Hi,
I have been trying our various Oberon Media games. The thing that is holding this up from working is the hyperlinks on the intro screen (I am going to enter a bug report later on).
I have worked out how to run and register the games (given a valid registration key that you have purchased) so that they will work under Wine. So this got me wondering... where do I put this?
This complements the appdb, but is in a way orthogonal to it (that is there may be HOWTOs relating to individual games/applications, to vendors or to other areas such as installing Windows themes like the Zune theme). It will also help when more people start using Wine and want to get their favorite application running.
My initial thoughts are that the wiki seems like a good place for this. Thoughts? Comments?
- Reece
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Reece Dunn msclrhd@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have been trying our various Oberon Media games. The thing that is holding this up from working is the hyperlinks on the intro screen (I am going to enter a bug report later on).
I have worked out how to run and register the games (given a valid registration key that you have purchased) so that they will work under Wine. So this got me wondering... where do I put this?
This complements the appdb, but is in a way orthogonal to it (that is there may be HOWTOs relating to individual games/applications, to vendors or to other areas such as installing Windows themes like the Zune theme). It will also help when more people start using Wine and want to get their favorite application running.
My initial thoughts are that the wiki seems like a good place for this. Thoughts? Comments?
- Reece
I don't see why this shouldn't be put in the AppDB. The wiki may be useful for installing themes, etc., but this seems to be related to a particular app/vendor, and should be in the AppDB.
2008/5/26 Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com:
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Reece Dunn msclrhd@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have been trying our various Oberon Media games. The thing that is holding this up from working is the hyperlinks on the intro screen (I am going to enter a bug report later on).
I have worked out how to run and register the games (given a valid registration key that you have purchased) so that they will work under Wine. So this got me wondering... where do I put this?
This complements the appdb, but is in a way orthogonal to it (that is there may be HOWTOs relating to individual games/applications, to vendors or to other areas such as installing Windows themes like the Zune theme). It will also help when more people start using Wine and want to get their favorite application running.
My initial thoughts are that the wiki seems like a good place for this. Thoughts? Comments?
I don't see why this shouldn't be put in the AppDB. The wiki may be useful for installing themes, etc., but this seems to be related to a particular app/vendor, and should be in the AppDB.
Ok. However, I don't see anything on the AppDB forms for entering HOWTO information for a vendor or application and linking application notes to the vendor version.
Do you mean these should be in the Application Comments section? If so, what about having Vendor Comments as well? However, these feel more like email discussions about applications and the HOWTO notes could get lost in the noise; in addition to this, the HOWTO may evolve and thus it would be harder to track down which is the right one.
- Reece
Reece Dunn wrote:
2008/5/26 Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com:
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Reece Dunn msclrhd@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have been trying our various Oberon Media games. The thing that is holding this up from working is the hyperlinks on the intro screen (I am going to enter a bug report later on).
I have worked out how to run and register the games (given a valid registration key that you have purchased) so that they will work under Wine. So this got me wondering... where do I put this?
This complements the appdb, but is in a way orthogonal to it (that is there may be HOWTOs relating to individual games/applications, to vendors or to other areas such as installing Windows themes like the Zune theme). It will also help when more people start using Wine and want to get their favorite application running.
My initial thoughts are that the wiki seems like a good place for this. Thoughts? Comments?
I don't see why this shouldn't be put in the AppDB. The wiki may be useful for installing themes, etc., but this seems to be related to a particular app/vendor, and should be in the AppDB.
Ok. However, I don't see anything on the AppDB forms for entering HOWTO information for a vendor or application and linking application notes to the vendor version.
Do you mean these should be in the Application Comments section? If so, what about having Vendor Comments as well? However, these feel more like email discussions about applications and the HOWTO notes could get lost in the noise; in addition to this, the HOWTO may evolve and thus it would be harder to track down which is the right one.
Hmm...with the current software you may have to be a maintainer and make a Howto for each game then. Alternatively you could put a link in each howto to another AppDB (or wiki) page, if you want to keep the instructions centralized.
Thanks, Scott Ritchie
On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 00:11 +0100, Reece Dunn wrote:
Hi,
I have been trying our various Oberon Media games. The thing that is holding this up from working is the hyperlinks on the intro screen (I am going to enter a bug report later on).
I have worked out how to run and register the games (given a valid registration key that you have purchased) so that they will work under Wine. So this got me wondering... where do I put this?
This complements the appdb, but is in a way orthogonal to it (that is there may be HOWTOs relating to individual games/applications, to vendors or to other areas such as installing Windows themes like the Zune theme). It will also help when more people start using Wine and want to get their favorite application running.
My initial thoughts are that the wiki seems like a good place for this. Thoughts? Comments?
The problem with wikis is that they don't expire unless someone actually goes through the pages and updates them. So say AwesomeGame 1.0 doesn't work with Wine 1.0-rc2, and some workarounds are written down. 6 months later with AwesomeGame 1.6 is out, and so is Wine 1.2, the game now works out of the box. But the workarounds are still listed on the Wiki.
AppDB deals with this rather well, because for most games you don't see old-as-* work-arounds that may actually be potentially damaging (No-CD cracks that aren't needed, etc).
So I'd vote for AppDB.
- Reece
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