On Saturday 23 June 2007 19:51, Earle Beason wrote:

and i would try to get some of the game manufactures to put games in Linux

Why would they bother to do that when they can just make it for Windows and it will work with your little emulation?

P.S. What you described is exactly what WINE does, except that WINE implements the APIs and such so as to avoid actual emulation and as a result runs stuff faster than Windows would.

I totally agree with you. I, and many others, have totally replaced Windows with Linux EXCEPT for games. You still can't go to the local store and get a copy of the latest kick-ass game and play it in Linux. If game vendors could get their minds around this, Windows would be in much doo doo. OpenGL has to get with it harder than they have though.

On 6/23/07, Earle Beason Earle-Beason@kc.rr.com wrote:

Well, This seems to be a no brainier to me, but it in the games.

Face it, most Microsoft users, use it to play games. This is a week spot in Linux. If I could figure out how to do it, I would come up with a way to emulate windows from 98 to currant and customize it so that people could emulate any common version of direct X.

Then I would pass it around, saying look here a "Freebie" that will let you play your games, and i would try to get some of the game manufactures to put games in Linux _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug