Space Empires with Wine
 

Out of curiousity, has anyone ever tried running either Space Empires III or IV on Linux using the Wine windows enviroment layer? Of course, I'll see for myself once I get my se4 CD back in a couple days, but it would be nice to know ahead of time.

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Oh, a serious thread. And I thought it was a reincarnation of this thread right here.

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Hah! Fooled ya!

Anyways, it appears that SEIV -does- work on Linux, for which I'm grateful.

The only two problems I've run into so far is some text running over their alotted space (which is easy enough to ignore), and a problem with the design creation window not popping up when I hit "create" (which is badbadbad). If anyone has any suggestions in fixing this, shoot away.

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How about reinstalling the game, that always works http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Other than that, Don't know a thing about linux, sorry.

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Linux? you mean to tell me their is something out their other than WindowsME? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif Heretic! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

[ December 03, 2002, 01:16: Message edited by: President Elect Shang ]

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I prefer my Space Empires with a Martini, stirred, not shaken.

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Yea it works...

I have been playing it for about 2 years now on the linux box...

I just tested it on openlinux 3.1.1 with the latest wine...

So... Away we go...

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I thought Wine was sued by microsoft for copyright infringements and the project halted?

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Wine and SEIV do not mix. I always loose when I try that. If you are going to make sure it is a "blood red" wine.

Seriously,
I may now have a reason to run a Linux box. Cool. I love to not use Micro$ponge when I can.

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It might not have been Wine then, but I do know Microshaft shutdown a program company that was making a Version of Linux to be user friendly.

[ May 24, 2003, 23:51: Message edited by: General Talashar ]

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I think you are reffereing to "LinDos" or something. I thought it was still in court? No?

[ December 03, 2002, 15:08: Message edited by: Gryphin ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I thought good wine was aged...?

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WinE is a (Open Source, IIRC) Windows emulator for Linux. Lindows is a commercial OS that supposedly can run both Windows and Linux programs. Microsoft sued the company that makes Lindows for trademark infringement; I think the case is still wending its way through the appeals courts, but I haven't followed it closely.

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Ehh, well, if Lindows dies, it'll be no big loss IMHO. I tried the first Version of their OS, and it drove me nuts. Almost as bad as windows was. You have to purchase a special computer with it preinstalled, or pay money for the operating system itself. And then you have to purchase a subsription to download all the specialy packed packages (Lindows didn't have support for rpm's or the make/gcc compilers to install anything) that make Linux Linux. Probably the only time you'll see me cheering on Micro$oft.

By the way, I'm still open to suggestions for tweaks for wine and/or wineX in running Space Empires.

And by the by, does SE III run any better?

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I didn't see anything on the wine page about them being halted. The Last micro$oft lawsuit I knew of was between them and sun (for use and rights regarding java).

Maybe I'll try playing the game with wineX installed, though i don't know if the directX layer will help with it.

Once again, input (especially helpful input) is appreciated.

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All your wine jokes are poorly written.

If you were in Canada I would say that either

A) your a script writter for Mike Bullard

B) Your Mike Bullard

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Cool. It appears that WineX eliminated the two problems I was having with Wine (overflowing text and windows that wouldnt popup), however, two more present themselves, though both I can live with.

1) Occasionly, the icons for the ships go "invisible" so you can't see them, neither when you click on where they are, or when travelling across space. This only happens occasionly, so is no big problem.

2) In my first installation, Wine let me use the patch program to upgrade to the newer Version of se4gold. But now that I'm using WineX, the patch claims that my executable is not patchable.

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Have you tried reinstalling from scratch while running winex?

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Yep. My original post dealt with a fresh install under wine, and my Last post was a fresh install with winex.

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tesco you are whining

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probably WinE is not emulating the windows API functions SEIV is using(correctly or at all, or in the manner SEIV expects), so Id take it up with the WinE people, but they dont know a thing about SEIV I bet
Unless SEIV uses weird function calls to Windows or something... that a Windows emulator would not have at all

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Anyone know of any other windows/directx emulators that might be worthwhile to spend time downloading?

I'm enjoying playing it, but having the ship icons disapear now and then gets pretty annoying.

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Im sorry, but I dont know linux at all (other than basic OS stuff)

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I got SuSE Linux personal 9.0 four days ago and I cant get se4 to run very good (no sound, fuzzy text and the Matrix Launcher doesnt change the path). Could someone who has got se4 to work tell me how to (without wineX I dont got the money for that).
My system:
compaq presario 5000 series 5wv270
win98se and SuSE personal 9.0
wine v 20030813
750MHz AMD duron
384MB SD100 RAM
nvidia fx5200

I am new to Linux

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bump
tesco samoa? salsadoom? anybody?