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love this story very much. I had no idea WINE had been around for that long and was able to play starcraft etc. I have really great memories of playing starcraft with friends back in the day.... that game had enough staying power that we could all get into and out of in middle school and then again in college!

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Wine is nearly as old as linux. First released in 1993.

I had some awkward conversations with my parents as a teenage nerd looking into "winehq". They didn't believe me that it had nothing to do with alcohol.

Your parent being concerned about you browsing something about wine?

You're definitely not be French/European. Here our parents give us wine :) American?

mormon family.

Thanks, Mormons are some of the most nicest and chill Americans I've met in Europe. Had no idea alcohol is taboo.

They're also good at getting security clearances since they never do anything, so those might've been CIA agents.

>They're also good at getting security clearances since they never do anything

I never understood why you should mass deny security clearances to people who like to "party".

They don't want people who might have done something embarrassing in their past, because foreign adversaries might try to blackmail them with that.

On the flip side, those are the exact people who often wouldn’t be embarrassed or ashamed of that kind of behavior. I’ve done a lot of things, and I’d openly admit just about all of it if anyone asked.

On the other hand if you do find a Mormon who took some liberties in an earlier time in their life…

As well as admitting everything, it's easier to get a government job if you never did drugs, seeing as they're illegal.

They're good at being CIA agents because they are supple and compliant and the CIA has tools to make that compliance into nationalistic zealotry that rivals the capabilities of most religions, having refined it through operations such as paperclip, etc..

They were already nationalistic, that's another part of being Mormons.

Even today, Blizzard games tend to run pretty easily on Wine. I always attributed it to them using a fairly old tech stack, but maybe it's the reverse and Wine development has just continued to go above and beyond for those games.

I know WoW is aware that's it's running in Wine. There are some setting greyed out in game with a message of not compatible when running in Wine.

It was mostly on purpose, that Blizzard games worked well in Wine. We even fixed a few things in our code from time to time that accidentally made Wine emulation hard.

For me a more interesting way of putting it is that Wine is nearly as old as Windows NT whose usermode architecture it’s copying—first shipped 1993 as well! Even if development began around 1989 that and preliminary versions of various kinds were available from about 1991.

It's still being played heavily and professionally in Korea and there are many non Korean tournaments too.

I watch pro matches everyday!

> heavily

Sadly not the case, as much as I love ASL the scene has zero new blood. SC2 really killed the Brood War scene, and League of Legends really killed SC2. The days of packing an aircraft hanger with 30,000+ fans for OSL finals are long gone.

I was invited to the Stormgate alpha, and while I can't say anything about it (NDA), I am hopeful it will bring new life into RTS esports.

It's still heavily played. There are tons of show matches and ASL which is good. There are newer players like Scan, and we had a couple new guys last season.

Is it in it's heyday? No. Is it still fantastic? Yeah.

KESPA killed Brood War primarily because Blizzard forced them to. Then KESPA itself died.

Lots of great BW still being played no question about that

IvOry just qualified for ASL. That’s definitely new blood.

Ah, good times. Lim yo han!! (Aka slayers boxers ? Right ?). As a Terran player, I was in such awe. And then came Flash (lee young ho), the GOAT. I watched every one of his games. StarCraft 2 never came close to the accidental perfection that SC1 is.

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