steam vs wine alike flightgear vs flight pro sim?

ahso · Post by **ahso** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 4:08 am

am i right that steam supports about the same games as wine? So it could be a wine pirate alike flight pro sim to flightgear?

eps · Post by **eps** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 4:29 am

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:08 PM, ahso <[email protected]> wrote:

am i right that steam supports about the same games as wine? So it could be a wine pirate alike flight pro sim to flightgear?

What are you talking about?

ahso · Post by **ahso** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 5:29 am

About GPL licensed grey area.
http://flightprosim.sgier.com/

eps · Post by **eps** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 5:49 am

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 8:29 PM, ahso <[email protected]> wrote:

About GPL licensed grey area.
http://flightprosim.sgier.com/

Again, what are you talking about?

ahso · Post by **ahso** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 7:07 am

What's the difference between steam to wine?

eps · Post by **eps** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 8:05 am

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:07 PM, ahso <[email protected]> wrote:

What's the difference between steam to wine?

Steam is a content delivery platform allowing users to purchase and
acquire games over the internet.

Wine is a compatibility layer for Windows executables under Linux.

jorl17 · Post by **jorl17** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 10:03 am

Much like was said, Wine enables you to run Windows apps in Unix systems such as Linux, BSD and Mac. It is NOT steam but it ALLOWS you to run steam and many games / apps.

Yet, all of this could've been found with the simplest of google searches...

ahso · Post by **ahso** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 10:27 am

yes possible. I only looked up my favourite Tomb Raider Underworld and it says Windows only. So i was surprised...

ahso · Post by **ahso** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 10:55 am

America's Army is a Windows only application but running with Steam on Mac...that's why

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 8:26 pm

ahso wrote:

America's Army is a Windows only application but running with Steam on Mac...that's why

It runs under Linux as well with Wine with Steam. AA for the Mac is a
Mac native application up to AA 3.

However, what you originally asked is NOT a topic here as we do not
discuss cracked/hacked software here. And software of questionable
origin should stay away as well.

James McKenzie

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Sat Jun 05, 2010 3:39 am

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 03:26, James McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote:

However, what you originally asked is NOT a topic here as we do not discuss
cracked/hacked software here. Â And software of questionable origin should
stay away as well.

What he initially mentioned was a version of a open-source program
with questionable adherence to the original's GPL license... (or at
least it seems that way...) (The relevant version is also
Windows-only, while the original runs on Windows, OS X, Linux,
Solaris, etc...) (Or at least that's how it seem...)

ahso · Post by **ahso** » Sat Jun 05, 2010 3:47 am

My fault. I only had a quick look at steam and saw America's Army for Win & Mac which is obviously wrong.