On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Francesco Ariis <fa-ml@ariis.it> wrote:On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 02:58:00PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I have an image of the old Windows 98 Entertainment Pack floppy. I'd like
> to run one of the games that's on it, TIC.EXE. It's not in PlayOnLinux's
> list of applications or games, and I'm completely new to trying this.
I remember this one! Wine should really do the trick: `apt-get install wine`
and then `wine TIC.EXE`.
I'm not sure I can do that. I have the install disk image, and the file names are slightly mangled, and I suppose the actual files are too.I need to run SETUP at least, and I'm just hoping it will work.
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It did!!! I mounted the floppy image, cd to it, and ran
wine SETUP
and it said it was installing, and that the programs would go in C:\WEP
So I ran
wine C:\\WEP\\TIC
and lo and behold! it ran.
From my point of view, even better, the program I'm working on beat the Windows program's expert mode handily.
That's what I wanted to find out.
Maybe I'll try that tictactoe thing too, but it wants to install a HUGE list of packages (150 or so) that I'm not so sure I want. Qt things. Unity things. libgweather??? I'm actually running Xubuntu for a reason. Maybe I'll do it in trial mode from a live disk first. If ever.
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