Codeweavers Crossover application

sined13 · Post by **sined13** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:07 pm

Sincerely hoping this doesn't get flagged as spam.

If any of you are interested in running Windows application on your Mac or Linux box for free, check it out, otherwise disregard.

CodeWeavers is offering a fully licensed copy of their application for free for today only ( Tuesday Oct. 28 ) <---- edit: fixed smiley thingy

To understand why, just read the "Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge" paragraph at the bottom of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeWeavers

Their application is here:

www.codeweavers.com

sined13 · Post by **sined13** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:54 pm

hmmm I should have researched this before posting.

Seems like their app is mainly for running CrossOver applications that THEY sell. So this is not such a worthy thing to look into.

I wasn't familiar with them so...

Oh well.

Post by **jacmoe** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:33 pm

What's cool about CodeWeavers is that they contribute a great deal to the Wine project.

However, for power users / programmers and other geeks, who really don't need all that holding hands, there's better options out there.

Like Games4Linux, Ubuntu Tweak and Wine-Doors.

nikki · Post by **nikki** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 5:48 pm

The only applications I use Wine for are Photoshop (though I'm learning to love GIMP, I still need good 'ol PS for some things I just can't do in GIMP) and Internet Explorer (there are some sites, including my school's website (need this one to print out assignments), that don't work on Firefox). I was trying to get TF2 to work, but it seems that Wine can't get it to work on my graphics card (its pretty old, GeForce FX 5600). It does work on Windows though. The problem is that the nVidia drivers for Linux I use are old ones (71.x, new ones cause horizontal artifacts on screen).

This post may remind you of Lisp.

Post by **jacmoe** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 5:58 pm

Like Nikki, I use Wine for the occasional IE session - and not much else.

The Linux equivalent of my favorite Windows programs kicks their asses! Better and more feature complete.
And you don't have to pay for the program, and the upgrades.

The only thing I'd use Wine for - but can't - is Visual Studio..

Post by **betajaen** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:01 pm

I'm still waiting for my free serial number from them, but speaking of Visual Studio. How well do you think Win32 Ogre will run, and if it can run would it be limited to OpenGL or can we get some DirectX action in there?

I must say developing in Linux and simulated Windows at the same time is quite tempting.

Post by **jacmoe** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:41 pm

IIRC, Wine has support for DX9.
I'll give it a go when I get some time!

nikki · Post by **nikki** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:42 pm

betajaen wrote:I'm still waiting for my free serial number from them, but speaking of Visual Studio. How well do you think Win32 Ogre will run, and if it can run would it be limited to OpenGL or can we get some DirectX action in there?

I must say developing in Linux and simulated Windows at the same time is quite tempting.

I can remember an article on the Ogre Wiki somewhere about cross-compiling for Windows from Linux using MingW.

And jacmoe, you can use Code::Blocks! Its really good.

I used to use it before, but after seeing all those 'old' coders use a plain text editor and makefiles, I tried it out and I'm loving it. Now I'm a gvim+premake person. Its fast as hell. Once you get some good gvim plugins and a good tags file, nothing can stop you. I have a 'GenerateTags.sh' script for each of my projects, which calls ctags with the appropriate options. gvim can then use the tags file thus generated. I use the 'OmniCppComplete', 'NERDTree' (a cool file explorer), 'taglist' and 'MiniBufExpl' plugins extensively. gvim can even read 'make' output and help you with error fixing. Now, I just press 'F10' to build my code, 'F1' and 'F2' to switch between buffers (tabs), a quick Ctrl+L to switch to the taglist or a Ctrl+H (these are Ctrl and movement keys) for the file explorer. Any new config I think about, a little ':e ~/.vimrc' and paste it there.

Also, for added speed, I use a window manager called 'xmonad', along with a thing called 'dzen' to quickly open and switch between windows, and a menu program called 'dmenu' to quickly launch programs. I also use the 'vimperator' plugin for Firefox.

In all, the mouse is something I use very rarely nowadays. I use it mainly only for gaming and graphics stuff now. Gotta learn to love the 80+ keys I already have.

Post by **jacmoe** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:10 pm

nikki wrote:And jacmoe, you can use Code::Blocks! Its really good.

I used to use it before, but after seeing all those 'old' coders use a plain text editor and makefiles, I tried it out and I'm loving it. Now I'm a gvim+premake person. Its fast as hell. Once you get some good gvim plugins and a good tags file, nothing can stop you.

If you digg the good old days of hard-core programming, paired with IDE ease of use, you gotta love CodeLite

I do use gEdit a lot, but VIM .. I can see the benefits, but I really don't have the time to learn all it's quirks.
Life is too short to read manuals, IMO.
Bash and gEdit will do the job most of the time.

Nauk · Post by **Nauk** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 3:08 am

I recently looked at a lot of IDEs / editors because right now I am very much leaning to a migration to linux & D. At the end Eclipse + CDT / DDT seemed most convincing to me, least broken and the biggest amount of features, plus coming with the nice option like C::B that you don't have to change your habits switching between linux and windows.

nikki · Post by **nikki** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:12 pm

jacmoe wrote:
nikki wrote:And jacmoe, you can use Code::Blocks! Its really good.

I used to use it before, but after seeing all those 'old' coders use a plain text editor and makefiles, I tried it out and I'm loving it. Now I'm a gvim+premake person. Its fast as hell. Once you get some good gvim plugins and a good tags file, nothing can stop you.
If you digg the good old days of hard-core programming, paired with IDE ease of use, you gotta love CodeLite

I do use gEdit a lot, but VIM .. I can see the benefits, but I really don't have the time to learn all it's quirks.
Life is too short to read manuals, IMO.
Bash and gEdit will do the job most of the time.

I dunno, but gvim ain't that hard to learn. Its only after using it for a while that you get good at it, but that doesn't mean that you can't use it for anything before you do get good at it.

Anyway, another advantage I forgot to mention is, if you use premake, you can edit the config files directly from within gvim (making it like an IDE), and you can do all of gvim's cool filename completion (open up gvim, type a path in your file and press Ctrl+X then Ctrl+F in insert mode) and substitution commands etc. in them. Never really liked the clicking around to edit include directories in IDEs anyway.