[clug] Future CLUG talk
Robert Edwards
bob at cs.anu.edu.au
Thu Jun 12 23:45:03 GMT 2008
Hi David,
This sounds great - looking forward to it.
One comment: if you are really going to use M$ PowerPoint (tm) to do a
slideshow - can that be run under wine? Otherwise, why not use an FOSS
alternative?
Cheers,
Bob Edwards.
David Adams wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I've been thinking about giving a talk in a couple of months at one of
> the CLUG meetings regarding the recent advances in Wine, specifically in
> relation to games and gaming. I've never given a talk at a CLUG before,
> nor have I attended very many meetings (two, in fact!), but since I
> haven't quite graduated yet and am probably going to be quite bored this
> holidays I think this might be one way to amuse myself (plus brush up on
> things like Vista).
>
> I was going to do side-by-side comparisons of a handful of Windows games
> running in Windows XP, Windows Vista Home Basic (It's all I have a
> license for, unfortunately; came with the laptop) and Ubuntu Hardy Heron
> via Wine. I'm going to try to stick to default settings as much as
> possible here, which means games like Call of Duty 4 (which run fine if
> you compile your own version of Wine and patch it) will not be tested. I
> want to keep this as simple as possible, much like end-users do; if it
> won't work with minimal fuss on a default Hardy Heron wine, I'm probably
> not going to test it. While that massively disadvantages Windows, we
> *are* trying to run Windows applications on a Linux base- so I think
> that's fair.
>
> Right of the top of my head, the games I'm considering displaying are:
>
> - World of Warcraft
> - Call of Duty 2
> - Quake 3 (old favorite... plus there's a native Linux port so we can
> compare!)
> - Whatever takes my fancy.
>
> I'll also throw in a few benchmark programs. Specifically:
>
> - Aquamark 3
> - Some version of 3D Mark.
>
> The presentation would probably be half an hour or slightly more and
> would probably consist of a Powerpoint Slideshow of Doom with heaps of
> screenshots, graphs, etc.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions regarding this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
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