Heroes of Might and Magic III

A few months back I decided to shell out the cash for a Transgaming membership. For those not aware, Transgaming makes a specialized version of WINE, the Windows Emulator for Linux, which is designed around running games -- just not the kind of games I like to play.

Of the 45 or so Windows games in my collection, only a couple work flawlessly under Cedega, a.k.a. WineX. The best of the crop is the ever-popular Diablo II LOD, and it worked better under VMWare with Windows beneath.

It's the Christmas season, and it's time to look at playing around, games in particular. I've already mentioned Transgaming in a previous rant. I mentioned that I wasn't completely happy with the direction Transgaming is headed, but they have continued to make Windows-based games work in Linux. As a bit of a holiday treat I thought I would show a few screen shots from one of my favourite games of all time, Diablo II.

One of the biggest challenges for new Linux users is finding information and getting help with programs. If you have some Linux experience and just want to know what options a program has you can often type something like:

heroes3 -h

Heroes 3 happens to be the Linux version of Heroes of Might and Magic III. The -h switch prints out other switches heroes3 can take on the command line. This comes in handy if you're looking for an option like running heroes3 in fullscreen or windowed mode.