Fwd: EVE online losing its Linux Client

2009-02-09 Thread Andrew Fenn
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:22 PM, James Mckenzie wrote: > Since there is not a great Wine audience for the Mac, the Eve Online Mac > client should not be abandoned just for that reason. The real reason may be > that there is not a great deal of demand for an on-line game interface for > the Mac.

Re: EVE online losing its Linux Client

2009-02-09 Thread James Mckenzie
François Guerraz wrote: >Sent: Feb 9, 2009 1:32 AM >To: Chris Robinson >Cc: wine-devel@winehq.org >Subject: Re: EVE online losing its Linux Client > >On 9/02/09 3:55, Chris Robinson wrote: >> On Sunday 08 February 2009 6:17:38 pm Zachary Goldberg wrote: >> >

Re: EVE online losing its Linux Client

2009-02-09 Thread Chris Robinson
On Monday 09 February 2009 12:32:51 am François Guerraz wrote: > Unfortunately they don't seem to recommend Wine, neither they announce > Wine as a supported platform. According to http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/11565 they state Wine as the first option for running EVE Online under Linux. Giv

Re: EVE online losing its Linux Client

2009-02-09 Thread François Guerraz
On 9/02/09 3:55, Chris Robinson wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2009 6:17:38 pm Zachary Goldberg wrote: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/206252&from=rss It seems that a game studio found that Wine worked so well that they have given up their efforts to maintain a native client

Re: EVE online losing its Linux Client

2009-02-08 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/9 Zachary Goldberg : > 2009/2/8 Chris Robinson : >> Their "native Linux client" was the Windows client on top of Cedega. They're >> stopping support for the official client running on Cedega, and instead >> recommending Wine. >> > > Hm, interesting. Little room for sadness then, party all a

Re: EVE online losing its Linux Client

2009-02-08 Thread Zachary Goldberg
2009/2/8 Chris Robinson : > Their "native Linux client" was the Windows client on top of Cedega. They're > stopping support for the official client running on Cedega, and instead > recommending Wine. > Hm, interesting. Little room for sadness then, party all around!

Re: EVE online losing its Linux Client

2009-02-08 Thread Chris Robinson
On Sunday 08 February 2009 6:17:38 pm Zachary Goldberg wrote: > http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/206252&from=rss > > It seems that a game studio found that Wine worked so well that they > have given up their efforts to maintain a native client. While > encouraging that Wine works

EVE online losing its Linux Client

2009-02-08 Thread Zachary Goldberg
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/206252&from=rss It seems that a game studio found that Wine worked so well that they have given up their efforts to maintain a native client. While encouraging that Wine works so well, there is a very interesting debate which could be had as to wh