Re: [WoW] How I got World of Warcraft to run on Linux

From: Cyde Weys (cyde_at_umd.edu)
Date: 03/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 03:55:20 GMT

Knight37 <knight37m@email.com> wrote in
news:Xns9621CB2B85905knight37m@130.133.1.4:

> Yeechang Lee <ylee@pobox.com> once tried to test me with:
>
>> * Follow all the directions at
>><URL:http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wfsection/article.php?articlei
>>d =45>
>> to install the CVS version of Cedega. I captured the snapshot on
>> Saturday, 19 March early in the morning.
>
> I assume that Cedega is a windows emulator for Linux? Does this work
> on a lot of games? Like can you name some other ones it works with
> besides WoW? Also is this for a particular flavor of Linux or what?

Actual Cedega isn't so much a Windows emulator as it is a set of packages
made for specific games that lets you run them under Linux. It's made in
conjunction with the game developers. Here's the link for ya (Transgaming
is the company that makes Cedega):

http://www.transgaming.com/ 

-- 
~ Cyde Weys ~
So say we all.

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