Codeweavers CrossOver for Free (10/28 Only)

akula65 · Post by **akula65** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:25 pm

Get the scoop here:

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/27/codeweav ... -tomorrow/

and the software download here:

http://down.codeweavers.com/

It's not April 1, is it?!?

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:08 pm

Wow, thanks for the link!

Wheeze87 · Post by **Wheeze87** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:42 am

Nice post, i got my copy of crossover pro for mac free. awesome! now i can ditch fiddling around with darwine, this is much easier. I feel guilty for not paying for it though.... maybe we can donate?

akula65 · Post by **akula65** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:28 pm

Oh, I'm sure they will take your money. But you could help the company and a lot of other people by taking the time to help update their compatibility database by testing and providing information on those applications that you have at hand.

akula65 · Post by **akula65** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 8:36 am

FYI, I just my registration serial number a few minutes ago.

snoopy · Post by **snoopy** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 8:01 am

(as a linux user) what makes crossover superior to wine?

akula65 · Post by **akula65** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:06 am

Did you take a look at the \"Choosing the right Wine-based solution\" on this page:

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/differences/

At any rate, that's CodeWeavers' take on it.

zico · Post by **zico** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:37 am

snoopy wrote:(as a linux user) what makes crossover superior to wine?

Actually nothing. On the contrary. Maybe it has some more success running programs now, but as Linux user you should just stay away from binary programs if you can. If you update your system somehow, binary programs will be the first (measured onn how the program is linked and what the deps are) stop working.
You'll never get this problem with WINE.

If you continue to support WINE and report problems and inconsitencies running programs on it, you get the same functionality with WINE in a long run - and WINE is always free code.

CEDEGA once was much better running games than WINE was. However just after 3 years the OpenSource concept of WINE gave it a big jump while the ClosedSource concept of CEDEGA still makes it closed for the community and it keeps sucking more and more each day (my opinion based on my licensed versions of CEDEGA in the past 3 years).

The Lion · Post by **The Lion** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 6:33 pm

Yeah, Cedega is based on a very old Wine since they can't rip any code from
the newer, LGPL-licensed versions. I'd say let them die; Wine has gone a long
way since then and can now run many games with few or no problems.

As for Codeweavers - they rely on Wine and are funding development of it.

Codeweavers CrossOver for Free (10/28 Only)

Codeweavers CrossOver for Free (10/28 Only)

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