Hi Mark, > Interesting and reasonably priced, but I'm not clear what's the > difference from standard Wine or Transgaming's Cedega? > > Granted, I only scanned the immediate page and didn't do much study. CrossOver is a polished and supported version of Wine. As such, it's core is very similar to that of Wine. The primary difference from Wine is that we test and insure that a given set of applications work well, and then back that with our customer support. Transgaming is based on an older version of Wine (although they are increasingly bringing in parts of modern Wine as well), and also includes some proprietary code. I'm rather biased, but I think that modern Wine has now surpassed the proprietary bits that Transgaming has, and that, on balance, Wine (and therefore CrossOver) is the better overall gaming platform. With that said, there will be quite a few cases where it works well in one place, but not the other, and vice versa. >From a philosophical perspective, the other crucial difference is that all of the work we do on Wine, we give back to WineHQ. Transgaming has not had a history of doing the same. Thus, a dollar spent on CrossOver is a dollar spent on a Wine developer. Again, I'm extremely biased, but I think it's a more wisely spent dollar <grin>. Cheers, Jeremy
