Any luck with wine?

Suicide Junkie · #1 February 23rd, 2005, 01:53 AM

It uses directX.

There should be a wineX around that implements the directx stuff.

Ed Kolis · #2 February 23rd, 2005, 11:15 AM

Supposedly wine supports old versions of DirectX and you only need winex/cedega for DirectX 9, though...

Gandalf_greypilgrim · #3 February 23rd, 2005, 01:54 PM

I am the starfury maintainer over at the wine appdb, and I have been working trying to get this game to run for a very long time, with very little luck at all. Wine should be sufficient to run it, as it uses direct8, cedega/winex is mostly used for directx9, but also for securerom support. Wine now has its own dx9 implementation, but is useless since starfury is dx8. I've tried about a dozen different wine versions and they all behave similarly, and it is even worse when in cedega/winex. I'm probably going to take a very hard look into debugging the problem over the march break next week, I'll keep you posted.

Edit: In fact, would be neat if a bunch of us met on irc and figured out what was going on. If we can arrange that I'll post on wine-devel and see if we can get some devs to join in.

Thilock_Dominus · #4 February 23rd, 2005, 06:18 PM

Yup, I havn't any luck with Cedega either. To bad :/

Ed Kolis · #5 February 24th, 2005, 01:43 AM

Thank you Gandalf_greypilgrim!!!

Yes, let's arrange a meeting on IRC... who knows, maybe we could even get some input from Aaron Hall if we're really lucky?

Annette · #6 February 24th, 2005, 09:17 AM

I'm curious...is anyone playing Space Empires IV Gold with Cedega? Or any of our titles?

Thilock_Dominus · #7 February 24th, 2005, 10:44 AM

I'll try when I get home from work with SEIV Gold

Gandalf_greypilgrim · #8 February 24th, 2005, 11:05 AM

I play SEIV Gold all the time with wine, works like a dream! Some font issues, but as long as you use 1.91 it works a-ok. Older versions of wine had a problem with drawing ships, but that has been fixed. I've spoken a lot with Aaron Hall about how starfury was made, so I have a pretty good idea.
I usually create a room on freenode #nemesys , I usually hang out around there when I am doing work. I'll probably be in there Friday, maybe Saturday. I'll post on winehq again to see if we can get some devs to join in the fun.