billiard game

zaffa · Post by **zaffa** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 7:10 am

hi everybody,

i'm trying to run a small billiard game with wine, but i cannot make it works

the game is here:

http://web.tiscali.it/chiesi/software/i ... ardo2.html

windows version

when i run

wine setup.exe

a small window pop up and then disappears, but i have no entry in wine menu

i use ubuntu 8.04 and wine 1.0

bye

qwertymn · Post by **qwertymn** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 8:51 am

Looks like a bug in wine i guess. I used 'cabextract' to extract the files manually, and ran the game from the extracted directory. It seemed to start fine to me

zaffa · Post by **zaffa** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:33 am

hi qwertymn

could you show me exactly the steps you did?

i tried this:

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zaffa@zaffa-desktop ~ $ cabextract biliardo.zip 
biliardo.zip: no valid cabinets found

All done, errors in processing 1 file(s)

also, how can i get a log by wine when installing a software? with a detailed log maybe it would be easier to solve the problem

qwertymn · Post by **qwertymn** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:56 am

you do that on the setup.exe that is in the zip-file:

cabextract setup.exe

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 1:06 pm

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 6:33 PM, zaffa <[email protected]> wrote:

hi qwertymn

could you show me exactly the steps you did?

i tried this:

Code:

zaffa@zaffa-desktop ~ $ cabextract biliardo.zip
biliardo.zip: no valid cabinets found

You need to extract the ZIP file first, Try you favourite archive
program, or unzip. (Unzip might need to be installed...)
mohag@mohagpc ~/billiardo $ unzip biliardo.zip
Archive: biliardo.zip
inflating: setup.exe

Then ou should run cabextract on setup.exe:
mohag@mohagpc ~/billiardo $ cabextract setup.exe
Extracting cabinet: setup.exe
<snip list of files>
All done, no errors.

You can then try to run it:
mohag@mohagpc ~/billiardo $ cd files/App/0/
mohag@mohagpc ~/billiardo/files/App/0 $ wine Biliardo.exe

It seems to run fine, except for some mouse weirdness... (Mouse hit
imaginary barrier at a few places on the screen and need to be moved
back first before being able to move past that line... I experienced
similar weirdness in a few other games...)

You might also be able to run the DOS version under Dosbox, although
DOSBox is slow compared to Wine...

also, how can i get a log by wine when installing a software? with a detailed log maybe it would be easier to solve the problem

Run it from the command-line with more WINEDEBUG settings set...
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-3b297df ... b8edc21619

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-a37de32 ... 52258551a4

http://www.codeweavers.com/support/docs/wine-user/x2194

If you want to a file, use output redirection.

http://www.mathinfo.u-picardie.fr/asch/ ... ction.html
(look at the section about Bourne shell if you do not know which shell
you are using...)

Gert

zaffa · Post by **zaffa** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 5:54 pm

thank gert and qwertymn, i could make it run

regards