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From: Julian Peterson <weaver@earthcorp.com>
To: Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net>,
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Subject: Re: StarCraft in wine
Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 12:32:31 -0500
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On Sat, 11 May 2002 12:13 pm, Lord Raiden wrote:
> At 06:28 PM 5/9/02 -0700, Christopher J. Umina wrote:
> >I don't know if you noticed, but you can't run Office without REGISTRY
> >FILES.
>
>          Personally, this sounds like something to add as a feature in
> Wine.  If a program requires registry entries, then have Wine store and
> use a virtual registry for those apps.
>

It does already =3D)

The issues with Office are related to having to reverse engineer all of=20
the API calls that it can possbly make use of.

Games probably have a better chance of working since they likely only use=
=20
a relatively small set of functions, or perhaps just more well defined=20
ones.  In any case I successfully run Diablo II, Warcraft II, and=20
Starcraft under Wine, all without Windows at all.


Julian.

--=20
A child of five could understand this!  Fetch me a child of five.



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