On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:24, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 03:19:30PM -0700, Mark C. Ballew wrote: > > > Unless someone has made a major breakthrough on getting Loki-ported > > games to work on the newer GLIBC2.3 based distros (as with the case of > > FC2), you are out of luck. The GLIBC in the newer Linux distributions > > simply doesn't work with the statically linked Lokigames stuff, and > > update patches are unlikely since Loki bit the dust long ago. > > The only suggestions I could make would be to try it under VMware with > an older distro installed in the virtual machine...assuming that the > graphics capability of VMware supports the rendering (it won't support > DirectX with Windows as the guest OS).
At least with VMware 4.x (haven't tried 4.5 yet), anything other than 2D rendering is pretty darn slow. I would venture to say that SimCity would run under it, but you are going to pretty unsatisfied with how the game performs. I use VMware all the time and I've learn that you shouldn't push it too hard or it rolls over and dies, if not get unbarrably slow. > The sad fact is that Linux has moved on, and no one has really stepped > forward to fill Loki's shoes in the gaming arena. Although Battle for > Wesnoth *does* keep me pretty occupied these days--if you like > turn-based strategy games, I'd highly recommend it. :) The vendors themselves are slowly coming around, but beyond the games you'll often find that only the game server runs on Linux, yet no Linux port of the game itself. When the market expands more, you will see more Linux games. The momentum in the Linux desktop just too fierce for the game vendors not to see this. FYI, Transgaming came out with version 4 of their WineX product today: http://www.transgaming.com/news.php?newsid=119 -- Mark C. Ballew [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sublinear.net http://markballew.com PGP: 0xB2A33008 AIM: pdx110 "I wish those people just would be quiet," -- Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, complaining about computer security researchers.
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