YJL

Not by me, my computer is too old to play. [via]

I never would have thought WINE can do this good. The computer spec is not really top-notch for gaming and casting in my opinion, but the performance is quite good as you can see in the video.

I don’t know the real resolution the game was played with, but recording in 720p isn’t cheap. The processor seems to be more than two years old, the GPU is around 1 year old, not sure about modern computer hardware stuff.

There seems to be some frames dropping, but I am not sure if that’s caused by the playback in Flash or the actual dropping during recording. But generally, it’s smooth.

Last time I ran WINE was more than three years ago. I couldn’t get CS:S running with native resolution of my monitor (1680x1050), which I could if I ran it on Windows. The best seemed to be 640x480, IIRC.

I guess if you have relatively new computer spec, then you probably have much better gaming experience than you had three years ago. But I am glad, I don’t need to invest new stuff for finding out, because WINE still is still not 64-bit. (I don’t think it will ever be)

I watched a few gameplay on Twitch.tv, this game looks great and I happened also to watch the endings, which are really… not so good.

Original Paint

I am a GIMP user, wouldn't try Paint or Paint-like before. I read a tweet today about this, so I give it a try.

First of all, let me quote this:

Original is the best -- Yu-Jie Lin.

Yes, I couldn't agree with this any more because that is said by me. Anyway, if you are the MS Paint fan, then run it with WINE. I have done this, the steps is quite easy:

1. Installing WINE
2. Copy paint.exe and mfc42u.dll from installed Windows system. Or, extract them from Windows Setup CD. You will need cabextract to uncompress the paint.ex_ and mfc42u.dl_ files.
3. (Optional) Copy gdiplus.dll to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32. I don't see this on Windows Setup CD. If you don't have gdiplus.dll, then you can only save/load BMP format.
   
4. Running paint.exe.

Here is the screenshot of my recent masterpiece :) created in MS Paint:

You can download this PNG image, I wonder if is anyone interested. I run Paint on WINE-1.1.5 and Fedora 9. The dlls are from Traditional Chinese Windows, the paint.exe is from Dell Windows Reinstalling Setup CD. Both are Windows XP. I extracted paint.exe from Setup CD because the Chinese characters can't be display, they all are displayed as blocks and I don't know how to fix that.

Paint-alternative on Linux

Here is a list of Paint-alternative applications on Linux, maybe they are not really like MS Paint. Just give them a try.

• gpaint - GNU Paint
• kolourpaint  - KDE based
• mtpaint
• tuxpaint - For 3 to 12 ages kids, but I feel that is more powerful than MS Paint.
• xpaint

None of them I tried, so you are on your own to discover.

Lastly, when I searched for those alternatives, I found this testiminal video via this Uncyclopeida page:



Enjoy it!