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[ILUG] Linux gaming, good news maybe

[ILUG] Linux gaming, good news maybe

Vincent Cunniffe vincent at cunniffe.net
Fri Feb 22 22:51:44 GMT 2002


Steffen Higel wrote:
> Vincent Cunniffe wrote:
> 
>>Yep, it's true. I subscribe to their service, already have Broodwars
>>running on my X desktop.
>>
>>I associated stuff like .exe with WineX, so I put a game CD into my
>>machine, it pops up on the desktop, I doubleclick setup.exe, and it's
>>installin' time ;-)
>>
> 
> Out of interest, do things like copy protection using bad sector checks
> on the cd work well, or are you forced to work around it by some other
> method?

Transgaming have licenced the most common protection schemes, so I believe
they work.

However, if you have a valid CD, i wouldn't feel at all guilty about going
out and finding one of the cracks which appear 11.6 minutes after the
first CD shows up on a shelf ;-)

Vin





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