Maybe I'm not using the site properly, but I looked for Riven, and
The Neverhood on the appDB and all I found was three listings from
people telling that THEY had good luck with it, but nothing from
people who had trouble, but then got it working.
As for what Barry said about using qemu, I need to get some Windows
install discs. My dad is asking around at work. I had thought about
using an emulator, but had no idea if speed would be a problem.
Sounds like it works fine for you, but what kind of machine do you
have? (Is it bleeding fast?)
Aidan
On 13/09/2007, at 3:28 PM, Caleb Sawtell wrote:
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
