Max Payne 2 Not Just For Windows Anymore

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 1:22 am

So, there I was sitting around thinking "welp, another slow tuesday.... darn my luck, I get most likely the slowest day of the week..." and so I got a little bored, and decided to find out what was new on the Linux Gaming scene. (I had been out of town for a week, so I figured prolly not all that much, but you never know...) And what do my feasting eyes come across? But a little diddy posted 1 week ago today saying that Transgaming has figured out how to play the hit title Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne in Linux! Well tickle me pink, and before I forget, here's the link.

For those of you not in the know, Transgaming is a solution provider that allows you to play your Windows-Based games (from their original Windows-Based CDs), in Linux. What does this mean for developers? Well, if they help out Transgaming, they're getting their titles to a larger audience base, hence, more profit. What does this mean for gamers? That we have freedom in our choice of OS platform from which we can game on. Now now, I can hear you already saying "But Peoii! That's just an emulator, and those suck", ahhh, but there you would be.... atleast partially mistaken. See, most standard "emulators" as we've come to know them, try to run the OS, and then the game ontop of it. This causes a great deal of overhead. What Transgaming (and the folks on the Wine project) attempt to do, is simply create the layers required to get the game running, not the entire OS. So it's almost more a "translator" than a true "emulator". But that's a whole symantecs thing that we could debate til the cows come home.

Point remains, another great game has been added to the ever growing list of Windows Based Games that will run in Linux. Good news for all gamers concerned.

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lol

an i fisrst thought (when i read the topic of the news) that a native port has come. i'm not a firend of wine/winex (too many horror stories about hacking around to get a game working, some games even don't work at all (especially "new" dx9-games) and so on) so i have a simple dualboot-system (mandrake+windows2000)

but great to hear that i'm not alone there who wants to play games under linux =)

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 4:49 pm

hehehe, definately not alone mate.

I've been a big supporter of gaming in linux for a while now, and when news like this hits that Transgaming is ontop of the ball enough to get hit titles like MP2 on their product, that's what I call good progress...