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* [http://www.cedega.com/support/about-cedega/ Cedega] (formerly known as WineX) is a commercial "run Windows games on Linux" translation software, naturally focused on DirectX support. It also has some sort of limited, but free, open source demo version. Cedega was retired in February 2011, but it's back-end was rechristened [[Game Tree Linux]] and became completely free (albeit still requiring one to sign up for the service). The company behind Cedega, Transgaming, also offers a technology called "Cider" to quickly port PC software to the Mac OS X platform.
* [http://www.codeweavers.com/ CodeWeavers]' CrossOver products were Cedega's primary competitor. Like Cedega, they offer Wine distributions that have been modified with proprietary code. Unlike Cedega, they offer different versions of their software for different purposes. They also offer a version of their product that allows Intel Mac OS X users to run windows apps without an emulator or dual-booting. CodeWeavers is quite popular in the open-source community, as much of their proprietary code are often released back into the open-source WINE project.
* OpenGL does not sit and wait for better support, there are extensions that translate or emulate DirectX functionality (mainly aimed for Wine), up to [http://www.klayge.org/2014/03/25/announces-dxbc2glsl-a-hlsl-bytecode-to-glsl-compiler/ translation of DXBC code to GLSL], with the long-term goal of converting any D3D shaders into GL.
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