Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

[Simon Cornelius P. Umacob]

Tom Wickline wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I have a small blog about running Wine on Unix operating systems and
> over the last couple days I've been
> experimenting with Wine on FreeBSD 7 beta 2 (I see beta 4 is out, many thanks!)
> 
> If anyone here is interested I ran Office 97 and 2000 out of the box
> on FreeBSD 7beta no registry files
> or special hacks needed. Ive also run a couple small applications
> (Qicktime 7.1.6) (IE 5 5.5 6) and then some benchmarks
> 3DMark 2000v1.1, 3DMark2001SE, GL Excess and PC Mark04. In the future
> ill see if I can get 3DMark 2003 and 3DMark 2005
> to run and produce results as well.
> 
> I don't know if any of you guys or gals are Gamers.... But just in
> case I also installed Halo in Wine and it runs about the same
> on FreeBSD as it does on Linux. With D3D, DDraw and OpenGL working
> most every game that is running in Wine should run
> on FreeBSD.. I don't know this as fact as I've only tried one Game and
> four Benchmarks, but it does look promising.
> 


Salamat sa review, Tom.  Now, if only Wine could run on x86_64, that 
would be really cooooool.... =)

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