Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 12:32:31 -0500 From: Julian Peterson <weaver@earthcorp.com> To: Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net>, "Christopher J. Umina" <uminac@fritzilldo.com>, "Naughty Taz" <naughty_taz@hotmail.com>, "'Scott Owens'" <sowens@cs.utah.edu>, "'Kal Torak'" <kaltorak@quake.com.au> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: StarCraft in wine Message-ID: <200205111232.31145.weaver@earthcorp.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020511131104.009e1f00@pop.netzero.net> References: <005301c1f7b0$af5591d0$626a003e@homepc> <4.2.0.58.20020511131104.009e1f00@pop.netzero.net>
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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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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