Now, if they can manage to give it Directx functions, like the present version of wine has DX7 then games the developers that won't back port to Linux can be used. I am currently running Fallout Tactics without any problems so far, however Homeworld will finally load and run but at seconds per frame rather than frames per second - the deep space computation for the renders is the problem - big virtual areas. Anyway, I think this is very good news and would be willing to pay for a wine program that is truely comprehensive, providing it's priced reasonably. Cheers, Curtis. On Wednesday 06 November 2002 21:26, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
->after seeing several posts about Crossover I visited their web site ->but am still a bit confused. what is the difference between the ->package and the plugin? Am I correct in thinking that Crossover is ->not an Office alternative but a tweaked Wine that lets the real ->M$ Office work in Linux?
There are 2 products that Codeweavers markets.
The first is the CrossOver plugin pkg which is indeed a very tweeked version of wine with their installer for installing Windows browser plugins and software such as Quicktime.
The second is CrossOver Office which lets you install Microsoft Office, Quicken and quite a few other Windows programs. Again this is also a tweeked version of wine with their installer and other such addons.
Neither of these are simply wine, but wine + their addons. I have read that they are going to be merging these two products into one end all be all wine pkgs with many tools and addons for helping Win32 code work under Linux and I've also heard it will be working under FreeBSD as well.
That's about the size of what I know. :)
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