I've managed to get Swamp working. There's a delay when shooting, but all other sounds run very well. I'll put a guide together once I nail down the exact procedure. > On Nov 24, 2014, at 8:27 AM, Piotr Machacz <[email protected]> wrote: > > I got a couple of games to work with wine bottler, even managed to install > the sapi package. However I struggled somewhat with getting installing the > VB6 runtimes to work which caused directX 8 games, like the kitchensinc stuff > not to work. Other things like super egg hunt plus, swamp which used DX7 and > a couple of Japanese hsp games like world of war ran fine. The biggest issue > for me is the sound lag, which if I recall was about half a second. For fast > games this is a very long time. Maybe there's a way to reduce this, but all I > managed to find through web searches refered to reducing alsa buffers in > linux but nothing relating to mac. > > As far as accessibility obviously if the app in question has a user > interface, VoiceOver will see just its title. The frontends themselves work > well enough, for wine bottler, which is the one I'm most familiar with, you > have to simulate a mouse click to select winetrix packages to be included. > Other than that the interface is straightforward enough. > > On 11/24/2014 2:10 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: >> Hi! >> I am also intrested in this if someone got it to work. >> Thanks. >> /A >>> 23 nov 2014 kl. 20:52 skrev Alex Hall <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>>: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> I'm missing my Windows audio games, and my MBA lacks the space for a >>> virtual machine. So, I'm looking into getting some games running using an >>> app called Wineskin. If anyone is familiar with doing something like this >>> using any Wine port (Wineskin, Crossover, WinOnx, etc), can you please >>> reply to this message? I barely know what I'm doing, though my background >>> is in computers so I should be able to follow an explanation if I can get >>> one. Mostly, I'm not sure what packages to enable, and how to give the >>> games speech feedback. I'll also need to add some custom files and folders >>> (such as maps and sounds) to the profile of the game I'm currently working >>> with. Anyway, if anyone has a clue about all this, please do get in touch. >>> Thanks in advance! >>> >>> -- >>> Have a great day, >>> Alex Hall >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the >>> Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >>> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>.
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