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Old 08-05-2003, 10:49 AM   #1
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Games

hello

i want to know if you can play games like GTA SIMCITY TOMB RAIDER WARCRAFT with LINUX?
 
Old 08-05-2003, 10:58 AM   #2
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Sure you can. Check out TransGaming for more info.
 
Old 08-05-2003, 11:02 AM   #3
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sorry iam a newbie

what is transgaming
 
Old 08-05-2003, 11:19 AM   #4
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www.transgaming.com
 
Old 08-05-2003, 11:54 AM   #5
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http://web.tiscali.it/winex/winex3.1.i586.rpm

You can get the free WineX rpm file there. It will allow you to play many windows games on your *nix box
 
Old 08-05-2003, 12:33 PM   #6
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what is a RPM file
 
Old 08-05-2003, 12:39 PM   #7
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hehe, what distro are you using?
if its a rpm based distro just type in the terminal:
rpm -ivh packagename.rpm
 
Old 08-05-2003, 12:43 PM   #8
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sorry but i dont have installed linux yet
 
  


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