[GLLUG] Penguicon Subcommittee Meeting, Tuesday April 18

[Jason Green]

Sorry, this was meant to go to the whole list:

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From: Jason Green <jave27 at gmail.com>
Date: Apr 17, 2006 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Penguicon Subcommittee Meeting, Tuesday April 18
To: Charles Ulrich <charles at idealso.com>


On 4/17/06, Charles Ulrich <charles at idealso.com> wrote:
> issues and questions that may arise. Those working on the following
> subprojects are asked to either attend or email with me their status
> and/or questions:
>
> - Linux Gaming Demo

Caleb and I fought rather hard with Wine and Cedega on Friday with
very few positive results.  I can say honestly, though, that Cedega
isn't worth purchasing at all.  Only 2 of their "Supported" games
actually worked (of the 6 or so that we tried), and even that was
after serious hacking and questionable exe swapping with magic "Game
Fixes" floating around the net.  We were able to succesfully get
Civilization 4 and Doom 3 to run smoothly inside the Cedega Time Demo.
 I'll probably still register it anyway just to get rid of the
transparent overlay that they place on the screen during the game, if
only to be able to play those 2 games.

Wine, on the other hand, takes a little reading and configuration on a
per-app basis, but I've made some headway getting a few things to work
correctly.  Half Life 2 and Counterstrike: Source "sort of" work at
the moment...  I'm working with some of the other wine developers to
make this a bit smoother, but I think it should be ready shortly.
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy (yeah, long title), works
flawlessly single player, though I haven't tried Multiplayer yet.

There is pretty good support for older games in Wine (read, anything
DirectX 7.0 or earlier), provided the copy protection isn't too evil.
I'm planning on setting up a user account that only has access to
these games and placing icons on the desktop which hide all of the
app-specific stuff that's needed to run each one.  That way it will at
least look like it's easy...  ;-)

I'm not sure that I'll be able to make the meeting tomorrow night, but
I will try.  Probably won't know until tomorrow afternoon.

I live about 3 miles from the hotel in Livonia where Penguicon will be
held, so I'll get up there early to setup the station, but I can't
stay all night.  What time do others plan on getting there?  I'm fine
with leaving my stuff there as long as someone will be nearby to keep
an eye on things.

Thanks!