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General / Re: Supported Platforms

« on: July 07, 2007, 06:31:59 am »

I'd prefer native myself, but if it works 100% correctly in Wine, that would certainly be good enough for me.

Yes indeed. I have no Windows systems, nor will I ever again if I can help it. I also buy native games without a second thought, WINE-supported not so much. If you need help porting, you can always hit up a porting house like Icculus, LGP, etc. There are even talks about community-backed ports of commercial games; such a thing would be fairly new ground, but I don't think it's a bad concept. There are also other small shops out there who have successfully ported Linux games and built a loyal fanbase, such as Wolfire and S2Games. David of Wolfire first posted an "Ask Slashdot" segment which attracted interest and potential porters for his project early on: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/03/1614214   Such a thing might not be a bad idea if you're considering it.

P.S. - For what it's worth, I've purchased games from every one of the vendors I linked.