[TriLUG] You can now buy Mandrake 8.1 WITH A LINUX VERSION of "THE SIMS"--The REAL MCKOY!!

[John Matthews]

On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 16:04, al johson wrote:
> Dropped into Compusa in Raleigh today and went back to their Linux section.
> I was startled at what I saw, considering we just had a program on Linux and
> games. And if this was mentioned, I  must have been asleep at the time.

I recall briefly mentioning this.

>     On the shelf for the sum of $70.00 you can now buy Mandrake-Linux 8.1
> WITH "THE SIMS" game (its the real McKoy because the box it's in looks like
> the front of THE SIMS box!!).  I thought I'd let everyone know about this
> because if you care about more games being available in Linux format, you
> might want to run out and give Mandrake some money for this unusual
> distribution. You get the standard 8.1 package (3 disks) plus "The Sims"
> game. I'm not kidding!!--Al.

I hesitate to call this "a Linux version of The Sims" and "the Real
McKoy" since it uses WINE. Granted some porting was done, as far as I
can tell, and some parts of it may actually be compiled and linked
against winelib (as opposed to being a win32 binary being run through
the WINE interpreter) but it is not the same beast as (e.g.) Loki's
ports or even Hyperion's ports. (*shudder*)

Anyway, I'm sure everyone got enough of my anti-WINE stance at the talk.
I'll shut up now.

Regards,
matt

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