On 8/15/07, Scott Paul Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 02:23:32PM -0700, Bryan Murdock wrote: > > > Have you tried wine out for these programs yet? I can run the latest > > > version of Picasa (not the Google distributed version) under wine and > > > it works great! > > > > I haven't tried lately (as in, the last 2 years or so). Wine has > > always been such a pain, sometimes working, and sometimes not. The > > little CD-ROM games were especially difficult to get working. Has it > > gotten any better? > > > > I've had pretty decent success with wine with very minimal > configuration. Simcity 2000 installs and plays under it just fine.
OK, I tried wine. It was the simplest to try, and I figured it would fail quickly and I could move on to virtualbox or vmplayer. I was wrong. Um, well, on the second part. Right on the first, wrong on the second. Anyway...to set it up I did: sudo aptitude install wine I tested it on a little executable that I got from my sisters wedding photographer. After some initial wine configuration stuff (I accepted all the defaults), the slide show played (complete with cheesy "wedding" music). Cool. Then I popped in the first CD-ROM game that my kiddos have (JumpStart Toddlers, if you must know). A billion dialogs popped up asking if I wanted to browse the files or play the music on the CD. After dismissing all those I saw a dialog asking if I wanted to permit the autorun to execute. Spooky. I clicked OK and the game started right up. Very spooky. Next CD (Blues Clue's Backyard Fair). No offer of autorun, but I found the BluesCluesBackYardFair.exe in the nautilus window that popped up and double clicked it. I think it asked me what application to use and I told it 'wine' and off it went. This game actually wanted to install itself. Dubious, I clicked OK and the windoze installer popped up and started to run. This was getting really weird. It froze. I tried again, and it worked. After the installation (into some mysterious C:\Program Files location*) the game played. Wow. I tried another game (don't remember what it was), that also wanted to be installed. No hang this time, it worked. A couple others were the same, but then one of them tried to install quicktime. I think I had to reboot to get out of that mess. The more I thought about it, that game never worked on windoze either. Overall, I'm very impressed with wine. I don't think a normal person would have persisted through the extra dialogs and occasional hangs, but for me it wasn't too bad (did I just say I'm not normal?). Now that it's all set up, I think my wife and kiddos will be fine with it for their cheesy CD-ROM games. Thanks for the recommendation! Bryan * I did find the ~/.wine/drive_c directory before too long. It still creeps me out though. I know it should be safe, but seeing my beautiful Linux machine popping up dialogs about autorun and allowing stuff to install into C:\Program Files...it just feels so dirty. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
