On Thursday 13 September 2007 18:21, barry wrote: > 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.
Well, FWIW, I can verify that qemu running MS Win98 will run Doom. > > Barry > ------------------------- > > 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 -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from "Schoolboy Howlers" - the collective wisdom of the foolish. ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
