games is pretty much in its infancy at this point so I hope to see
that grow in the future. My first question as I looked around was
wondering whether gaming apps that were in there had been checked were
checked in Crossover Games or Crossover Office? Maybe I missed it. I
don't know yet.
Anyway, I am really happy to see a second path for Windows gamers
in Linux. That's not really me but I've got one in the house.
Cheers,
Mark
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Jeremy White <jwhite at codeweavers.com>
wrote:> Hi Mark,
>
>
> > Interesting and reasonably priced, but I'm not clear what's
the
> > difference from standard Wine or Transgaming's Cedega?
> >
> > Granted, I only scanned the immediate page and didn't do much
study.
>
> CrossOver is a polished and supported version of Wine. As such,
> it's core is very similar to that of Wine. The primary difference
> from Wine is that we test and insure that a given set of applications work
well,
> and then back that with our customer support.
>
> Transgaming is based on an older version of Wine (although they
> are increasingly bringing in parts of modern Wine as well), and also
> includes some proprietary code. I'm rather biased, but I think that
> modern Wine has now surpassed the proprietary bits that Transgaming
> has, and that, on balance, Wine (and therefore CrossOver) is the
> better overall gaming platform. With that said, there will be
> quite a few cases where it works well in one place, but not the other,
> and vice versa.
>
> From a philosophical perspective, the other crucial difference
> is that all of the work we do on Wine, we give back to WineHQ.
> Transgaming has not had a history of doing the same.
>
> Thus, a dollar spent on CrossOver is a dollar spent on a Wine
> developer. Again, I'm extremely biased, but I think it's a more
> wisely spent dollar <grin>.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy
>
>
