Ok what is the deal here. I know they ask for 5$ a month for a subscripion but what the hell does that mean exactly. Does the program only work for the subsribed period? If so how does it know If I paid or not? Internet. I don''t surf through linux and if there is any kind of verificaion online its not going to work. I''d like to try WineX but the whole seam sounds kinda funny. I knew it cost some how but it fails to mention the fact untill you actualy wants money. There is mention made at the bottom of the page as you sign up but it makes it sound that it is for additional features and not reqired when it is. I''d swear it was a scam if I hadn''t known about it awhile. Is it worth trying?

AFAIK, the subscription lets you vote, post on the forums, get support, and get the binary versions of WineX. The binary versions of WineX have some copy protection support so that you can play copy protected games. I''ve never had any luck getting the CVS version of WineX to work with copy protected games (Warcraft III, etc) so I suppose the $$$ version is necessary to play those.

What exacty is the CVS stuff anyway. I see it around alot but not sure what it is.

I have never used WineX, but when I found out about being able to pay for the service was probably a bad idea as far as voting goes, because all of the popular games will receive a lot of votes, and be made to work, so if you play popular games, people will vote for support for them, and if you play unpopular games, you will not be supported so well, because more people will want other games supported. So, as far as voting goes, probably it is not worth it. As far as support goes, there are so many knowledgable people all over the place, that you could probably easily get support for free from another source. So, as BradDaBug mentioned, copy protection support may be the only reason to use it (IMO) so it would only be worth it if own copy protected games.

That has always been my thoughts on paying for WineX, so I am sure people will have conflicting ideas on WineX

Would be interesting to hear from a WineX subscriber!

Stuart

Of course you could just do it to know that you're supporting a company thats actually trying to cater to the *nix crowds no matter how misguided some people seem to think they are.

BTW I'm a subcriber and if you're not doing it for the above reason, its not really worth it then.

EDIT: strange how missing the words "could" and "not" change the whole meaning of mmy post

[edited by - null_vector on May 18, 2003 1:08:19 AM]

what the hell is AFAIK?

Well I went ahead and signed up. I tried to figure out the CVS tree crap but its a little much. IT was a lot easier to install an RPM. Still trying to get things working but Max Payne and Fallouts are working. I have several games that are said to work well. We shall see. As for suporting the linux gaming community wine seams kinda counter productive. End result is as far as the people who crunch numbers are concerned you still bought a windows program. Still if its all we got then I still for it. We need more developers like ID that give us true ports and don''t require seperate buys for each OS.

quote: Original post by digitec devil
what the hell is AFAIK?

as far as i know

edit: what i want to know is what IIRC means

[edited by - necromancer_df on May 18, 2003 11:02:27 AM]

quote: Original post by necromancer_df
edit: what i want to know is what IIRC means

If I Recall Correctly.

A list of web acronyms.

I guess the whole "supporting Linux gaming" idea is that by paying for WineX you''re showing the game industry that there is a possible market for Linux games. Yeah, the developers may say "well, they can play with WineX so why should we bother with a native Linux build?" but if they go "hey, 20% of the people buying our games are running them on Linux with WineX! Perhaps we should consider a native version?" Yeah, 20% is a big chunk (in relation to what I bet it is now) but we''re getting there.

Anyone notice that middleware is more and more supporting Linux? Looks like a good trend to me. Lets just hope the actual GAMES begin to run on Linux.