Old game and CD support

Rémi Barthoumieux · Post by **Rémi Barthoumieux** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 3:17 am

Hello

Sorry i’m a newbie in the wine world, I recently change my OS for Linux , I
would like tot test some old game with wine (abandonware), and i Have the
classical problem : the install works perfectlys but there is a problem with
the CD detection. I’m maybe an idiot but i tried with the wine option (i
choose the repertory nd the i launch…) i tried with acetone iso/ furius ISO
and after that with other program like piwer iso, ultra iso (with wine),
nothing works. I don(t think they use CD protection in 1995 nor 1997….

So IS there an Add-on or way to say to wine simply : read that iso, not an
other / in place of a repertory system wich doesn’t work (I tried also to
extract the iso on a repertory selected with wine as a CD rOM…)

The mounted iso or Bin will be shown as a linux CD-ROM. To explore it and
install the game (via setup.exe)

Is there a project to make wine have his own ISO /bin mounting module ? by
recycling other GNU code ?

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Post by **dimesio** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:40 am

Rémi Barthoumieux wrote: i tried with the wine option (i
choose the repertory nd the i launch…

Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by this. By "repertory" do you mean directory? How exactly did you try to launch the installer? Post terminal output, including the command used to start the installer. Also, what version of Wine are you using, and what game is this?

Rémi Barthoumieux · Post by **Rémi Barthoumieux** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 10:12 am

All my apologize but i'm french... so i make some mistakes , yes , of course
directory (in french we said "repertoire" or "dossiers"(=files )

Wine Version 1.3 on Ubuntu (the narwhal) i used the Gui interface, I also
tried Q4ine, I tried by the command way but, it's not my cup of tea.... I
tried to use isos from an abandonware website... They are not corrupted on
windows...

I could use a no-cd patch, but i don't want to lose some part of the game
(video, sound ....)

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Rémi Barthoumieux wrote:

i tried with the wine option (i
choose the repertory nd the i launch…

Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by this. By "repertory" do you
mean directory? How exactly did you try to launch the installer? Post
terminal output, including the command used to start the installer. Also,
what version of Wine are you using, and what game is this?

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Post by **dimesio** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:14 pm

Rémi Barthoumieux wrote: I tried by the command way but, it's not my cup of tea..

Maybe not, but in order to troubleshoot a problem we generally need console output.

I tried to use isos from an abandonware website... They are not corrupted on
windows...

Have you tried burning the iso to a cd and running it from there? Wine does not do cd emulation, nor does AcetoneISO, so if the game is designed to communicate with a real optical drive it will fail. There's a more detailed explanation of why in another thread: http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=12746.

SpawnHappyJake · Post by **SpawnHappyJake** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 2:03 pm

Ah! You summoned me! You are_not_ emulating a cd drive. I thoroughly explained this elsewhere, so here's a link:

http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?p ... ght=#63474

You need Cdemu. You can install it and gCDemu through Synaptic.
Please read my posts in the above link.
After you install CdEmu and gCDemu and restart, right-click your panel, say "add to panel" and chose "gCDEmu". At least that's how it works with Gnome on Linux.

You can click the emu bird on your panel and use the popup menu to select an image to mount with actual emulation.

Remember, simply displaying the contents of an iso in a folder _does_not_ magically produce hardware. The kernel lying and saying there is extra hardware _does_ magically produce hardware. In order to actually emulate an optical drive, there has to be a hardware name for the emulated drive, it must obey SCSI commands, appear to be attached to a controller which itself has a hardware name, the optical drive needs to look like it has a vendor and a firmware version, and it needs to report it's abilities. Simply mounting an iso doesn't do that. CDemu does
Cheers,
Jake