Re: Re: replying to list (I give up)
| From: | Michiel Sikma | Date: | Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:21:47 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: replying to list (I give up) | ||
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On 24 April 2010 16:14, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
> Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>
> >>
> >> Is there an actual WoW client for Linux or you run in Wine like
> >> environment?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Tommy
> >>
> >
> > I run it under Wine. Wine has come a long way since my first
> > encounters with it a few years back and run a surprising amount of
> > Windows-based software.
>
> Doesn't WoW need DirectX and all that? I have some old Windows games
> (Diablo, Alpha Centauri, Railroad Tycoon, Wolfenstein) I'd love to play
> under Wine, but so far I've not managed to make them work.
>
>
The best way to run old games is via DOSBox. http://www.dosbox.com/ If you
have an Intel machine it should run pretty well (at least the latest version
will; some repos still have the old 0.65 version which is significantly
slower).
Michiel