Devine wrote: > Greetings, > I started this petition the other day. > http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/PunkBusterforWINE > > > As legitimate owner of a game, regardless of platform (providing that it will actually run) - one should be entitled to the online experience attached to the game. > > Sadly, for many Windows(tm) games under WINE this cannot be done because of the PunkBuster Anti-Cheat protection which does not allow those using a WINE based API to access a PunkBuster protected server. > > There is PunkBuster support for Linux game servers, so there is already in-house knowledge of Linux at Even Balance. CodeWeavers and Transgaming are distributors of commercial branches of WINE who would work with Even Balance to support their largest demographic. (the gamers!) > > Anything that is which allows WINE users to access PunkBuster protected servers will be appreciated. (full implementation or not!) > > This petition is to show community and market support to the parties who will be involved in providing PunkBuster support for community and commercial WINE based products. > > Also, for those who want to criticize the way I have approached this, I don't care (unless you really do have a better idea which I might take on board).. Please learn how to write Wine http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8b4fbbe473bd0d51d936bcf298f5b7f0e8d25f2e second, just who are you petitioning? it's not clear from the link... I think you should have researched this better, PunkBuster works for some games but not for others, I can attest to it working fine for me after applying two patches that are on bugzilla. I recall someone saying that some PB enabled games like Americas Army (linux client) is shipped with PB, so support in some form already exists which could be used in a similar manner by EvenBalance without any action on Wine's behalf since they could probably ship something which accesses the linux native library.
