Now that FFXI has been updated to DX9, is anyone interested in trying to get it to work in Wine? I would install it and try to get it to work myself, but that would require a valid (13$/month) content ID to log in with. I know there's quite a few people out there that would love to see FFXI work in Wine, so it would be nice to see if people here care enough to put the effort into it. Not to mention, WoW works perfectly in Wine, which means that's just one more advantage it has over FFXI until someone gets it to run FFXI as well.
Although I doubt anyone that doesn't already know what Wine is would be interested in helping, there might be one or two of you who would take up getting FFXI to run in it as a hobby or interest, so in short: Wine is a compatibility layer that allows Windows applications to run on x86 UNIX and Unix-like OS, such as BSD, Linux, and Mac OS X. Wine runs many games with few or no problems, such as HL2, WoW, C&C3, as well as many applications. You can see more info on what Wine can run and how well at http://appdb.winehq.org/ .
By helping to get FFXI working in Wine, it would be possible to play the PC version on OS other than Windows, again such as Linux or OS X. This would open up more platforms for FFXI to be played on, which would allow people to use their OS of choice without having to worry about dual booting, or possibly even draw in people that wouldn't have otherwise tried it.
Although I doubt anyone that doesn't already know what Wine is would be interested in helping, there might be one or two of you who would take up getting FFXI to run in it as a hobby or interest, so in short: Wine is a compatibility layer that allows Windows applications to run on x86 UNIX and Unix-like OS, such as BSD, Linux, and Mac OS X. Wine runs many games with few or no problems, such as HL2, WoW, C&C3, as well as many applications. You can see more info on what Wine can run and how well at http://appdb.winehq.org/ .
By helping to get FFXI working in Wine, it would be possible to play the PC version on OS other than Windows, again such as Linux or OS X. This would open up more platforms for FFXI to be played on, which would allow people to use their OS of choice without having to worry about dual booting, or possibly even draw in people that wouldn't have otherwise tried it.
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