Day Seven

Posted on 14 Nov 2008 at 15:02

Right, I've gone almost a week without a gaming hit and I'm experiencing withdrawal. Mercifully, the advent of virtualisation has opened up a world of possibilities and I've heard reports of people playing Team Fortress without too many problems. My needs are more modest: StarCraft and Football Manager 2007 are my gaming guinea pigs.

My route back into gaming bliss is Wine, a virtualisation package that emulates Windows in Linux. Heading through the now familiar terminal I locate the package and it installs with minimum fuss. From now on it's as easy as putting the command "wine" in front of whatever I want to run. I install StarCraft and I'm soon happily exploding intergalactic monsters with no compromises of any sort. Gamers have no fear, at least gamers who enjoy the ten-year-old games I do.

Emboldened, I turn my attention to Football Manager, but it turns out to be as complicated as astrophysics to install. My trusty Linux gaming website offers a vast sheet of intimidating instructions, and given that my Luton side is staring relegation in the face anyway, I decide to return to waging intergalactic war.

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Author: Stuart Turton