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08-05-2003, 10:49 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 4
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Games
hello
i want to know if you can play games like GTA SIMCITY TOMB RAIDER WARCRAFT with LINUX?
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08-05-2003, 10:58 AM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Springfield, MO
Distribution: RedHat/Slackware
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Sure you can. Check out TransGaming for more info.
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08-05-2003, 11:02 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 4
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sorry iam a newbie
what is transgaming
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08-05-2003, 11:19 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Kent, England
Distribution: Debian Testing
Posts: 19,192
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08-05-2003, 11:54 AM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: you dont want to know
Distribution: Gentoo 2004.2, Slackware 10, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server
Posts: 348
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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
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08-05-2003, 12:33 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 4
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what is a RPM file
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08-05-2003, 12:39 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2003
Location: Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Distribution: slackware
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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
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08-05-2003, 12:43 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 4
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sorry but i dont have installed linux yet
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