Magic: The Gathering, by Microprose

[Shorty]

I'll apologize early as I am new to internet forums.

Has anyone been able to get Microproses "Magic: The Gathering" working in Ubuntu?
I'm talking about the Win98, card-game. Not the 3D or action games.

I dont care for the online-only version of Magic. Too expensive and lots of unpleasant people.

[dataw0lf]

I see no reason why it wouldn't work through wine / cedega. Try that, and get back to us.

[Shorty]

I see no reason why it wouldn't work through wine / cedega. Try that, and get back to us.
Now for the hard part, can I run it with a live cd, or do I actually have to install Ubuntu?
Again, please forgive my ignorance. Linux frightens me.

[Raven-sb]

Hi,

To the best of my knowledge you'll need to install Ubuntu to your hard drive. Having said that Ubuntu is pretty painless to install and you have a great community here that is willing to help. I suggest that you read this

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=26690 for help on installing Ubuntu for the first time.

Warmest Regards,

Raven

[aniruddha]

I see no reason why it wouldn't work through wine / cedega. Try that, and get back to us.
Hey, am a total Ubuntu newbie currently running Wine 1.0 on Ubuntu Hardy.

I am completely unable to get Magic the Gathering (with the Duels of the Planeswalkers and Spells of the Ancients add ons) to work.

I get the following error message:

err:seh:raise_exception Exception frame is not in stack limits => unable to dispatch exception.

Could anyone please help? This is pretty much the only PC game (excepting Civ2, for which FreeCiv is a solid substitute) which I still play regularly...

[GSZX1337]

According to the AppDB (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2740)Magic: The Gathering doesn't work under WINE. What you could do is i the game has a software rendering mode (since the game is for Win 98, I'm guessing it does), you can get a copy of Win 98 (if you want to do things the legal way) and set up a Virtual Machine.