Wine

[preacher]

Hello all. Im not a newbie to linux, but until recently I have never used Wine. My computer has no windows partition on it, can I still use Wine? Im trying to get Roller Coaster Tycoon working and I dont have a windows box. Maybe Sim City 2000 too. My distro is Mandrake 8.2, and I did install the wine packages, but Ive dont have a clue where to start and what to do.

[Crunchy(Cracked)Butter]

Just pop in your RollerCoaster Tycoon CD and see what happens, wine will automatically run whether it works or not is something else.

[lazygamer]

1)Can Wine run DirectX stuff?
2)How can I get alot better at configuring Wine, without actually trying to frustratingly configure it first?

[TheQuirk]

I can send you my .wine direcory. Then you'll just need to replace /home/glezhe with /path/to/.wine, install the Wine RPM, and then type in wine file.exe

[Centurian]

Wine does not run DirectX. I believe WineX is supposed to run DirectX.

Wine is very easy to use though. Once it is installed you only need to make a hidden directory. IE /home/user_name/.wine

Now run wine windows_program_name.exe.
Now you can run many windows programs in the same way or by double clicking on them in konqueror or what ever file manager you use.
I have never tried WineX so I can't say about it but I would think it would be simular. You would just have to tell it the path to the DirectX files.

The programs will have to (reside in/save to) a vfat partition though for them to work properly.

[slave]

Stay away from wine.  It's bad for your health, and having too much can cause brain and liver damage, not to mention crash your computer and make your hair fall out.

[SpeeDFreaK]

Go through the conf file for wine manually and define anything that looks fishy yourself. If it's set up correctly, you won't need a fat32 partition. But it's not perfect. Half-Life and SoF2 run pretty nicely, but no net play or sound.

[Calum]

hello, i have a recurring error in wine too, i wonder if anybody can advise.

i won fill up the thread here, because i already posted all the relevant stuff in this topic here. Can anybody help please?

[Master of Reality]

I have a WINE question too.
When i try to run halflife it tells me that i need at least 16 bit colour... my colour is 32bit. Its a half-life error that tells me this not a WINE error.

People at Half-life for linux places told me to use -winver win98 but it didnt do anything different

[SpeeDFreaK]

I checked in my conf file and changed what version of windows my virtual HDs were labeled. Or I upgraded wine. My X server is screwed up and I can't make sure it works now, but that's what I did. And out of curiousity does anyone know anything about lock files and what happens if you remove one?