[ubuntu-uk] BBC's CBBC game 'Adventure Rock'

[Chris Rowson]

>
> It doesn't surprise me at all that they do, though: I think it is a
> typical Establishment expression of the sticky Anglo-American 'special
> relationship' (incidentally, Britain is not the only entity claiming a
> 'special relationship' with the USA).
>
> On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 14:24 +0000, Chris Rowson wrote:
> > My little lad wants to play the new CBBC game 'Adventure Rock' from
> > the BBC on my laptop. It seems that game is available for only for
> > Windows XP however:
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/adventurerock/hints/faq.shtml
> >
> > I'm going to give it a bash on Wine but I'm not sure I'll have much
> > luck.
> >
> > I find it infuriating that the BBC keep locking their products into
> > Microsoft operating systems....
> >
> > Chris
>
>
> Meh, just for anyone who was interested. Running this game in wine doesn't
seem to work easily. Has dependencies on DirectX 9 and Windows Media Player
9+. I can't be bothered to keep going at it! I'll just have to let the
little one use my seldom used Windows partition!!

Chris
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