I just forked out €15 for a three month subscription to Transgaming’s Cedega – the portability product that allows you to run Windows games seamlessly on Linux. As much as I hate to say it, it was money well spent. After hours of recompiling several different versions of Wine, and troubleshooting minor bits and pieces that made some of the newer games just barely unplayable, I decided that it is just too much effort and the time that Cedega would save me is worth more than €5 per month. In other words, spurred on by a blast of nostalgia, I needed a fix of World of Warcraft immediately. Cedega did exactly what it said on the tin, and it surpassed my expectations by running Civilization 4 flawlessly. I’m told that there is even support for Oblivion and Age of Empires III… if only I had the inclination to find the CDs.
Unfortunately, WoW is just as boring as when I quit playing it over a year ago… only this time around my few buddies in-game are all gone (except for Spaceman). My once-buzzing guild was empty bar one other member… and he was 8 months idle. I’ll try to give it a few hours here and there but I don’t think I’ll ever reach level 60.
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Oh, wow… wish I had something like this for my Mac. Warcraft runs on Mac of course, but I’d love to try out City of Villains and a few things like that! I know there’s bootcamp of course, but rebooting is a pain, especially since I like to run a handful of things at once and multitask or go back and forth frequently. It’s been a long time since I used Linux.
Take a look at the Transgaming website – they have a new app called Cider which is basically Cedega on Mac.
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