Re: Age of Empires on FreeBSD --- Possible?
Wll, maybe if development on wine for FBSD would have stopped things would have been different. In my office we have linux and FreeBSD workstations. I run FreeBSD but my friends have linux. Because of that they can play about anything using winex (Broodwar, Counterstrike, Rise of Nations etc) and i cant join because wine on FreeBSD doesnt work too well. Radu On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, David Jenkins wrote: On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 23:17:50 -0700, Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 08 October 2004 02:20 pm, "Hugo Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey, I really need to get Age of Empires II - The Conquerors Expansion working on my (only workstation) FreeBSD box. I don't have windows anymore and I'll not switch back to be able to play, but I'd like to know if it is possible at all to run the game on BSD. Perhaps winex ? I heard it is compiling OK now with several patches.. Well, this probably isn't the answer you wanted to hear, but personally I still keep a Windows partition for this explicit reason (games and sound production). There are some games which run fine on some sort of emulator, but I'd rather not have to deal with a whole bunch of extra stuff to do something I can achieve more easily and with better results by using the intended OS. I don't like Windows, but some of the best games will only run on it. It's sort of a pain to reboot just to play Medieval: Total War, for instance, but once the game is over I can reboot into fbsd and have my workstation back, which I sort of like better than having a one-size-fits-all setup. In fact, I'll probably end up building a separate box with a Win installation just for gaming and sound, so I can concentrate on the hardware that will work best for a workstation and some servers using FreeBSD. - jt I tend to agree with this view - i.e. use the right tool for the right job. ``Usually'' this means using Windows for games ... Just my $0.02. Hope this helps. David ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Age of Empires on FreeBSD --- Possible?
Hi, The game isn't on ports and is available for windows only (it's a Microsoft game, figure) Vmware shouldn't run the game, plus I don't have a cdkey for it. I've tried wine and it kinda sucks on FreeBSD, I couldn't even get mIRC to run, let alone a game. My only chance seems to be winex but I don't know where to get it for free (or if it can be downloaded freely for bsd at all), and I'm not sure if it compiles OK on 5.2.1; I've heard people had some success with some patches. > On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 09:20:37PM -, Hugo Silva wrote: >> I really need to get Age of Empires II - The Conquerors Expansion >> working >> on my (only workstation) FreeBSD box. >> >> I don't have windows anymore and I'll not switch back to be able to >> play, >> but I'd like to know if it is possible at all to run the game on BSD. >> Perhaps winex ? I heard it is compiling OK now with several patches.. >> >> Also read people could run Diablo II and WarCraft III, so perhaps it's >> possible to play AoE with winex. >> >> Where can I get a working winex version for FreeBSD? (5.2.1-RELEASE) >> >> If any of you could make this game run on FreeBSD, I'd love to know how >> it >> was achieved. > > Hi Hugo, > > I'm guessing your new to FreeBSD. FreeBSD works with a port system. This > can be compaired with the Debian apt-get. You can find more information > about this in the handbook that you can find at www.freebsd.org/handbook. > > As to you're question. I didn't find these games in the ports. If these > games exist for linux then you can rum them on FreeBSD by enable the > linux support. You could also install wine (although you may need a > windows partion for this) or vmware (you _don't_ need a windows partion > for this). These are in the ports. > > You can install these by: > cd /usr/ports/emulators/wine; make install && make clean > cd /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3; make install && make clean > > -- > Alex > > Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. > WWW: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/ > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > -- www.6s-gaming.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Age of Empires on FreeBSD --- Possible?
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 09:20:37PM -, Hugo Silva wrote: > I really need to get Age of Empires II - The Conquerors Expansion working > on my (only workstation) FreeBSD box. > > I don't have windows anymore and I'll not switch back to be able to play, > but I'd like to know if it is possible at all to run the game on BSD. > Perhaps winex ? I heard it is compiling OK now with several patches.. > > Also read people could run Diablo II and WarCraft III, so perhaps it's > possible to play AoE with winex. > > Where can I get a working winex version for FreeBSD? (5.2.1-RELEASE) > > If any of you could make this game run on FreeBSD, I'd love to know how it > was achieved. Hi Hugo, I'm guessing your new to FreeBSD. FreeBSD works with a port system. This can be compaired with the Debian apt-get. You can find more information about this in the handbook that you can find at www.freebsd.org/handbook. As to you're question. I didn't find these games in the ports. If these games exist for linux then you can rum them on FreeBSD by enable the linux support. You could also install wine (although you may need a windows partion for this) or vmware (you _don't_ need a windows partion for this). These are in the ports. You can install these by: cd /usr/ports/emulators/wine; make install && make clean cd /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3; make install && make clean -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. WWW: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Age of Empires on FreeBSD --- Possible?
Hey, I really need to get Age of Empires II - The Conquerors Expansion working on my (only workstation) FreeBSD box. I don't have windows anymore and I'll not switch back to be able to play, but I'd like to know if it is possible at all to run the game on BSD. Perhaps winex ? I heard it is compiling OK now with several patches.. Also read people could run Diablo II and WarCraft III, so perhaps it's possible to play AoE with winex. Where can I get a working winex version for FreeBSD? (5.2.1-RELEASE) If any of you could make this game run on FreeBSD, I'd love to know how it was achieved. Regards, Hugo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
