Hi all,

We have just published a review of Crossover Games for Mac - if you
could post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated.

*Link: http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2008/04/22/crossover_games_for_mac/1*

*Picture:
http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/04/crossover_games_for_mac/cross13.jpg*

*Quote: *Of course, since DirectX is exclusively Windows-based, it's
left Mac and Linux users out in the cold for quite some time. Releases
lag by months if not years before a Mac port is created, and that's if
one is ever even seen. Updates are rare and bugs linger for ages. Sure,
there are some great games coded natively for OSX or Linux, but most
commercial titles are just not there.

Codeweavers sells its software commercially, which is based on very
carefully tailored packages of Wine that it calls "Crossover." But
rather than become a big company making money off an open project,
Codeweavers exists as little more than a professional conduit – the
developers are some of the best and brightest of the Wine community for
years, and so your money goes 100 percent back into the Wine community.
Businesses and individuals that buy the company's /Crossover/ software
are actually donating to the Wine project, and in return get support and
assistance with getting their needed programs to run.

The company has had some great success with Crossover, enough so that it
could begin devoting part of its resources to fund solidly game
research. Wine as it stands right now has some problems with its ability
to handle gaming, particularly in the DirectX API and the .NET 2.0
Framework – you can bet that Microsoft isn't exactly chomping at the bit
to help, either. So, with some actual funding in hand, Codeweavers began
to work on the project that is now known as Crossover Games – the
product we'll be reviewing today.
*

*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley
www.bit-tech.net