> D'oh!  There goes my idea of playing a lot of really cool 
> Windows games
> on the stability of Linux.  Oh well, still be good to play around with
> WMWare/Win4Lin/Wine and see what trouble I get into.

You can play some Direct X games under Wine.  Starcraft works, and I'm
pretty sure someone got Diablo 2 working also.  



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fjorn [mailto:fjorn at mninter.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 5:08 AM
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:23742] WINE vs. VM-Ware
> 
> 
> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> 
> >         the sucky part of VMware is that games that use 
> DirectX won't work
> > on it. :( so you need a separate box to play Diablo 2 on. :(
> > 
> D'oh!  There goes my idea of playing a lot of really cool 
> Windows games
> on the stability of Linux.  Oh well, still be good to play around with
> WMWare/Win4Lin/Wine and see what trouble I get into.
> 
> >         I use it at work for development environments; so I 
> can maintain a
> > clean environment to work with. best trick that VMWare 
> allows you to do:
> > 1. install your OS and apps
> > 2. shut it down
> > 3. tar & bz2 all the files in the appropriate VMware subdirectory
> > (all 4 of them.. nice and simple).
> > 4. when your original install gets too crufty, blow it away 
> and untar your
> > saved disk image. :)
> > 
> 
> Sorta like a Ghost image then.  Cool none the less, far better than
> reloading the whole system over again.
> 
> 
> Shawn
> 
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