Greetings,
I had personally discovered this technique of running windows .exe's in MacOSX
called a wineskin
It is a technique of running windows applications by wrapping an entire windows application with all files in a bundle with an unmodified Wine in a neat single application.
Wine is a very common tool for running windows applications under a Unix operating System. It seemed a perfect tool for running Standoff in MacOSX without having to modify SecretOps in any way. I asked an expert in doing this over at the www.portingteam.com forums and also asked him to get in contact with you about the project which he very kindly agreed. This was in hopes for a tool that the Standoff Team itself could support and host for running their game in MacOSX.
Waves, the expert, told me that Standoff team could not approve on grounds that SecretOps is not, strictly speaking, free. Which has got me confused, and I feel certainly viable for discussion. How does SecretOps license matter in this case? How is this situation of running the game under a industry proven Windows API layer like Wine any different than running it under windows itself? Bear in mind, the game, again, has not been modified any way. I am having a difficult time looking for a SecretOps License finding where there could be a conflict. What is the one that allows CIC to release the full game for free? If someone could bring any light to this, would be great.
On a side note. Standoff in MacOSX runs perfectly under a wineskin with full settings including score reporting and automatic update, under very modest hardware mobile Nvidia 8600 mobile and 2.4 GHZ Intel Core 2 duo.
Thank-you
and Regards,
I had personally discovered this technique of running windows .exe's in MacOSX
called a wineskin
It is a technique of running windows applications by wrapping an entire windows application with all files in a bundle with an unmodified Wine in a neat single application.
Wine is a very common tool for running windows applications under a Unix operating System. It seemed a perfect tool for running Standoff in MacOSX without having to modify SecretOps in any way. I asked an expert in doing this over at the www.portingteam.com forums and also asked him to get in contact with you about the project which he very kindly agreed. This was in hopes for a tool that the Standoff Team itself could support and host for running their game in MacOSX.
Waves, the expert, told me that Standoff team could not approve on grounds that SecretOps is not, strictly speaking, free. Which has got me confused, and I feel certainly viable for discussion. How does SecretOps license matter in this case? How is this situation of running the game under a industry proven Windows API layer like Wine any different than running it under windows itself? Bear in mind, the game, again, has not been modified any way. I am having a difficult time looking for a SecretOps License finding where there could be a conflict. What is the one that allows CIC to release the full game for free? If someone could bring any light to this, would be great.
On a side note. Standoff in MacOSX runs perfectly under a wineskin with full settings including score reporting and automatic update, under very modest hardware mobile Nvidia 8600 mobile and 2.4 GHZ Intel Core 2 duo.
Thank-you
and Regards,