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by **Sunnz** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:32

cvill64 wrote:You just buy the game, have the cd/dvd, then emerge it from portage and ahve the cd/dvd in your reader and emerge will do the rest

emerge quake4 or emerge ut2004 or emerge doom3

Are they being compiled from source or are they emulated through wine or something?

by **wolfden** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:46

those games are native linux games, no emulation, they are actually installed

by **Sunnz** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 9:27

So how do I know whether the CD I am going to buy will have Linux version on it? Like WOW?

by **wolfden** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 9:49

On the software box it normally tells you what operating systems it supports - if not, do some research.

WOW does not have a linux install. For games, many use Cedega to play windows games in linux. Sometime you can get wine or crossover to play some. I got Guild Wars to work with Wine.

WOW howto -- http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-246098.html

Check out
http://frankscorner.org/

for other game howtos

by **Sunnz** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:36

Ok thanks... I don't think I'll ever buy any Windows-only games though.

by **XScorpion2** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 13:04

Sunnz wrote:Ok thanks... I don't think I'll ever buy any Windows-only games though.

you would be suprised by how many windows games you can get to work using wine or cedega. All of the current games I play outside of one (EQ2) I got to work in linux very well. Also the last one will be supported by Cedega soon.

by **Sunnz** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 13:30

Lol true!!! But I don't like to support companies who make games only for Windows... I am a very very casual gamer.

by **kennylog** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 15:38

some linux favorites of mine are frozen bubble and x-moto, very well made!

try them! now :d

by **cvill64** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 22:48

Sunnz wrote:Lol true!!! But I don't like to support companies who make games only for Windows... I am a very very casual gamer.

ColdWar, UT, Quake, all of them companies have decided to open their arms to linux

by **KRiSX** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:52

cvill64 wrote:You just buy the game, have the cd/dvd, then emerge it from portage and ahve the cd/dvd in your reader and emerge will do the rest

emerge quake4 or emerge ut2004 or emerge doom3

i tried "emerge quake3" tonight and it seemed to do it... but it didn't copy the pak files over as suggested above...

unless it doesn't work with quake3?? or maybe i need to do quake3-bin instead of quake3 ??

any clues? cheers

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