[GLLUG] Laurel Park Room

[Caleb Cushing]

Cedega used to be called Winex they took most of their source from wine this
is true However they have made there own additions, and have geared there
program towards gaming. They also cost money but have a 14 day free trial...
we can use that unless someone thinks it will take more than 14 days to get
the games working. As far as a moral gearing towards wine, we're trying to
show off linux, and prove that it can do everything windows can better, I
may not agree with transgamings actions but I don't think not showing of
games for moral reasons we have will help. Jason your machine sounds good
and although I plan to have mine up again by then... dead now, Perhaps you
would be willing to let us use it for the gaming machine at penguicon? If
you want we could even use my hard drive It's image should be easily adapted
to the changes in your hardware. I 128 cd folder full that only has pc games
in it. I have most of the blockbusters that will be played.

I don't think we have to worry so much about them (gamers)pirating off the
internet, but each other, and they may use our CD's to do it, which means
big sign with disclaimer.

as far as the bandwith goes maybe we should setup a proxy to cache the pages
so people get the most common stuff from the inside instead of the outside.

On 3/8/06, Jason Green <jave27 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> (grr... forgot to reply-to-all again..  ;-)
>
> On 3/8/06, Charles Ulrich <charles at idealso.com> wrote:
> > Caleb Cushing wrote:
> > > I think I'm going to now really try to get us a game playing box for
> our
> > > open source show off... I'll ask cedega for a license for this
> purpose,
> > > I don't want to pay them... But I have no problems giving them free
> > > advertising. My machine can work but I really need an nVidia video
> card,
> > > prefferable a much newer one than my ATI Does anyone have one they
> could
> > > lend for the purpose of this box? or have an Idea of how we could
> > > acquire one? just basing what I want on price... I'm looking for
> > > something that would run retail of $200 because we need the box to
> keep
> > > up... the rest of my specs are up to spar but my videocard is ancient.
> > > It'll run modern games but not well all the time. If it can run them
> > > well it can'r run them pretty.
>
> I haven't entirely committed to going yet, but I'm leaning towards
> going at the moment...  It's sounding more and more fun.  :-)  Anyway,
> I have a relatively powerful machine that could probably fit the bill
> on this.  It's an AMD64 3400+, ASUS A8V Deluxe, 1 GB Dual-Channel RAM,
> SATA 160 GB drive and another 160 ATA drive (the SATA is strictly
> Linux), with an XFX nVidia 6600 GT 128MB DDR3.  The video card retails
> about $160 now and has run fast enough for everything I've thrown at
> it recently.  System runs Ubuntu Breezy AMD64 with a 32-bit Dapper
> chroot used for Wine and other 32-bit apps.
>
> I've been toying with Wine recently and learning the source code so I
> can assist with the project.  The latest Wine runs quite a bit already
> and the DirectX implementation is under heavy development right now.
> Some #winehq regulars on irc.freenode.net claim that Cedega is
> basically stealing their source code, but I can't vouch for that.
> Anyway, if I can get access to some recent games that are marked as
> Gold or Platinum in http://appdb.winehq.org, then I'd be willing to
> offer my machine for the weekend.  If we get a Cedega license, then
> all the better for "Linux show-off" purposes, but based on the
> accusations, I'm leary of supporting them or giving away advertising
> without knowing more for sure.
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/public/linux-user/attachments/20060308/cc54bb7f/attachment.html