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Post by TheCollectiveUnconscious Thu Mar 11, 2010 5:08 pm

so i recently found out that since like two versions ago on wine we are able to play games and use fairly sophisticated programs on wine... and it just keeps getting easier. So far i've installed the orange box and photoshop elements 4.0 which work just as well as in windows after changing some settings.

okay so the first step is to download wine. Don't be a fool download the latest release of Wine from the ubuntu synaptic package manager this will keep it simple. go to Applications -> Wine -> Configure Wine. change the wine emulation version to windows vista and check the desktop emulation checkbox. Set the desktop resolution to whatever you choose. I have mine set to 1024x768 so its at a decent res but lets me access my desktop still which is 1366x768.

now most stuff thats a single disk and doesn't use a stupid keygen dll (aoeIII) will install just fine... if you prefer just run the steam installer and download your games... or if you want to use the disks like me it gets a little more complicated Sad . mount your first disk (just put the disk in the disk drive). open a terminal and type the following commands "mkdir ~/Desktop/Orange_Files" then type in "cp /media/cdrom0/* ~/Desktop/Orange_Files/" this will take ~5 minutes (you won't see anything in the terminal just wait till it goes back to your normal command line). eject the disk insert disk2 and repeat ("cp /media/cdrom0/* ~/Desktop/Orange_Files/") when that is done eject your disk, open the Orange_Files folder on your desktop and run the setup.exe and install!

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okay just remembered a problem i had.... when you copy the files from the disk the files are set as Read-Only... this is a quick simple fix just select all of the files in the folder (Highlight or ctrl-a) then right click -> properties then choose the permissions tab and change all of the drop-down lists to "read and write". this will remove the little padlock icon as well as let the installer do its thing Smile

NOTE: If you started installing this before changing the permissions you must restart the installer AFTER changing permissions for it to work...
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Post by DRS Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:24 pm

Do you have anything new that I don't have or tried, I like new programs? Also, am I the only one replying to this stuff?
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Post by The MacGuffin Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:08 pm

Does Team Fortress 2 work?
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Post by DRS Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:54 pm

Hmmm...haven't tried that... Orange Box on Linux 806940
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Post by TheCollectiveUnconscious Sat Mar 13, 2010 10:36 pm

i don't play TF2 but other people have it working... my laptop doesn't run games very well but thats probably because its a chipset and not an actual graphics card... i've just been messing with registry settings to get it working
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Post by The MacGuffin Sun Mar 14, 2010 12:30 am

Don't play TF2?
Only people who have never played TF2 don't play TF2.
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Post by TheCollectiveUnconscious Mon Mar 15, 2010 5:06 pm

i just don't like those kind of games... like i pretty much hate everything in halo except the story
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Post by The MacGuffin Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:52 pm

Oh, you'd be surprised, TF2 is nothing like halo.

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I'm not quite sure what to relate it to... Guess you'll just have to play it.
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Post by DRS Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:55 am

I liked it, but it does serve some resemblance to Halo.
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Post by TheCollectiveUnconscious Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:50 am

I've played TF2...i just don't really like first person shooters... except maybe half life thats a great game
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Post by Pickle Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:54 pm

lol, the bathtub
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Post by TheCollectiveUnconscious Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:51 pm

stupid battery
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Post by TheCollectiveUnconscious Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:38 pm

recently read steam and steam games may be coming to mac osx/linux natively
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=steam_linux_script
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Post by The MacGuffin Fri Apr 23, 2010 6:21 pm

SWEET! Can't wait to just install steam without that annoying WINE prototype.

*Glee* Orange Box on Linux Icon_biggrin

/hates wine
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Post by TheCollectiveUnconscious Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:56 pm

have you tryed playonlinux? its a wine frontend available in the repo...
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Post by The MacGuffin Fri Apr 30, 2010 1:34 am

I have heard about it, though last time I checked their site they wanted monies. Neutral

Though seeing as it's in the repo now I can only assume it's become free?

Though essentially I don't like having to run emulators (wine or otherwise), it eats up too much processing power and has a really buggy atmosphere about it, even if there are no bugs present.
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Post by TheCollectiveUnconscious Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:45 pm

its not an emulator... its just a front end that uses wine and has specially built installer packages... they have a list of supported programs
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