MS game Risk II - question from newbie

[Brian Chase]

I'm also reading good things about Win4Lin and Crossover

albi wrote:

> Brian Chase wrote:
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>> So what was the answer to the Risk game question on ubuntu?
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> see below what i've basically wrote :
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> (i didn't suggest getting addicted to another game, that might the best
> solution ;-)
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> djyoung wrote:
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> hi,
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> > I want to permanently dump my MS XP - accept for my husband plays Risk
> > II on Windows, can someone offer me a direction? Ive heard and read
> > about emulators, Wine, WineX ect and have no clue here. if i can get
> > Risk II somehow on Warty i can kiss MS goodbye forever - links, 
> info, ect - anything!
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> Wine is a nice project but you can't rely on it to run your apps 
> properly, Wine is still in the so-called Alpha-stage, and your app may
> run with a certain Wine-version and not with another Wine-version
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> WineX was based on Wine and meant for running games, WineX is now called
> Cedega, it's made by TransGaming, and commercial software, see here :
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> http://www.transgaming.com/
> http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/
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> Another thing to try is Qemu, if your machine is reasonably fast
> (say, > 1 Ghz, and >= 512 Mb RAM) you might want to try this
> http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
> Qemu is open-source software and free of charge
>
> VMWare is another (not so cheap) option, see :
> http://www.vmware.com/
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> apart from all this you can of course try Wine as a last resort,
> here's a website with some Wine-tips :
> http://frankscorner.org/
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