APPDB: Half-Life and Counter-Strike with WINE
David F. Colwell
dfcolwell at dfcolwell.com
Tue May 10 08:33:25 CDT 2005
Chris Morgan wrote:
>If you would like to submit a version please do so. In your case you
>submitted an entire application that was a duplicate, and when I rejected it
>the version submission implicitly created when submitting an application was
>also deleted. If there was a particular place that was confusing please
>mention it, we want to ensure that the appdb documentation is as clear as
>possible.
>
>Do we even need to have the retail version of CS in appdb? Nearly all CS
>servers upgrade when new versions come out as bugs and exploits are fixed in
>older versions. I don't think we want to list every version that CS has ever
>released, this means we would have a forum, description and an entry for each
>CS release? That seems like a bit much. Typically we bundle similar
>versions together. If you would like to add specific testing results for the
>retail version I think you should do so in the existing Counter-Strike
>version entry. A common method is a table similar to that in the version
>template where the first column is the version of CS, the second the version
>of wine and the rest like the normal testing table.
>
>Chris
>
>
>On Monday 09 May 2005 8:53 pm, David F. Colwell wrote:
>
>
>>Hiji wrote:
>>
>>
>>>--- "David F. Colwell" <dfcolwell at dfcolwell.com>
>>>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hiji et al,
>>>>
>>>>Couldn't find Half-Life or Counter-Strike in the DB
>>>>yet they returned...
>>>>
>>>>Submitted version rejected
>>>>
>>>>
>>>-------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>The version you submitted ( 1.0.0.0) has been
>>>>rejected.This application is already in the
>>>>database. If you are interested in helping out with
>>>>the howto please sign up to be a maintainer of the
>>>>application. Thanks.
>>>>We appreciate your help in making the Version
>>>>Database better for all users.
>>>>
>>>>Best regards.
>>>>The AppDB team
>>>>http://www.winehq.org/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I did my part. :-)
>>>>
>>>>On Monday 09 May 2005 7:40 pm, Hiji wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Any ideas? (I'm forwarding the message, so, it
>>>>>defaults to showing below my message. Sorry!) :(
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>--- Chris Morgan <cmorgan at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I plugged 'half-life' into the search box and got:
>>>>
>>>>http://appdb.winehq.org/search.php?q=half-life
>>>>
>>>>Looks like its working here. What did you search
>>>>for?
>>>>
>>>>I just added 'halflife' as a keyword to the
>>>>half-life application so searching
>>>>for 'halflife' also returns the appropriate results.
>>>>
>>>>Chris
>>>>
>>>>
>>>I found it too, but I believe the problem was that he
>>>was trying to add a specific version (1.0.0.0), and he
>>>got the error. The versions I see on there are
>>>1.1.0.8 and 1.1.1.0
>>>
>>>David, can you elaborate for us?
>>>
>>>Hiji
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>Roger that. I have version 1.0.0.0 of CS and submitted it as such. I
>>entered version "1" of HL having not readily found the version. After
>>more searching I now find I have version 1.0.0.9 Nevertheless, should
>>the CS have been rejected? I see the DB now and I probably didn't
>>submit well. I pasted my original mail to wine-users at winehq.org in the
>>description portion of the form and then got lazy and said "see above"
>>in the following section.
>>
>>
>
>
>
My only thoughts are that as time goes by, older, retail, CD, versions
may be played by more people simply because they have the CD and
WON/update servers are down. The games are still as playable as when
they were introduced. In a restricted environment like a LAN one might
expect less or no cheats/hacks to sour the play of a game like
Counter-Strike. Therefore, making it more enjoyable. An old game
played by someone for the first time is still a new game to them.
I assumed the DB was expected to be exhaustive. If not, my apologies.
My intent on submitting my findings to wine-users at winehq.org was to
share them with anyone who, like me, dug up an old CD for their kids to
play. Since it cost me a couple of hours of futzing, I thought I might
save others the trouble. It is my belief that if one person is doing
something, then a couple of hundred others are too.
It looks like I must become a maintainer to add the version. By the
standard listed in
http://appdb.winehq.org/help/?topic=maintainer_guidelines I do not
qualify as I don't intend to run the app regularly. So I hope my post
to wine-users at winehq.org is sufficient.
Cheers.
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