Re: [newbie] Using Wine to play a Windows game?

2000-10-04 Thread Mark Weaver
copy the entire program dir that Hearts lives on your DOS partition to your Linux home dir, enter that dir in a terminal window and then on the command line call wine and name the executable you wish to run. Example: wine hearts.exe If all is well and you're not missing any .dll file

Re: [newbie] Using Wine to play a Windows game?

2000-10-04 Thread Mwinold
well wine is not the most stable thing in the world in fact i tried running it and it crashed, you can use vmware it is simular to wine but much more stable and includes full documentation on how to run it, im sure there are simular games ported to linux such as your "hearts" you can check plac

[newbie] Using Wine to play a Windows game?

2000-10-04 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear All, My husband thinks he is being deprived because he can't play his Hearts game ( a Windows compatible game) on Linux. May I use Wine to play the game? This is not the hearts game that comes with Windows. If it can be played by using Wine how exactly do I do that? I am a newbie so please