[geeks] Mac definitions

[Phil Stracchino]

On 07/07/11 15:32, Andrew Jones wrote:
> On 07/07/2011 02:18 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>
>> But you can be arsed to get WINE working, then dink around with stuff to
>> make it work in WINE....?  The times I've tried it, it's worked so badly
>> and so unevenly I decided it just wasn't worth the trouble.
>>
> 
> It's pretty simple.
> 
> 1. I check the WineHQ App DB to avoid wasting my time.
> 2. I use a dedicated WINEPREFIX for every game, every time.
> 3. I install the game and play.
> 
> Step 1 prevents me from having to tinker with stuff.  (If there's any 
> tinkering worth doing, it will say so, at the top of the darn page.)
> 
> Wine is way better than it was ten years ago.  Getting Starcraft 1 to 
> work in Wine required some fiddling.  Getting Starcraft 2 to work was a 
> matter of, uh, running the installer.

Heh.  That's an improvement.  :)


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