I am trying to use Wine to run SimCoaster - a game with Platinum rating (albeit a little old):
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. ... &iId=17478
I'm running on ubuntu 16.04 and using wine version "wine-3.0-rc6" I installed wine on my system by following the instructions on this page: https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu. I chose to install the development branch. Once wine was installed I looked at the configuration using "winecfg" and changed the windows version to XP - this game was originally developed for win 95 but I know win XP supports it. There wasn't an option to change to an older windows version than XP.
The game is on a CD, I cd'd to the CD and ran "wine installer.exe", this ran the installer which seemed to work fine but the terminal stdout was spammed with
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0036:err:ole:ClientIdentity_QueryMultipleInterfaces IRemUnknown_RemQueryInterface failed with error 0x80004002
The install seemed to complete fine and the files were added to "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)"
I cd'd to the game's directory within "drive_c" and ran "wine Game.exe" - then nothing happened. The command "completed" (ie I got my terminal prompt line back) but nothing else happened, no logs to screen or anything. I tried executing the game using the entire filepath (which is suggested somewhere) but got the same result.
If anyone knows of anything I can do to get this running or some visibility into why it's failing I'd be so grateful (and will definitely be donating to Wine if I can get it working eventually )
I'm also more than happy to try anything people suggest or provide logs/diagnostics that might help
Thanks,
Henry