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:Windows User

[TheRealMindChild]

Actually, just wait. This is just mindless speculation, but don't you think it is interesting that VMWare [vmware.com] bought [wordpress.com] Thinstall [thinstall.com]?

All of a sudden, you have an application that can emulate a whole machine, merging with something that can take an application an all its dependencies and wrap it into a single executable. Call me crazy, but I think you will start seeing a product where you can wrap your favorite app, along with an underlying supporting OS running on a virtual machine, to target any other OS you want.

Better than regular Crossover for games?

[DurendalMac]

Or is it CrossOver with everything else whittled out? I tried Crossover on OS X and was very disappointed. Sure, Half-life 2 ran...at half the framerate and with DX8 support so everything looked like ass. It was pathetic. Also, if your program isn't on the supported list, don't expect it to run. I'll stick with VMWare and Boot Camp and leave CrossOver out of it.

twm support

[Anonymous Coward]

Last time I tried to get wine running under freebsd it freaked out with twm. And as most freebsd users are die-hard twm fanatics, this could be a problem. Have they fixed the twm stuff in wine now?

Re:twm support

[nawcom]

that's strange, wine, from what i know, has no direct link to the window manager you choose to run on X. hell, I have at times set up startx options so it doesn't run a window manager, it simply fills the root background black or whatever wallpaper i want, and it launches the game via wine.

I'm the blackbox/fluxbox/enlightenment user myself, so I don't have any experience with using tab on freebsd; I'm just referring to what i know about the wine source code. If there is an issue with tab window manager, it has to have been fixed by now :)

Re:twm support

[Solra Bizna]

twm's window behavior is different from what most apps expect, enough so that sometimes they explode.

-:sigma.SB

(twm user who is forced to use sawfish to get good workspace support)