Can't start a Windows game using Wine

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Dagny22
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Can't start a Windows game using Wine

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Hi all, I am new to Wine, and also to using Terminal. I installed Wine on my MacBook Pro to use a Windows-based sailboat racing simulator called Virtual Skipper 5 (I am a pro sailor and the game helps me with tactics). I think I've installed both Wine and the game correctly, but I can't get it to run the game. The problems may be as follows:

1. The game was not installed into the Wine C drive, and an ls lookup doesn't find the game file (Vsk5.exe). The game's files are somehow also located in my Downloads folder. I get the following message:

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/
ls
Common Files Internet Explorer


2. Something else required to run the game is missing? When I try to drag and drop the file pathway for Vsk5.exe into Terminal (from my downloads folder) I get the following message:

wine start '/Users/Dagny22/Downloads/\%SystemDrive\%/Program\ Files/Vsk5/Vsk5.exe'
Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!
err:start:wmain Unknown option 'L"/Users/Dagny22/Downloads/\\%SystemDrive\\%/Program\\ Files/Vsk5/Vsk5.exe"'

I am using OSX 10.8.5 and I have xcode, xquartz, and macports. Does anyone have any idea what is happening here?

Thanks very much!
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