On Tuesday 09 January 2007 07:26, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 21:28 +0000, Pete Connolly wrote: > > I still have a Win32 boot partition on this system in case I need to run > > a game that doesn't work on Linux. Haven't booted into it in 6+ months > > :) > > My daughter has a laptop running Windows XP. Previously, she used the > family computer and Linux and we pretty much happy. What tipped the > scale for Windows was that she likes to play Sims2. vmware seemed a bit > much to deal with to let that happen (she is only 13). This leads to the > endless discussion of getting games for Linux. IIRC, the success rate > for companies that have tried has not been very encouraging. > I was going to suggest Cedega (transgaming.com) but it seems it doesn't work for the Sims2. I know what you mean about the high failure rate for Linux game companies - look at Loki. A shame, but the developers of fizzball - www.grubbygames.com - seem to have a good development platform that caters for both Win32 and Linux platforms. Maybe a few more developers should use that approach?
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