On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Francesco Ariis <fa...@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. > > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > 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. -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */ Please consider the environment before printing this email.
