BlitzIn

Steve had mentioned the interesting idea of testing Cedega outside of it's comfort zone. Could it run a Windows program that wasn't a game? This was a question that had to be answered. Steve and I have been InternetChessClub(ICC) members for over ten years. The ICC offers it's members a free Windows client to connect to its servers. They haven't released a new version of it in a while, but this would do. Another interesting aspect of it, was I had tested it in CrossOverOffice in Xandros, during our 3.0 Professional Edition review. CrossOverOffice is also a commercial version of WINE, it is designed to run Office applications instead of games, however. It did not work in COO. Would it in Cedega?

I downloaded version 2.34 from the ICC website. Installation appeared to go well. It is however, a rather simple install though. A icon appeared in Point2Play. I used it to launch the program. Blitzin, as the program is known, started up. I entered my login info and hit connect. Quicker than one of my pawns disappearing in a bullet game, it vanished. My guess is the networking library the software calls upon is not ported to Cedega. That's just my wild hypothesis. Regardless, the answer is, stick to games.

Conclusion

1. Introduction
2. Test Environment
3. Installation
4. World of Warcraft
5. Half-Life 2
6. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
7. BlitzIn
8. Conclusion
9. Known Issues
10. Fixes
11. Glossary