HAYNES'S PROFILE

author=mtarzaim
Sorry, didn't work with mine ...

First, I didn't found winetricks in the Ubuntu library.
Maybe it's the main issue.

Second, the game (here, Drunken Paladin) crashes à la Windows (the program has encountered a serious issue and must close).
If I disable the sound in Wine, I get a "Failed to initialize DirectX audio", and the program stops immediatly.

I tried it on Ubuntu 10.10, Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz 392 Mo RAM nVidia 8400 GS.
I know, it's an old machine, but that's the point of Linux: make useable what isn't anymore with Windows.

You should also give the Wine configuration used.
Mine was the standard one. Maybe there's something to tweak in it.

Thanks anyway for your work. It will help the Linux gaming community to widen.

the wine configuration is the standard one.
And afaik winetricks should be in the standard ubuntu repos. If not, you can try adding the ppa from winehq.com (Will get you newer wine versions too)
The error failed to initialize DirectX audio is probably because directx9 was not installed.
That's what the Script does. It installs directx9 and tells wine to use the nativ dlls from it.
(You can open the script with a text editor to see the exact commands)

author=Rave2010
About setting-up midi in wine I wrote more complex article which explains almost everything - where get good samples, how to set all properly, etc. Unfortunately it is in Polish. I'll translate it, but first of all I need to find it.

Well I didn't want the article to get complex.
There are several Complex Tutorials how to enable the midi support.
But I wanted to create something that the average user can use without needing much knowledge on the bash or needing to read a long tutorial where he has to copy and paste many things..
I created the scripts so users can just execute them once and are able to play the games.
I figured most users won't care why exactly it works now.
The important thing is that it works without doing much.
(We're all lazy after all :P )

Hello,
I recently tried to play some rpgmaker games on my Ubuntu installation with wine.
I noticed several Problems while i was playing.
1.crappy fonts
2.no midi playback
3.no mp3 playback.

I googled a while and finally managed to resolve all those problems.
To make it easier for other people i wrote some bash scripts that will configure your wine installation for you so you can play the games perfectly :)

So let's get started with a mini tutorial.
The scripts require the following packet to be installed:
After you've installed those 4 packages you just need to extract the scripts and run them like this:

Here is the download link for the scripts: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1NGGU6HE

I hope that this post will help some people :)
If you used the scripts it would be nice if you could give me a little feedback if everything went well :)

regards,

Haynes

PS: I hope that i posted this in the correct Forum. If not, please move it to the correct one :)