Hi Petr, Honestly, I don't know. That's an issue I'm still trying to figure out. I can get Jim's games to work with the Microsoft voices Mike, Mary, and Sam, but can't get any of my commercial voices to work with them via wine.
On 6/25/11, Petr Bláha <hammet...@seznam.cz> wrote: > Hi Thomas, thank you, i will try it and we'll see if i'll be successful > or not. > By the way, when you mentioned opensapi, i tried it with acapela voices, > but when i install new voice i can't see it. I still see only microsoft > voices anna, sam and mike. > I tried to install sapi 4 and sapi 5 voices, but i still can't see them > in voice selection, what i might do to run it? > > On 25.6.2011 17:03, Thomas Ward wrote: >> Hi Petr, >> >> Storm Dragon and I are working on a faq/howto on this subject, but >> playing games under wine is problematic at best. Certain games such as >> Shades of Doom have technical problems playing under wine. For >> instance in Shades of Doom if you press enter to open a door the game >> will crash. I've experienced similar difficulties with Sarah under >> wine as well. Other games like Jim Kitchens games work alright >> provided you get all the necessary packages installed. Here is a basic >> list of things you need if you want to run games under wine. >> >> * Install wine 1.3 or newer. The newer the version of wine you have >> the less problems you will encounter. >> * Using winetricks install vb6run, vcruntime2005, vcruntime 2008, >> dinput, directmusic, directplay, directsound, xaudio, xact, and >> xinput. This should setup up most of the basic dependencies you will >> need. >> * Download and install Open Sapi for wine from sourceforge. Do not let >> it update or change your speech-dispatcher configuration or it will >> cause issues with Orca. >> * Install Jim Kitchen's winkit which will help add missing >> dependencies as well as give you the basic menu system for his games. >> * Install games you want to play or test under wine. >> >> That's basically the procedure in a nutshell. However, I will say >> though if you are running pulse audio you might have to make some >> configuration changes in order to make wine run better with pulse >> audio. The other option is to install the alsa-oss package and do >> something like >> "aoss wine gtc.exe" >> to launch something like tank commander with wine and using alsa-oss >> as the default sound driver. >> >> HTH >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 6/25/11, Petr Bláha<hammet...@seznam.cz> wrote: >>> Hi list, >>> few weeks ago, i have missed the discussion here, about games and it's >>> functionalyty under the linux with wine emulator. >>> Did you tried any games like shades of doom, gma tank commander, three d >>> velocyty, topspeed, monkey busyness, alien outback and so on, with wine? >>> And were you successfull or not? >>> I thing that thomas ward wrote something about package which is >>> necessery to install to force these titles work under the wine, but - i >>> have read that mail in hurry so im not sure whether i understood >>> properly or not. >>> >>> >>> >>> --- >>> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >>> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >>> gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >>> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >>> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >>> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. >>> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >>> list, >>> please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. >>> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. >> > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
