Re: Any luck with wine?
 

I was about to ask you about fixing that, then I realized that wine is open source and I can fix it on my own copy! All hail open source! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif
Oh, and if Aaron is reading this, thanks for being so willing to explain to Gandalf how SF was made - I know a lot of developers are very secretive about their design processes!

Re: Any luck with wine?
 

Euh, just to clarify, I don't know much, he didn't go into details or anything, I just know that he wrote it in Delphi 4, using dx8 , the rest of the information comes from my own euh, knowledge...

Yes, yes, long live the FOSS!

Edit: oh btw, which wine version are you running and under which distro?
I am 20050111 under gentoo.

Re: Any luck with wine?
 

I'm running 20050211 under Fedora Core 3.

Say, on the topic of wine and SE, do you have any idea what causes these 2 errors in wine with SE4? They don't occur in winex...
1. When the combat replay appears, the log window doesn't go away; it hides most of the combat window; you have to press escape to quit the replay and go back to the game. A similar thing happens in Stars! with the splash screen, though fortunately you can just start a game by typing the game name and hitting enter.
2. Minimizing or alt-tabbing SE4 and then restoring it causes it to appear in a really tiny window from which about all you can do is quit.

Re: Any luck with wine?
 

The best I can say, is to go back to an earlier wine. I just tried it out, and neither of those bugs occur with me with wine 20050111.

Re: Any luck with wine?
 

Is Saturday okay for everyone to meet on irc? If so, I'll put the post on wine-devel asking for people to help out.

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Saturday's all right. What time?

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I'll be on from about 15h00 UTC, I will make it a top priority and should be on for most of the day, or as long as it takes. I'll be in #starfury on irc.freenode.net .

Re: Any luck with wine?
 

So how did this go, get everything to work?

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Too much work, not enough time. I will take another shot at it once I track down a regression that caused SE:IV to stop working.

Re: Any luck with wine?
 

Don't minimize with the se4 button; use your window manager. Set your desktop to something higher then 1024x768, tell wine to load se4 in a 1024x768 vdesktop by adding this to your config
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
"Managed" = "Y"
"Desktop" = "1024x768" </pre><hr />
If you or your system isn't happy with high res. the only thing I can think of is to add the 2 lines above to the wine config, use enlightenment, set the window to borderless, center it, and alt+rclick-iconify. I don't know how to do this with any other window manager.