From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 10 8:57:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iisc.ernet.in (iisc.ernet.in [144.16.64.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32A8E37B70E for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 08:57:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by iisc.ernet.in (8.9.2/8.9.0) with SMTP id VAA00911 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 21:27:57 +0530 (IST) Received: (qmail 803 invoked from network); 10 May 2000 15:44:26 -0000 Received: from sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.27) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 10 May 2000 15:44:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 5910 invoked by uid 211); 10 May 2000 15:44:25 -0000 Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 21:14:25 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: J McKitrick Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware vs wine Message-ID: <20000510211425.B5875@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000510135623.C86743@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000510135623.C86743@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 01:56:23PM +0100 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.31 i486 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG J McKitrick said on May 10, 2000 at 13:56:23: > Any thoughts on which one might be better for simply graphics games on > windows? I'd like to play an old lucasfilm game that uses DirectX and > sound, and i can't decide which emulator to use. I found wine works quite respectably for games like Tetris, on a 200 MHz Pentium with 32 MB RAM. That was a long time ago. Those things don't use either DirectX or sound, but I think wine supports both. I've heard VMWare needs much more RAM to run. Probably depends on how powerful your machine is... I'd say no harm in trying out wine, it's free. And if it can be used to run the release version Corel's WordPerfect Office, it can't be too bad. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message