Re: Wine looses a bit gaming and wins mobility?

2010-05-06 Thread Edward Savage
It is a shame that it is just a rumor but really that's all it's been for the last half decade. Plus, Phoronix refuses to release this binary their meant to have found which I tend to think means they don't have it. Steam for Linux would really be a huge win for native gaming but from Valves

Re: Wine looses a bit gaming and wins mobility?

2010-05-06 Thread Julius Schwartzenberg
Edward Savage wrote: It is a shame that it is just a rumor but really that's all it's been for the last half decade. Plus, Phoronix refuses to release this binary their meant to have found which I tend to think means they don't have it. It is just a rumor and the binaries there were available

Re: Wine looses a bit gaming and wins mobility?

2010-05-06 Thread Edward Savage
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Julius Schwartzenberg julius.schwartzenb...@gmail.com wrote: It is just a rumor and the binaries there were available were for the dedicated servers of some games. I made a copy here in case you're really interested:

Re: Wine looses a bit gaming and wins mobility?

2010-05-06 Thread Remco
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 09:24, Edward Savage epss...@gmail.com wrote: It is a shame that it is just a rumor but really that's all it's been for the last half decade.  Plus, Phoronix refuses to release this binary their meant to have found which I tend to think means they don't have it.  Steam

Re: Wine looses a bit gaming and wins mobility?

2010-05-06 Thread Remco
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:40, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: If you run the following shell code in an empty directory, it will download and fix a bug the Linux Steam client so that it will actually show a (nonworking) GUI. You'll need bspatch installed for this to work.

Re: Wine looses a bit gaming and wins mobility?

2010-05-06 Thread Edward Savage
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: The binary was not given to Phoronix. They found a link to the Linux version in a shell script for the Mac version. It is still available, and the binaries are periodically updated by Valve.

Re: Wine looses a bit gaming and wins mobility?

2010-05-06 Thread Remco
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:54, Edward Savage epss...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: The binary was not given to Phoronix. They found a link to the Linux version in a shell script for the Mac version. It is still available, and the binaries are

Re: Wine looses a bit gaming and wins mobility?

2010-05-06 Thread Evil Jay
On 05/05/2010 07:07 PM, Ben Klein wrote: On 6 May 2010 10:01, Evil Jay w...@eternaldusk.com wrote: On 05/05/2010 02:34 PM, André Hentschel wrote: Hi Folks, Steam seems to add a Linux client in the near future, so maybe Wine will not be needed anymore for that. or did i get

Re: Wine looses a bit gaming and wins mobility?

2010-05-06 Thread Evil Jay
On 05/06/2010 02:24 AM, Edward Savage wrote: ...Plus, Phoronix refuses to release this binary their meant to have found which I tend to think means they don't have it. What are you on about? The binaries were up on Valve's servers for several days, and lots of us downloaded them. They

Re: Wine looses a bit gaming and wins mobility?

2010-05-06 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
On 6 May 2010 17:24, Edward Savage epss...@gmail.com wrote: A better solution which you'd hope they'd approach Codeweavers or the likes of Ubuntu about would be integrating Wine into a native Steam to run Win32 binaries of non-native games.  On top of native Source games that is.  This would

Wine looses a bit gaming and wins mobility?

2010-05-05 Thread André Hentschel
Hi Folks, Steam seems to add a Linux client in the near future, so maybe Wine will not be needed anymore for that. or did i get something wrong? That might reduce our market share a bit as i guess that many Wineusers play steam games. On the other hand Intel presented its Z600, which is

Re: Wine looses a bit gaming and wins mobility?

2010-05-05 Thread Austin English
2010/5/5 André Hentschel n...@dawncrow.de: Hi Folks, Steam seems to add a Linux client in the near future, so maybe Wine will not be needed anymore for that. or did i get something wrong? That might reduce our market share a bit as i guess that many Wineusers play steam games. The rumor is

Re: Wine looses a bit gaming and wins mobility?

2010-05-05 Thread Evil Jay
On 05/05/2010 02:34 PM, André Hentschel wrote: Hi Folks, Steam seems to add a Linux client in the near future, so maybe Wine will not be needed anymore for that. or did i get something wrong? That might reduce our market share a bit as i guess that many Wineusers play steam games. On the

Re: Wine looses a bit gaming and wins mobility?

2010-05-05 Thread Ben Klein
On 6 May 2010 10:01, Evil Jay w...@eternaldusk.com wrote: On 05/05/2010 02:34 PM, André Hentschel wrote: Hi Folks, Steam seems to add a Linux client in the near future, so maybe Wine will not be needed anymore for that. or did i get something wrong? That might reduce our market share a bit

Re: Wine looses a bit gaming and wins mobility?

2010-05-05 Thread Jerome Leclanche
Knowing that they are developing an opengl version of their engines (for mac os), I'm guessing porting it to linux will be trivial. J. Leclanche On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Ben Klein shackl...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 May 2010 10:01, Evil Jay w...@eternaldusk.com wrote: On 05/05/2010 02:34