> > Hash: SHA1 > > > > 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 > >> > >> > > I thought of a solution to this, online petition site, on the ubuntu > > site, similar in style to the parliment one, but this could be for > > users to campaign for specific ports, etc. > > > > Or simply an open source site somewhere that can faclitate this. > > > > Paul > > > > - -- > > Paul Sutton > > www.zleap.net > > Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf > > http://www.odfalliance.org > > Next Linux User Group meet : April 4th : 3pm, Shoreline Cafe Paignton > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > iEYEARECAAYFAkm7+CMACgkQaggq1k2FJq0kpwCfRTXTRyIysStVBJH9NlObZEhp > > 7noAnR2ZU5HZ0wCxGp80HG3CCNSgGnQy > > =vNhW > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > -- > > [email protected] > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > If you have a copy of XP around, you coil install it in VirtualBox if > you've got enough memory. > > Harry >
Managed to get the game installed under XP, only to find that there's a fault with it anyway which is intermittently preventing people from logging on. My little lad gave up! Chris
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