I have the Hot Date edition...can I run under Linux with the special lnx patch?? or the Living large edition....??? /A On Tuesday 26 February 2002 08:08 am, you wrote: > > I have a copy of the Sims installed on a Win2k FAT32 partition. I know > > for a fact that The Sims works under Wine (Mandrake's "Gamer" edition), > > You know wrong. The Sims doesnt work under wine due to some wierdness by > mixing 3d and 2d directx calls, if you were somehow to get it to run, then > a lot of textures won't show up. > > Transgaming (who makes WineX, which drives the 'mandrake gamer edition') > wanted a flagship product to attract new gamers, and at the time 'the > sims' has sold more copies than any other game last year, and since it > didnt work quite right, TG paid Maxis for the rights to modify and > redistribute its own implementation. From what I know, most of the changes > are just repackaged images in a more SDL-friendly format. > > The Sims will only work with wine if you have the special Transgaming > version cd-rom, only currently available bundled with the 'mandrake gamer > edition' available at mandrakesoft.com or your local computer retailer > (Best Buy, Fry's, CompUSA, Circuit City) for about $60 > > Dave Jones - dajones@purdue.edu > > > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.com > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
