A friend of mine recently asked if Patrician III might run on a Mac. My knee-jerk reaction was: "Silly man. Of course you need Windows to run a Windows game."
Except, of course, I was wrong*.
I remembered that I'd played Patrician on my Ubuntu Linux laptop a while back, and it ran just fine ... provided I was willing to install the incredibly awesome WINE application, which runs Windows apps without needing Windows.
* A textbook vindication of Shoemaker's Rule #3: "Distrust the Easy Answer."
Symptoms:
- You want to play Windows games.
- Your computer runs Linux or Mac OSX or some other non-Windows operating system.
