Re: RFS: steam-powered

[Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at>]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 06:21:20PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > I'm unsure if this is a too good idea - and it would require someone having the
> > original games, otherwise they won't be able to sponsor it.
> 
> steam is downloadable for free, and as long as steam works, the games
> will work.  the games are launched using command-line arguments to the
> steam.exe executable.  for example, counter-strike is launched via
> "wine steam.exe -applaunch 10", where 10 is the app number for
> counter-strike.

 Ah, so it requires wine - I'm out of the ball with my powerpc system,
then. ;)

 So long,
Rhonda