> > It doesn't surprise me at all that they do, though: I think it is a > typical Establishment expression of the sticky Anglo-American 'special > relationship' (incidentally, Britain is not the only entity claiming a > 'special relationship' with the USA). > > On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 14:24 +0000, Chris Rowson wrote: > > My little lad wants to play the new CBBC game 'Adventure Rock' from > > the BBC on my laptop. It seems that game is available for only for > > Windows XP however: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/adventurerock/hints/faq.shtml > > > > I'm going to give it a bash on Wine but I'm not sure I'll have much > > luck. > > > > I find it infuriating that the BBC keep locking their products into > > Microsoft operating systems.... > > > > Chris > > > Meh, just for anyone who was interested. Running this game in wine doesn't seem to work easily. Has dependencies on DirectX 9 and Windows Media Player 9+. I can't be bothered to keep going at it! I'll just have to let the little one use my seldom used Windows partition!!
Chris
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