I found an old favorite game recently, Master Of The Skies - The Red Ace, by Small Rockets (now defunct). This is an exciting fun game, with biplanes chasing the enemy over France in WWI.
On a new PC, with Lubuntu 12.10 OS, and Wine 1.4 (various subversions), and Radeon HD 6410D graphics and driver, I can install it. It runs the setup part of the game in full-screen, no problems. Then you start the action part of the game and it looks great and the sound works, but -- mouse and keyboard are ignored
, so it's not playable. After 30 sec or so the airplane crashes as expected and you are returned to the setup part of the game. The mouse/kbd work again. So it's all perfect except for no mouse/kbd during play.In Wine 1.5.25, with everything else the same as above, it's much worse -- a few seconds after starting the app, it goes full-screen black, then your Linux desktop comes back. The app is still runnig -- you can hear the music.
This was tested with near every possible setting in Wine and PlayonLinux, incl. virt. desktop, different graphics modes and resolutions, rawinput 2 and 3, D3D9, etc. I ran DXDiag and got no errors (but I don't really know much about DirectX stuff).
So does anybody know why mouse/kbd don't work in Wine 1.4, but then it totally croaks in Wine 1.5?
Free download of app here:
http://downloads.yahoo.com/software/win ... ace-s13461
That is a demo, but it's the same software as the full app (in the locked version of the app, you can only do the training missions). But if the demo works in Wine, then the full app would work.
I have submitted the app to the AppDB.
Any ideas or help with this would be greatly appreciated!
