Space Empires with Wine

[Gryphin]

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 ]

[Krsqk]

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

I thought good wine was aged...?

[capnq]

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.

[Rio]

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?

[Rio]

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.

[tesco samoa]

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

[Rio]

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.

[Suicide Junkie]

Have you tried reinstalling from scratch while running winex?

[Rio]

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

[Gryphin]

tesco you are whining