Simple but awesome demos of Wine?

[Evil Jay]

It's too bad you can't count on an internet Connection.  WoW and City of
Heroes/Villains are two of the most impressive looking (and fast) games
under Wine, IMHO.  Heck, even just the login screen for WoW might be a
nice show - with the dracolich constantly landing/taking off while it's
snowing.

I wouldn't recommend Counter-Strike: Source.  It needs to be forced to
DirectX8 mode to achieve a usable speed, and in that mode it looks
pretty poor up next to what people are used seeing on the average
Windows machine.

Though boring to some, I think you made a good choice including
DreamWeaver - as the native apps just haven't caught up, yet.

-J



Seth Shelnutt wrote:
> Dan,
>
> As far as games go, off the top of my head there is WoW, and
> Guildwars. Battlefield 2/2142 both seem good choice. Counter Strike:
> Source and COD4 are gold rated. Lastly Crysis is gold rated too. There
> is an issue with punkbuster but that only effects online play.
>
> 3Dmark06 seems to work to some degree,
> http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=13809
> <http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=13809> .
>
> Also it might be interesting to show off, how Wine works with CUDA,
> http://gpu2.twomurs.com/index.php?title=Main_Page . There are some
> emails on the mailing list back when I first started working on the
> wrapper. I think it shows just how advanced Wine is. Not only can it
> run a windows program but with a wrapper it transfers the calls from
> windows dll to linux .so to the GPU, with stellar performance.
>
>
> -Seth Shelnutt
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com
> <mailto:dank at kegel.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm going to be giving a Wine presentation at
>     Cebit next month.   You can see a draft of the
>     presentation at
>     http://kegel.com/wine/cebit2009/talk.html
>     (I will say lots more than is written there; the
>     slides are kept simple on purpose, with just
>     the key idea in the caption.)
>
>     A large part of the presentation
>     will be demos of platium-rated apps.
>     Can people suggest compelling apps to demo?
>     Right now my list is kind of boring-sounding:
>      Framemaker 7
>      Kid Pix
>      gp-Untis
>      Photoshop cs2
>      Futuretax
>      Dreamweaver
>
>     It'd be nice to also have some games, but I don't
>     play enough to know which ones to pick.   I suspect
>     online games are out, since I can't count on an
>     internet connection.
>
>     I'm tempted to write an autohotkey script to demo each
>     app so I don't have to worry about fumbling mouse
>     clicks while on stage.  The ability to script would be
>     a nice demo itself.
>
>     This show is a big opportunity for us to
>     introduce Wine to a large audience, so
>     any help here would be appreciated.
>
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