Jeremy & vitamin, Thanks for the responses. After checking out the requirements page I will likely try the demo and see how it goes. Being that I'm a Gentoo user and Codeweavers isn't going to support that distro I'd like to ensure that things go well before spending the $40 but none the less I'm excited. I suppose another question might be how much better Crossover Games works compared to standard leading edge Wine but maybe that's putting too fine a point on it. I'll get the demo and see if it works for me. >From a practical standpoint he Codeweavers compatibility section for games is pretty much in its infancy at this point so I hope to see that grow in the future. My first question as I looked around was wondering whether gaming apps that were in there had been checked were checked in Crossover Games or Crossover Office? Maybe I missed it. I don't know yet. Anyway, I am really happy to see a second path for Windows gamers in Linux. That's not really me but I've got one in the house. Cheers, Mark On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Jeremy White <jwhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > >
