[Wine] CodeWeavers released CrossOver Games today!

[Dean Hamstead]

For some time transgamings product of cedega did do better at games that 
wine. However, for over a year now wine has been vastly superior to 
cedega. I left cedega, as you are paying for minor patches to fix 
counter-strike and wow - neither of which i play.

Wine for me is largely for Dawn of War. However i have also spent the 
time to get Stubbs the Zombie (and played it through, and posted on 
appdb), Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 (played, added to appdb) and swat4
to run. I also play halflife2 mp from time to time.

Many of the aforementioned games dont even get close to working in
cedega, which meant apt-get remove cedega came as a very natural and 
pleasurable experience.

Bottom line is that Transgaming is abandoning their customers in favour 
of cider, their mac product.

Codeweavers drive wine, good work guys and gals. If i needed office i 
would buy it!

But would someone please fix the mouse wrapping bug? :)

Dean

Jeremy White wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
>> Interesting and reasonably priced, but I'm not clear what's the
>> difference from standard Wine or Transgaming's Cedega?
>>
>> Granted, I only scanned the immediate page and didn't do much study.
> 
> CrossOver is a polished and supported version of Wine.  As such,
> it's core is very similar to that of Wine.  The primary difference
> from Wine is that we test and insure that a given set of applications work well,
> and then back that with our customer support.
> 
> Transgaming is based on an older version of Wine (although they
> are increasingly bringing in parts of modern Wine as well), and also
> includes some proprietary code.  I'm rather biased, but I think that
> modern Wine has now surpassed the proprietary bits that Transgaming
> has, and that, on balance, Wine (and therefore CrossOver) is the
> better overall gaming platform.  With that said, there will be
> quite a few cases where it works well in one place, but not the other,
> and vice versa.
> 
>>From a philosophical perspective, the other crucial difference
> is that all of the work we do on Wine, we give back to WineHQ.
> Transgaming has not had a history of doing the same.
> 
> Thus, a dollar spent on CrossOver is a dollar spent on a Wine
> developer.  Again, I'm extremely biased, but I think it's a more
> wisely spent dollar <grin>.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> 

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