On Fri 21 Nov 03, 1:55 PM, Bryan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:01:58AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > hi bryan, > > > > DOS programs generally don't work on wine. so if you're talking about > > really old ones like redneck rampage, you need to use DOSEMU. > > > > if you're talking about win32 stuff, what games? most of the older > > stuff works really well on winex. > > > > and note the "x" at the end of "winex". wine is not winex. and winex > > is not wine. > > > > winex: > > you must pay for it. works out to be $5/month > > specifically for games > > > > wine: > > free > > not too good with games. useless for direct-x stuff. > > > > note that i've been told that DOSEMU can run some win32 apps (by DOSEMU > > developers), and wine/winex can run a few DOS apps (by wine developers). > > but i have yet to see an example for myself. ;) > > > > pete > > > Pete, > I do indeed have winex. The game in question is Longbow 2, which came > out around 1997. It wants DirectX 5ish, I think. Transgaming doesn't > even have a support page for Longbow 2, although they do have one for > Jane's i686, the submarine sim that came out directly after Longbow 2 > (or thereabouts). Although they aren't supporting it yet, the one > comment a user had was that the game's installer complains about being > unable to access the CD, then dies. I experienced the same thing with > Longbow 2. To me, that almost sounds like something that might just > require a little config tweaking, but like I said, I'm not good with > wine/winex. there's something called Point2Play which is a graphical interface wrapper around winex. to install it:
1. download it from transgaming.com 2. uninstall winex (that's not a typo) 3. install Point2Play 4. run Point2Play 5. put your transgaming account in the textbox 6. click the "install winex" button 7. go through the 4 tests a well designed graphical interface is often simpler to work with. > Thanks for reminding me about dosemu. Another program I was wanting > to run was Thrustmaster C&CC, the utility used for programming TM > joysticks and throttles. It's a DOS program. > (apt-get install... attempt to run...) > Ok, what does "Sorry, there is no operating system. Have a nice day!" > mean? Hahaha so much to learn. oh, you mean for dosemu? dosemu can be a bitch to install. it was even harder last year when you had to install all kinds of patches to get games and sound working. it was nuts. pete -- "Nobody steals our chicks. And lives." -- Duke Nukem (played on Linux) GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
