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Today while browsing around the CodeWeavers site I came across the 2008 CrossOver roadmap that was posted by Jeremy White the CEO of CodeWeavers.
Today while browsing around the CodeWeavers site I came across the 2008 CrossOver roadmap that was posted by Jeremy White the CEO of CodeWeavers. About three paragraphs into the roadmap Jeremy reveals that they plan to release a gaming product in the next couple weeks, called CrossOver Games.
In the next few weeks we are going to launch a new product called 'CrossOver Games'. CrossOver Games is an entry level product that lets you play a broad range of games, particularly games with a lot of replayability such as MMOs like World of Warcraft and the range of games from Valve (e.g. Team Fortress 2, CSS, and so on). CrossOver Games will be available for free to any of our CrossOver Mac or Linux Professional customers. The idea is that we will rev CrossOver Games more quickly than regular CrossOver, so as to better take advantage of all of the great work being done on Wine with respect to games. The regular CrossOver will continue on a more stable and reliable pace. We're doing this in part to try to generate some buzz and interest; we feel like Rodney Dangerfield when it comes to games - we'd like to earn some respect. We feel strongly that CrossOver will be the finest way to run games on a Linux or Mac system, and we want to shout that from the rooftops!
WoW! it looks as if the folks at TransGaming are in for a little competition for Linux and Mac gamers. And the best thing is if your a current CrossOVer customer you get a free copy of CrossOVer Games!
I might actually run this. After learning the hard way that Transgaming's Cedega actually has rather terrible support (as in none at all), I have been running the few Win games I run under Linux using vanilla Wine. Crossover I do trust though for support, and I trust that when they say they will frequently update it, they will.
I had to install WINE on my partner's machine last night. The people she chats with on the social networking board she uses post links to pages containing Shockwave content, which she can't view on Linux. So I installed WINE, and a trial version of Crossover, and installed Firefox for windows, and the Shockwave plugin, so now she can view the damned shockwave stuff. I'm pretty impressed with the latest versions of WINE, it has run almost everything I've thrown at it, sometimes the GUI isn't quite right, like with the Java app that required DirectX - DirectX content ran fine, the GUI kept breaking up.
I'm also impressed with Crossover, it makes installing Windows apps on Linux dead easy, and uninstalling them actually removes all trace of them (unlike the same process on Windows). Having a separate container for each installed Windows app is a good move as it facilitates the uninstall and you can if necessary fiddle with the settings necessary to get it working without interfering with other stable applications.
Shockwave seems to be a dead end. Not even OSX/x86 is not supported. It would appear that adobe is simply letting shockwave wither and die.
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