Hello there Aidan When ever you play around with wine its best to have a look at the appdb
appdb.winehq.org on there you can see how well an app runs under wine and any config changes or patches you might need to apply Caleb Sawtell On 9/13/07, Aidan Gauland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I should probably introduce myself. My name is Aidan (the same one > asking about PC shopping, and Linux distributions), and I am using > Debian on an Intel machine now, but use my mother's iMac for using > the Internet. I'm playing around with C++ (more for generic CS > studies right now), Python, and looking at some Lua. I have also > played (less seriously) with HTML and CSS, but I still have to do > some of that (using FONT tags instead of CSS) for a brain dead > distance course (don't ask). > > Now I need a Wine hacker. I have tried several games with Wine, > and none work too well. I got to the end of one adventure game (The > Neverhood, if anyone's heard of that), but the closing movie plays > with no sound. And I had to muck with the settings to get that far, > because it kept crashing at a pervious point in the game. Another, > Where in time is Carmen Sandiego, plays well enough, with some > annoying sound and graphic malfunctions. Four games from the same > company can't run the installer even. And Riven, one of Cyan's Myst > adventure games, has some fixable sound problems, and crashes almost > right after the opening movie, you can move one step, and then when > you try to move another step, Wine spits out the same error message > for a terminal few screens saying to expect deadlock, and crashes > when you click in the window. With more debugging output, is says > something about a bad handle, when you do the same thing. I have > tried mucking around with Wine's configuration, and overriding some > DLLs, but it still does EXACTLY the same thing. > > I COULD run all these games, except The Neverhood which I borrowed, > in SheepShaver, but I would like to know if there is something I > could do to get these to run properly in Wine. I know there is > Cedega, which has better support for games, but it's not free (of > charge). > > Thanks in advance, > Aidan >
