Wine, anyone?

[agger]

Does anybody out here have experience or even success using wine?

I've been trying several times, but it always seems to fail some way or the other. Most PC games will actually install using wine, but when I try to run them, they will (usually sooner rather than later) just run until a point (within, like, two minutes) where wine throws up its arms, shows me a prompt and goes "I can't do that"-crash!

I just tried running a game in mame32, and mame32 launches perfectly, I start the game, and I get the usual full black screen: "There are known issues with this game type OK to continue", type OK, and ... nothing happens!
I type OK and OK and OK, try switching to other windows using alt+tab,nothing helps - in the end I have to turn off the power.

Maybe wine just isn't ready for use yet and if you do want to use it, you should
download the source code and make it ready for each Windows program individually?

Anybody have experience with all this out there?

[amohanty]

Have you looked at Cedega?
www.transgaming.com

[Ubunted]

As I understand it, WINE is only supposed to simulate win32 APIs - which would explain why the installers work - not OpenGL or Direct3D environments. So no, games won't work. That's Cedega's mission.

[Burgundavia]

Wine does not yet have a fully working DirectX9 implementation. That is coming along with major work being done right now.

Cedega does but it is non-free.

Corey

[ghostintheshell]

I only use WINE to backup my DVDs with DVDShrink ... WINE is not only for games :razz:

[panickedthumb]

you do know there's XMame for us linuxers right? :)

[agger]

you do know there's XMame for us linuxers right? :)

I tried to get that working on my FreeBSD desktop, but failed:
It actually works, i.e., it runs the games, but it doesn't make them run
full screen. A MAME display is way, way too small on a 1024x768 display.

But, right now I'm apt-getting it for my Ubuntu box and then I hope
I can make it work better on Linux :-)

thanks