CrossOver Games for FreeBSD

An anonymous reader writes "Jeremy White from CodeWeavers has made the announcement that an experimental build of CrossOver Games is now available for PC-BSD users. However, this unsupported edition should also work on FreeBSD or DesktopBSD, allowing users to play Windows games on their desktop. The FreeBSD version of CrossOver Games can be downloaded here (registration required)." From the attached notes: "Remember this is an experimental build! If you are on FreeBSD 6.x, you will need to apply a system patch from http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine to enable wine to function properly. Users of FreeBSD 7.0 and higher do not need this patch."

Re:Better than regular Crossover for games?

[bain]

It's Crossover with focus on games. you can still install office etc if you want, there is just no support for it.

Maybe the problem is OS X and Apple not Crossover. I run HL2 and a number of other games with more than decent frame rates and everything looks fine.

Re:Windows User

[tepples]

I am pretty close to being a n00b, but can't the source simply be recompiled for Win32?

Win32 and UNIX have different application programming interfaces. Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista Business and Ultimate, and Windows Server can run recompiled UNIX apps through SFU (pre-Vista) or SUA (Vista and later), but the software that allows this is not available for Windows XP Home Edition, Windows Vista Home Basic, or even Windows Vista Home Premium. So you have to do it The Hard Way: either implement one set of functions in terms of the other (Wine or Cygwin) or make a generic API implemented in terms of both (wxWidgets or Allegro) in order to get a program to compile on both.

Re:twm support

[makomk]

Wine is very much dependent on a good window manager to work properly. ISTR one of the developers mentioning that using an unsuitable/poor window manager actually caused some of the tests to fail, since it affected window behaviour.