The performance is good. Games, however, are another ball o' wax. Windows uses DirectX (?) to do funky stuff with writing directly to video memory and the like -- this is pretty un-portable. I know that there are parties trying to make it work, but I have no idea where they are in the process. In a nutshell: if your games require DirectX, don't even bother. (Note: last time I used Win4Lin was 3.x; for all I know 4.x has remedied this.)
-Ken > Mandatory Tangent Post: > > Anyone w/ direct experience using win4lin to run W9x games? I'm not too > interested in the latest & greatest shooters. I'm mostly a > strategy/rts/city-builder addict (and many of the ones I like are 1+ years > old), so I don't care if it can throw 3 billion frames / second. However, > I do like smooth graphics under those games, and a responsive interface is > critical. Games are one of the main reasons I keep a "Wintendo" > installation of W98 on my machine. > > As example, some of the ones keeping me mostly distracted are > MechCommander, Pharaoh, Star Fleet Command & Stronghold > > -Lawrence > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Feldman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 2:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: another windoze emulator > > > Technically it is, but it is limited to running a single copy of Windows > 9x. (Of course, some of us may not consider Windows 9x and operating > system). > Win4Lin does a pretty decent job by allowing the user to run a complete > copy of Windows9x. One advantage of this over WINE (and CrossoverOffice) > is > that virtually every Windoz program can run with very few exceptions. > Another advantage of this over VMWare (other than cost) is that the > Windows > file system is simply a subdirectory in your Linux native file system. > Performance is better than VMWare (although VMWare is the better product). > > Jon Hall wrote: >> Win4Lin is not a virtual machine.....you cannot run another operating >> system on top of it the way you can with VMware. > > -- > Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Boston Linux and Unix user group > http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 > PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 > > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
