Well, that was satisfyingly geeky.
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Well, that was satisfyingly geeky.
05-05-2008 8:18 PM
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Starcraft running under wine on eeeXubuntu on an Asus eee
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05-05-2008 11:20 PM
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Last time I tried wine, it crashed when I tried to scroll down using a scroll bar!!!!
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06-05-2008 12:08 AM
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what's the laptop you have lurking in the background?
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06-05-2008 2:46 AM
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Quote from: okrzynska Last time I tried wine, it crashed when I tried to scroll down using a scroll bar!!!!
Yes i gave up on wine sometime ago after many hair pulling moments
Well done to you though Kelly, neat !
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06-05-2008 10:31 AM
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Quote from: artificer not bad. i fancy one of those eee machines myself, though i'll wait until they use the whole screen area and produce a slightly larger one.
what's the laptop you have lurking in the background?
The new eee900 uses the full area for the screen. Out now!
The laptop is a Vaio. Can't remember the model number. Widescreen though, for scale.
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06-05-2008 10:34 AM
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Once that was on it was just a sudo apt-get install wine and then putting the starcraft CD in! *laughs*
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06-05-2008 11:13 AM
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Can't you just open up the terminal (some key combo including 'T') and 'sudo apt-get install wine' from there?
B.
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06-05-2008 5:31 PM
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06-05-2008 5:40 PM
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Quote from: Kelly The new eee900 uses the full area for the screen. Out now!
Toy`R`Us in Northampton had stock at the weekend of the new larger screen model running XP, but at £330
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06-05-2008 7:43 PM
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11-05-2008 2:39 AM
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Quote from: okrzynska You mean wine actually does something?
Last time I tried wine, it crashed when I tried to scroll down using a scroll bar!!!!
Well I've found Wine to run pretty well from my experience,
so I guess I'm either lucky or I don't run enough applications under wine on Linux to really have any problems.
It even emulates my own Windows programs written with VB6, and run just as good as they do on Windows...
I can run most Steam Games on Linux, as good as it runs on Windows, so long as you select OpenGL rendering you're fine.
Any libraries than can run native will always run faster, hence why in OpenGL mode the Games run well because Wine just reverts to the native linux .so modules instead of Emulating DirectX.
It will handel 2D DirectX fine I think, 3D will run particularly slow no matter what optimisations on graphics you do.
@Kelly: I ran StarCraft, Unreal and UT(99) under Wine, on SuSE Linux 91, on an old PII Laptop.
The EEE PC should be capable to handel even the likes of UT2003 (Has Intel 9xx Grpahics right?), but it will probably much power.
Jim,
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20-05-2008 6:33 PM
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Do you recommend it then Kelly? Can I plug in an external hard drive with plenty of my movies/music burnt onto it to entertain myself? Do you know of anyone using the 900 yet and is it much better and worth the money?
Thanks
Tom
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20-05-2008 6:37 PM
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http://community.plus.net/blog/2008/05/15/first-impressions-on-my-asus-eee/
If you are going to get one, get one of the bigger models, as the 2G Surf is a bit limited. Jamie at PlusNet has a 900 and is very happy with it. I think they are just the little bit to expensive.
Also, if you have big hands, I suggest you try one before you buy, just in case!
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20-05-2008 6:42 PM
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I am currently using a HTC Tytn II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_TyTN_II and don't really have a problem with those keys.
So it has a video player available? I'm assuming that things like itunes and Windows Media Player are all available through Wine?
Don't happen to know if its sand proof?
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20-05-2008 7:14 PM
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* OK, `Running` may be an overstatement, crawling may be a better way of putting it!
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