On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On Tuesday 25 March 2008 11:52:41 am Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:47 AM, twickline <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > An Introduction CrossOver Games > > > > > > CrossOver Games is a commercial variant of Wine released by CodeWeavers > > > with support for many of today's most popular games. CrossOver Games is > > > tested for performance and stability with many games such as Guild Wars, > > > Eve Online, and Steam games like Half-Life 2 and Portal. > > > > > > Link: Full Article > > > (http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/07/introduction-to-crossover-games. > > >html) > > > > Interesting and reasonably priced, but I'm not clear what's the > > difference from standard Wine or Transgaming's Cedega? > > I'm not entirely clear on the difference between Wine and Crossover Games in > this case. > > However, my understanding is Transgaming has been rather negligent in holding > up their promise to kick patches back to the Wine project, as I understand > it. It's been a while since I've dealt with Transgaming at all; between that > and their customer billing support being so poor, my time as a Cedega > customer/user was very short lived to say the least. I'm a little surprised > to discover they're still around three years later; from dealing with > Transgaming, I got the impression they were a fly-by-night operation. > > - -- > Paul Johnson It's sort of funny Paul that we have the same story. I got started with both Codeweavers & Transgaming a couple of years ago. When I left Silicon Valley to start a second career I stopped needing Crossover Office but as someone trying to get his kid to use Linux I got a Cedega subscription and paid $5/month for a few years until that credit card needed to be updated due to the card's expiration date. When I tried to resubscribe I found their system didn't work and I couldn't. I sent an email to Transgaming about the problems and never heard back so I no longer subscribe. I like the folks at Codeweavers even if they have, in the past, been a little bit tough on me for being a Gentoo user. I'd still like to support them and the project. As long as I can use the new gaming version it seems like a good enough way to spend what little fun money I have these days. Cheers, Mark
