Age of Empires on FreeBSD --- Possible?

[Karel J. Bosschaart]

On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 09:15:26PM -0000, Hugo Silva wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The game isn't on ports and is available for windows only (it's a
> Microsoft game, figure)
> 
> Vmware shouldn't run the game, plus I don't have a cdkey for it. I've
> tried wine and it kinda sucks on FreeBSD, I couldn't even get mIRC to run,
> let alone a game.

"Me too" had never any luck with wine on FreeBSD. I didn't try it myself,
but here's a link how to setup Warcraft 3 with wine on FreeBSD:
http://am-productions.yi.org/docs/warcraft3.php

> My only chance seems to be winex but I don't know where to get it for free
> (or if it can be downloaded freely for bsd at all), and I'm not sure if it
> compiles OK on 5.2.1; I've heard people had some success with some
> patches.

AFAIK winex (which is now called cedega) is not free; you have to subscribe 
first (paying some $) before you can download. Check out their website
http://www.transgaming.com , they have a database with games and ratings
how well it works. I found some instructions on how to compile the CVS 
version on FreeBSD (in german though, and 3.3.2 is not the most recent):
http://www.narusegawa.de/ablage/Tutorials/WineX_3.3.2_CVS_auf_FreeBSD_5.2.1-RELEASE
You could also try running a prepackaged Linux version. From reading
the mailing lists, I understand that people are doing this successfully.

I never tried winex/cedega myself because I don't like the idea of paying
for software that might be totally useless for me, as the ratings for
games I'm interested in aren't very promising :-(. I therefore keep my 
Windows partition for those games.

Karel.