TransGaming's WINE

[Tim Schmidt]

Before I left for spring break I DL'd TransGaming's WINE tree from 
www.transgaming.com (the code is hosted by SourceForge using CVS).  I 
compiled it, installed it, and configured it (a cinch -- anyone can do a 
./configure, make, make install, and then run wineconfig).  I've had 
excellent experience playing Windows games on Linux.  Games are teh only 
thing that I can't find a decent native version of for Linux, so it makes 
perfect sense to use WINE to do the job.  TransGaming has beefed up Directx 
support for it, and even the beta (or alpha, or whatever WINE is) seems to 
do a great job.

I have Red Alert 2 running flawlesly (well, not entirely, audio is slightly 
mangled, but understandable -- graphics are flawless, and it hasn't 
crashed/given me any goofy errors)

I also have Total Annihilation running absolutely flawlessly.  Audio/video 
all works 100%.  Excellent.

Perhaps another meeting topic -- bring in games and/or other software and 
throw them at the latest WINE.

--Tim
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