Hi Aidan,
Have you thought of running windows inside an emulator?
I use pagemaker with win98 inside qemu. Its a little slower than running
in win98 directly but very reliable for my purposes. Sorry I can't
advise on games.
Barry
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Aidan Gauland 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
