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lazygamer:
Well, Wine is sure confusing. I looove step by step instructions, even I can follow them. So would a kind soul here show me how to use Wine to run an 0ldsk00l game?

For starters, im not sure whether Wine has a windows GUI emulator or not, if it did, that would make it super easy for me.

Anyways, I want to run shattered steel in an emulated windows 95. It was made in 1996 and can run on dos/windows. Older win-compatible games are easier to emulate in Wine then newer games, correct?

Wine is currently installed. I know I should take all the time to learn it, but there's a reason im called Lazygamer. I wanna play some 0ldsk00l... now!  ;)

Master of Reality:
you are not worthy of advice (did you notice the thread about Calums religion?) but here...
first what needs to be done is configure wine.
go into ~/.wine and edit config. Its pretty straight forward and i believe it will explain what to do... use some of your non-bob sense  

then all you gotta cd to /mnt/cdrom (if its on cd) then 'wine install.exe' (or whatever the install file is) it should bring up the installer program just like it would in windows and then you jsut install it.

I'm sure there is much more, but this is a breif summary of what to do.

lazygamer:
Well thank you MOR. Im making a little bit of progress with Wine. Perhaps I need to install and configure SSTEEL in XP, then try and run it in Mandrake. It seems a little tempermental though. Like the install screen had some of the text cut off, and the soundsetup woulden't work at all, and I get a stub exec error when I try to run the game.

If installing in wind0ze don't work, then I'll just have to run ZSNES 1.337 for Linux, which im sure will work just fine.

Ice-9:
Sure hope you'll have more luck than I did with gaming under Linux.
I tried to set up Quake 3 Arena a while ago and it runs perfect (even more frames than in Windoze) except for the fact that I can't get the sound running at all.
After digging and asking around it's probably due to my soundcard not being worthy of ID Software's games, at least in Linux.
I didn't try to setup any more games (primary reason being that most other games I play don't have a Linux port), if you find out that Wine (or WineX) is good enough I might give that a try 'cause I'm pretty bored of having to reboot in Win all the time when I wanna play.
If I remember correctly from another thread on these forums WineX isn't exactly up to speed yet to emulate all Windoze games :/

[ August 13, 2002: Message edited by: Ice9 ]

lazygamer:
WineX and Wine, difference? What I notice about Wine is that it loves to run your install programs ok, but coughs whenever it actually has to run the game.  :(

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