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

[Harry Rickards]

On 14 Mar 2009, at 18:32, Paul Sutton <zleap at zleap.net> wrote:

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> 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
>>
>>
> I thought of a solution to this,  online petition site, on the ubuntu
> site,  similar in style to the parliment one,  but this could be for
> users to campaign for specific ports, etc.
>
> Or simply an open source site somewhere that can faclitate this.
>
> Paul
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If you have a copy of XP around, you coil install it in VirtualBox if  
you've got enough memory.

Harry


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