After having downloaded (via Automatix) Crossover Office, I was planning on doing a bit on gaming; it seems that one needs to know something about Windows to do this most effectively. Sadly, this is something I'm not that familiar with outside of using Spybot, Avast, AVG, and the like.
Or it could be that Crossover simply doesn't like unsupported games; I really hadn't thought ahead when I promised to do a series on gaming; I have to spend money on these games, and the ones that people want to hear about are exactly the games I don't want to play.
I got a copy of Pool of Radiance, as I've always been a big fan of SSI games; it turns out that the game pre-dates XP, and is best suited to run on Windows 95/98/ME. Or it could just be the fact that I'm not good with figuring out whether to use the command setup.exe, PoR.exe, Pool.exe, or what.
I'm sure that some trial and error will get it going, even if I have to use Windows 95 in a Virtual Machine; no way I'm wasting eight bucks! Suffice to say that I don't give up that easily, but I just checked out the prices for Counter-Strike, Half-Life 2, World of Warcraft, and other such hits, and their prices, coupled with the fact that I'm not that desperate for readers leads me to believe that the all-encompassing gamefest diary on Linux may be a little while in coming.
Crossover Office does allow the user to choose a large number of applications to run, and in so doing creates something called a 'bottle' to allow the virtualization, or emulation (not sure which) to take place; the supported games include EVE online, WoW, Steam and perhaps one or two others (wasn't really that focused).
If you are a Windows user, then it will likely be a breeze, as even the Crossover window theme has a definite XP look about it. Outside of games, there are of course a number of productivity apps supported including (surprise!) Microsoft Office. Didn't think that I'd have to learn XP to use Crossover; if that's the case (I hope not) then I may have to reconsider this venture altogether. Reading the manual might help me solve this dilemma.
I really abhor absent diarists who just post and run, and I will periodically check in if there are any comments, questions, etc; don't think that you have to talk about gaming--as always, anything tech-related is welcome, even stuff that is not open source or Linux. But seeing as I just got the newly released boxed set DVD collection of My name is Earl (with subtitles), and this is day 53 of this insane series on Linux, please understand if I take a bit of down time. Cheers!