[cw-discuss] Crossover Games?

[Bill Northcott]

On 20/03/2008, at 3:59 AM, Jeremy wrote:
> Take Microsoft Office, for example.  We built our product line around
> support for MS Office.  Early incarnations of CrossOver essentially  
> did
> nothing but Microsoft Office.  But on the Mac, it's largely  
> unneeded.  So half
> of our market doesn't need it.  And on Linux, interest in MS Office  
> has
> been waning, year over year.  OpenOffice is getting better, and there
> are enough alternatives that it isn't as compelling.  And, thanks to  
> our
> work, free Wine runs MS Office increasingly well, so folks don't need
> to buy CrossOver to run it.  So if we focused
> on nothing but Microsoft Office, we'd be out of business right now.
>
> Hence, one of the key things we are interested in with CrossOver Games
> is that it gives us a point of focus (most games are largely similar,
> making the technical problem straight forward) that we can rally  
> around.
> We can work to make games work well (and they work remarkably well due
> to the hard work of a lot of great people) and bring that message  
> forward.

I appreciate that games are a priority, but can I put in an other word  
for USB and serial interface support.  There are huge numbers of  
consumer electronic device that now need PC connections, GPS, remote  
controls .......   Most of these do not have and are not likely to  
have Mac/Linux software.  The software is usually some simple VB stuff  
but it needs USB and serial (possibly Bluetooth) support to connect to  
the device.

Bill Northcott