Age of Empires on FreeBSD --- Possible?

[Hugo Silva]

Hi,

The game isn't on ports and is available for windows only (it's a
Microsoft game, figure)

Vmware shouldn't run the game, plus I don't have a cdkey for it. I've
tried wine and it kinda sucks on FreeBSD, I couldn't even get mIRC to run,
let alone a game.

My only chance seems to be winex but I don't know where to get it for free
(or if it can be downloaded freely for bsd at all), and I'm not sure if it
compiles OK on 5.2.1; I've heard people had some success with some
patches.


> On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 09:20:37PM -0000, Hugo Silva wrote:
>> I really need to get Age of Empires II - The Conquerors Expansion
>> working
>> on my (only workstation) FreeBSD box.
>>
>> I don't have windows anymore and I'll not switch back to be able to
>> play,
>> but I'd like to know if it is possible at all to run the game on BSD.
>> Perhaps winex ? I heard it is compiling OK now with several patches..
>>
>> Also read people could run Diablo II and WarCraft III, so perhaps it's
>> possible to play AoE with winex.
>>
>> Where can I get a working winex version for FreeBSD? (5.2.1-RELEASE)
>>
>> If any of you could make this game run on FreeBSD, I'd love to know how
>> it
>> was achieved.
>
> Hi Hugo,
>
> I'm guessing your new to FreeBSD. FreeBSD works with a port system. This
> can be compaired with the Debian apt-get. You can find more information
> about this in the handbook that you can find at www.freebsd.org/handbook.
>
> As to you're question. I didn't find these games in the ports. If these
> games exist for linux then you can rum them on FreeBSD by enable the
> linux support. You could also install wine (although you may need a
> windows partion for this) or vmware (you _don't_ need a windows partion
> for this). These are in the ports.
>
> You can install these by:
> cd /usr/ports/emulators/wine; make install && make clean
> cd /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3; make install && make clean
>
> --
> Alex
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