Sam Alexander wrote:
>   Re: Re: WINE
>   By: Digital Noise to All on Tue Apr 25 2006 01:11 pm
>
>  > Speaking of WINE...
>  >
>  > Does anyone know if anyone has ever been able to get large games - such
>  > as World of Warcraft - to run on WINE at all?
>  >
>  > To be honest, that's one of the main reasons why my main desktop hasn't
>  > been switched over to Ubuntu or some other distro - simply I want to be
>  > able to play my games.
>  >
>  > DN
>  
> 
> Hi DN,
> 
> I'm not sure about WoW, but I know Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament, and a 
> few others do work quite well.  You might also be able to find a port for 
> Linux since WoW is so popular. 
> 
> I just did a quick Google search and found some links that might help:
> 
> HOWTO Install and update World Of Warcraft with wine
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_and_update_World_Of_Warcraft_with_wine
> 
> Articles : World of Warcraft under Wine
> http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=707
> -- This article says WoW works quite well under Wine with no crashes.
> 
> Sam

Wow (no pun intended :-P), didn't realize that much information was out 
there.  Hmm, I just wonder if I really feel like messing with it that 
much - I'm not the type that's afraid to get his hands dirty, but with 
certain things it's just not worth that much to me.

According to the second article, they got official assistance from 
Blizzard's CVS maintainer, so perhaps that indicates Blizzard may be 
heading toward's a Linux version.  They have a universal binary that 
will run on Mac OS X, so I wouldn't think Linux would be too far behind.

Thanks for the info - I've taken note!

DN

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