Bah!  Diablo II is awesome!

/* Greg Evans  Minneapolis, MN - gje at visi.com cens at geeks.org
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On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Fjorn wrote:

> "Austad, Jay" wrote:
> 
> > You can play some Direct X games under Wine.  Starcraft works, and I'm
> > pretty sure someone got Diablo 2 working also.
> > 
> 
> The older games for the most part I've noticed work.  Diablo 2 haven't
> played yet.  In a way, I'm sorta doing a protest against them.  It took
> them what, 4 years to come out with D2?  It was in production for 75% fo
> that time.  It was constantly being pushed back, and therefore
> continually making me more ticked off at them.  Now, I see D2, and it's
> not that much different from the original.
> 
> The newer games, particularly Everquest, are ones that interest me on
> getting ported.  If the people keep looking at the old ones, then there
> won't be much push to get the new ones ported over or even somewhat
> released for the Linux OS.  That's a large part of the problem that Mac
> faced, and continues to face.  If they were lucky enough to get the game
> to be developed for Mac OS (because of either demand for it or the
> developers wanted to get money from an extra market), it was 6 months
> down the line, and sometimes the product wasn't as good.  In rare cases,
> it was better.
> 
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