[Wine]Speed of wine programs, Autocad 2000, Simcity 4

JLB jlb at twu.net
Mon Jul 12 11:56:20 CDT 2004


On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Mike Hearn wrote:

> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:48:44 +0100
> From: Mike Hearn <mike at navi.cx>
> To: Radu MOLNAR <taipan at hawat.cc.ubbcluj.ro>
> Cc: JLB <jlb at twu.net>, wine-users at winehq.com
> Subject: Re: [Wine]Speed of wine programs, Autocad 2000, Simcity 4
>
> On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 09:28 +0300, Radu MOLNAR wrote:
> > I agrre with this all the way. I tried opening a discusion on this subject
> > on the freebsd-questions list but all i found out was that bsd people (i
> > think the feeling is the same in the linux comunity) are not intrested in
> > games at all.
>
> Oh, we're interested in games, it's just a matter of resources. There
> are very few people working on games support in WineHQ Wine, most of the
> motivation was taken away by TransGaming. Why work on the free version
> when you can just subscribe over there?
>
> The people who get paid to work on regular Wine are paid to work on
> apps. The people who aren't tend to be working on Wine because they want
> a particular app to work :) I poke games occasionally but don't play
> them very much, so it's not surprising people like me focus on games.
>
> For what it's worth Wine doesn't currently work on FreeBSD 4.10+
> -STABLE/-CURRENT anyway. Right now it's basically Linux only, as far as
> I know :(

Which is PATHETIC, as it should work on ANY Un*xlike system on an x86.

>
> thanks -mike
>
>
>

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