bonebags Posted October 17, 2006 Report Share Posted October 17, 2006 ive just purchased the gaming edition of mandrake linux (the distro which includes the sims ) my question is, is this edition compatable with the mandriva distros or is the sims cd compatable with other linux distros are updates still available for mandrake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 17, 2006 Report Share Posted October 17, 2006 Updates for Mandrake stopped ages ago. Mandriva LE2005 has just expired for updates, and it won't be long before 2006 does as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoonma Posted October 17, 2006 Report Share Posted October 17, 2006 Hi bonebags, you can do an update to your edition. I don't know what this is doing to the Sims (if running linux native, everything will probably be okay). You can download a free edition of Mandriva (.ISOs) and go through the update process by booting the first one. HTH, scoonma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted October 17, 2006 Report Share Posted October 17, 2006 Mandrake gaming edition was just a packaged version of Mandrake running WineX (now called Cedega). WineX spoofs a Windows environment to run Windows applications, especially games. So, in answer to your questions: No, it is not officially supported anymore. Yes, you can, however, update it to the last supported candidate. And yes, you can play the Sims on any Linux distro - if you have Cedega installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted October 17, 2006 Report Share Posted October 17, 2006 (edited) Mandrake gaming edition was just a packaged version of Mandrake running WineX (now called Cedega). WineX spoofs a Windows environment to run Windows applications, especially games. So, in answer to your questions: No, it is not officially supported anymore. Yes, you can, however, update it to the last supported candidate. And yes, you can play the Sims on any Linux distro - if you have Cedega installed. I'm pretty certain you can only run the wine-able version as this was a major problem with my GF for a long time :mellow: So non of the add-ins work and you can't upgrade the sims version which is pretty much locked to that specific one. Last time I checked cedega had absolutely no plans to extend this .... The real problem is actually the cheat protection in the sims... basically the program checks for what it thinks is a debugger running and assumes wine is one and your trying to cheat...so far as I know the only difference of the "linux" (read wine) version is that this part is disabled. I would be really careful about upgrading Wine/Cedega because it might only work with this one version? The Cedega forums are probably the best place to check but last time I checked there were hundreds of upset users who felt abandoned by Cedega.... (perhaps unfairly since this is not entirely in their control) edits: Incidentally The Sims is also about the only windows app refuses to run in VMWARE too? Same prob it thinks its being hacked? Edited October 17, 2006 by Gowator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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