Masa's Journal: Testing Wine

After long, long time I decided to test Wine. I grabbed the latest source code, compiled it and installed with the script provided by the package.

Wine is one amazing piece of a software engineering work. Unfortunately I have been able to run only one game so far under the Wine. But what game... Unreal. The game that I was barely able to run under the Windows 98. It works perfectly under the Wine. Even the sound effects work. The game play is flawless under the 1024x768 resolution.

I'm not able to play SimCity 3000 or Fallout 2 and that's the big minus. Not entirely a minus for Wine but for the game developers who create weird code with some custom hooks to the underlying system.

The only things which seem to work almost perfectly are setup programs. For example Install Shield setup will work nicly with Wine. Wine even offers uninstall.exe/uninstaller.exe tool for having a replacement for Add/Remove panel which can be used to run uninstallers.

Apparently the latest version of the Wine is a tool which deserves more examination and experimentation. Who knows, maybe I'll be able to play SimCity under the Linux some day...

Update:

I got Fallout 2 working. I had to install a patch provided by Blackisle. Only thing NOT working right now is keyboard. I can't give descriptions to game saves :(