MS game Risk II - question from newbie

[albi]

Brian Chase wrote:

> So what was the answer to the Risk game question on ubuntu?

see below what i've basically wrote :

(i didn't suggest getting addicted to another game, that might the best
solution ;-)


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djyoung wrote:

hi,

 > I want to permanently dump my MS XP - accept for my husband plays Risk
 > II on Windows, can someone offer me a direction? Ive heard and read
 > about emulators, Wine, WineX ect and have no clue here. if i can get
 > Risk II somehow on Warty i can kiss MS goodbye forever - links, info, 
ect - anything!


Wine is a nice project but you can't rely on it to run your apps 
properly, Wine is still in the so-called Alpha-stage, and your app may
run with a certain Wine-version and not with another Wine-version

WineX was based on Wine and meant for running games, WineX is now called
Cedega, it's made by TransGaming, and commercial software, see here :

http://www.transgaming.com/
http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/

Another thing to try is Qemu, if your machine is reasonably fast
(say, > 1 Ghz, and >= 512 Mb RAM) you might want to try this
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
Qemu is open-source software and free of charge

VMWare is another (not so cheap) option, see :
http://www.vmware.com/

apart from all this you can of course try Wine as a last resort,
here's a website with some Wine-tips :
http://frankscorner.org/
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