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JQuinton
11-28-2002, 11:06 AM
:) I hope everyone will have a great thanksgiving! I just turned my pc into a linux box this week! :D Everything went smoothly...I opted to install Red Hat 7.0. :p Love it!
During my pc days I was a big fan a god-games such as Civilization, Empire Earth, Emporer Dune, Command and Conquer, etc. Are there games similiar to these made to run in Linux. I am not sure I can run Wine because I totally erased my Windows from the hard drive. I am going 100% Linux! :D
Can anyone recommend some nice god-games for Linux??? :confused:
thanks for your help! :cool:
freeciv = native linux civilization clone
civ 3 runs under winex
warcraft 3 runs under winex
mrBen
11-28-2002, 11:15 AM
Lincity is a SimCity clone for Linux.
Also, check out http://www.linuxgames.com
Lemming
11-28-2002, 11:30 AM
u might want to try www.linuxgaming.co.uk as well, that's a pretty useful site.
Hitokiri_X
11-28-2002, 07:15 PM
freecnc (http://holarse.wue.de/freecnc/) allows you to use files from original C&C games.Also Freecraft (http://www.freecraft.org/) .
Lemming
11-28-2002, 09:47 PM
oh btw, wine does work without windows installed
animex2
11-28-2002, 11:16 PM
where can i get winex and how is it different from wine?
TheGimp
11-29-2002, 03:14 AM
http://icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php
Hitokiri_X
11-29-2002, 04:46 AM
Originally posted by animex2
where can i get winex and how is it different from wine?
TransGaming (http://www.transgaming.com/) You know you can find alot of stuff if you jsut use Google :P.As for the difference,winex has directx support.
JQuinton
12-02-2002, 12:04 PM
Lemming:
So I can use wine without having Windows installed. But how do I install my windows-based games??? :confused: :confused: :confused:
bwkaz
12-02-2002, 02:30 PM
Err, run the installer using wine...
Find the setup.exe (or whatever it is) on the CD, and from somewhere else in the directory tree (like /mnt/windows for example), do a wine -- /path/to/setup.exe or whatever.
Most of the time, with recent winex's or wine's, that should work. The times it won't will be when the game uses a newer version of InstallShield than was a couple versions older than current when winex (or wine) was released.
Lemming
12-03-2002, 09:07 AM
Also some games just don't want to work with winex, it's sad but true.
For example, one of my favourite games, Oni, just won't work on winex :(
EDIT: I've just read, about 1minute after making my post that it will work on wine, but very jerkilly, yay
Molecule Man
12-03-2002, 06:09 PM
You might want to buy Kohan from Transgaming (http://www.transgaming.com) . I did and love the game. It is an RTS somewhat similiar to Myth II but has some city management.