Win4lin Performance (was: another windoze emulator)

[Tilly, Lawrence]

Mandatory Tangent Post:

Anyone w/ direct experience using win4lin to run W9x games? I'm not too interested in the latest & greatest shooters. I'm mostly a strategy/rts/city-builder addict (and many of the ones I like are 1+ years old), so I don't care if it can throw 3 billion frames / second. However, I do like smooth graphics under those games, and a responsive interface is critical.  Games are one of the main reasons I keep a "Wintendo" installation of W98 on my machine.

As example, some of the ones keeping me mostly distracted are MechCommander, Pharaoh, Star Fleet Command & Stronghold

-Lawrence

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Feldman [mailto:gaf at blu.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 2:30 PM
To: discuss at gnhlug.org
Subject: Re: another windoze emulator 


Technically it is, but it is limited to running a single copy of Windows 
9x. (Of course, some of us may not consider Windows 9x and operating 
system).
Win4Lin does a pretty decent job by allowing the user to run a complete 
copy of Windows9x. One advantage of this over WINE (and CrossoverOffice) is 
that virtually every Windoz program can run with very few exceptions. 
Another advantage of this over VMWare (other than cost) is that the Windows 
file system is simply a subdirectory in your Linux native file system. 
Performance is better than VMWare (although VMWare is the better product).
 
Jon Hall wrote:
> Win4Lin is not a virtual machine.....you cannot run another operating 
> system on top of it the way you can with VMware.

-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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