HOWTO: Al Emmo with Ubuntu Linux + Wine

[scobes]

I posted a howto on the himalaya forums:

http://www.himalayaforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8476

Okay, Al Emmo runs okay with a plain wine installation but the videos don't play and you can't use the keyboard, you also can't use the mouse unless you play in a desktop.  So here's how to make it work properly.

First you'll need a patched version of wine.  The mouse patch I found... somewhere... and the keyboard patch I made based on an email on the wine-bugs list.  These patches probably work on newer versions of wine, but they're tested on 0.9.5.  So download wine:

Code: ags

wget http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-0.9.5.tar.bz2

and get the patches attached to this message, save them all in your home directory.

open a terminal (if you don't already have one open) and type:

Code: ags

tar xfvj wine-0.9.5.tar.bz2
cd wine-0.9.5/dlls/dinput
patch -i ~/mousehack.diff.txt
patch -i ~/keyboard_hack.diff.txt
cd ..
cd ..

and compile wine with a simple:

Code: ags

./configure
make depend && make
sudo make install

Follow the howto at http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php49585 except for the part about installing wine to get media player set up (it comes with IE) so the videos will work.

Now Bob's your uncle!

If it still doesn't work, try using winecfg to make wine run in a virtual desktop.  Any problems, post here and maybe someone who knows more than me will help you.

Oops, forgot about the patches.  go here to get them: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1592436#post1592436

seems to work fine.  probably works with other windows ags games but i haven't tried yet.  solves that pesky mouse/keyboard issue.  have fun!

[strazer]

Thank you. I don't want to compile Wine myself, so I'm waiting for the patches to be implemented. Good to know the mouse/keyboard issues can be solved.

Btw, you can only download the patches if you're a member of ubuntuforums.org. Could you please upload them somewhere else for us so we don't have to register?