p4 lg775 processor at 3.2 GHz, GeForce FX 5900 pcx, 3 cdrom drives, 2 hard disks (yes, games take up 1 80 gig, and one 120 gig, especially when I have 6 copies installed to test different features of different emulators) 2 game pads, onboard audio and 512 ram, I'm sure u can pick out where I ran out of money (look around the audio section) not criticizing u for not doing a port though (and not trying to show u up or anything w/ my comp, I like typing), I understand this is a pretty big feat doing the porting (I even have trouble getting my java programs 2 run correctly @ skool, drives my teacher crazy), and I've done a little experimenting in c++ and random interpreted languages. If I can be of any help, I'd be glad to aid, but my networking skill ends at MOO (Multiplayer online object or something along those lines) and the most porting I've done was from my linux desktop to my linux pda. man I need a life

ok, I know gta.vc doesn't support linux, but it runs in cedega mta doesn't work in cedega (winex), and it seems mostly to be the netcode is what is causing this error. there is a linux server, which means some coding (at least a backend) has been done w/ the necissary code. I'm not sure how the winelibs work, but would it be possible, to compile the game using winelibs, and include the linux specific code in there? or maby work on getting this to work with cedega. I understand that you can not release a fully native linux client without gta being written w/ a linux client, but I really want to play this game, this is one of two games I really want to get 2 work (this and splintercell). I also noticed that I often have problems w/ the networking part of games, such as rainbow 6 3, and gta (original for pc). and please don't immediatly lock this, I'm not asking the impossible (but it may be out of the way) and I just spent all that time registering and making my gmail account venerable