I'm not sure if this is a dumb question, but I'm new to wine and new to my macbook so I don't know a ton.
Anyway, I downloaded the first Roller Coaster Tycoon game as a Windows game onto my macbook and I used wine and was able to open it and experience the magic that was my childhood. However, after hours of gameplay I had to exit out of my game and I saved. Shortly after, I realized that I had to reinstall my game because there was no installed file of Roller Coaster Tycoon anywhere on my computer.
So my question is: how can I install my game without having to reinstall it and give it it's own shortcut on my desktop?
(I use Wine 1.6 rc5)
How to keep an installation
Re: How to keep an installation
Hi pokemma1,
When you first start wine, it creates a folder named .wine usually under your user account. So it will be under: Macintosh HD/Users/YOUR_USER_FOLDER/.
Although, you won't see the .wine folder there, because it is hidden as all folders beginning with a dot. So to open it, start Terminal and enter the following command:
cd
open .wine
If this fails, you might have installed wine under a ceratain wineprefix (and you need to change to the location .wine is installed), what I don't think so.
Now, you can find there a list of folders of one of it named 'Program Files' after you have opened folder 'drive_c'. Usually, all your installed programs with wine are located there. So you can search now for the exe-File of Roller Coaster Tycoon and start it with wine. To do so, type in Terminal (typings are in italic):
1) cd drag n drop (grab the folder where the Start-exe-File is located and pull it into Terminal), so you get the full path you want to change to (command 'cd' is an abbreviation for 'change directory); confirm with Enter
2) Start the program: wine PROGRAM.exe (alternatively jump directly to 2nd step and drag n drop the exe-file first hand after typed in command 'wine', before changing directories
)
If you want to creat an icon on your Desktop, check the links below:
http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=19409 (scroll to my reply) or follow the instructions on this site:
http://www.davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/ ... #dock-icon
Hope my advices are of help for you
Cheers mate,
Maexel
When you first start wine, it creates a folder named .wine usually under your user account. So it will be under: Macintosh HD/Users/YOUR_USER_FOLDER/.
Although, you won't see the .wine folder there, because it is hidden as all folders beginning with a dot. So to open it, start Terminal and enter the following command:
cd
open .wine
If this fails, you might have installed wine under a ceratain wineprefix (and you need to change to the location .wine is installed), what I don't think so.
Now, you can find there a list of folders of one of it named 'Program Files' after you have opened folder 'drive_c'. Usually, all your installed programs with wine are located there. So you can search now for the exe-File of Roller Coaster Tycoon and start it with wine. To do so, type in Terminal (typings are in italic):
1) cd drag n drop (grab the folder where the Start-exe-File is located and pull it into Terminal), so you get the full path you want to change to (command 'cd' is an abbreviation for 'change directory); confirm with Enter
2) Start the program: wine PROGRAM.exe (alternatively jump directly to 2nd step and drag n drop the exe-file first hand after typed in command 'wine', before changing directories
)If you want to creat an icon on your Desktop, check the links below:
http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=19409 (scroll to my reply) or follow the instructions on this site:
http://www.davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/ ... #dock-icon
Hope my advices are of help for you
Cheers mate,
Maexel
