[ Ubuntu-BD ] Game emulator

Sameeul ` Bashir sameeul at gmail.com
Wed May 21 17:53:24 BST 2008


what i knew earliar from hasin vai on saturday, that cedega source is
available and it can be compiled ( though its kind of royal pain). i googled
but failed to find a good way to cedega source. can anybody turn the lights
on?

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Angel <angel.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:

> I didn't tell WINE is an emulator. But I understood, what Sameeul Bashir
> wanted to know.
>
> WINE is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and
> Unix. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows sources
> to Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows binaries to
> run on x86-based Unixes. WINE is free and open source.
>
> CEDEGA is not an Emulator also as well. Cedega (formerly known as WineX) is
> TransGaming Technologies' proprietary fork of Wine (from when the license of
> Wine wasn't the LGPL but the X11 license), which is designed specifically
> for running games written for Microsoft Windows under Linux. As such, its
> primary focus is implementing the DirectX API.
>
> WineX was renamed to Cedega on the release of version 4.0 on June 22, 2004.
>
> Though Cedega is mainly proprietary software, Transgaming does make part of
> the source publicly available via CVS, under a mix of licenses.
>
>
>
>
> 2008/5/21 Masum Masum <a.h.m.masum at gmail.com>:
>
>> WINE Is Not an EMulator
>>
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