the Wine (Windows under Linux) thread

[newklear]

mIRC under Wine

I was always very fond of mIRC for the MSL side and still use it, there are a few pages online to show how it's done but for those that come from a Windows backround and used to love mIRC here is what you do presuming you already have 'Wine' and 'wget' installed, from Terminal:

1. wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
2. sh ./winetricks riched20 riched30
3. wine /media/disk/"Program Files"/mIRC/mirc.exe
or
Depending on your Distro make a shortcut
or
Execute it from your file manager.

 

[BigAl-sa]

I'm wanting to install Kindle for PC on my netbook, and the recommendations are for wine 1.3. However, the wine 1.3 install requires a font, ttf-umefont, which is a massive 52MB. How on earth can a font be 52MB? Anyone want to hazard a guess as to what's so important in it that wine should need it?

 

[ponder]

Anyone want to hazard a guess as to what's so important in it that wine should need it?

Because MS apps require it to function? Just a guess.

 

[wishblade]

a quick google of ttf-umefont shows that its a japanese true type font package consisting of several ume type fonts.

 

[BigAl-sa]

Because MS apps require it to function? Just a guess.

a quick google of ttf-umefont shows that its a japanese true type font package consisting of several ume type fonts.

It's evidently an Ubuntu (prolly Debian) distribution update. I really can't see why the installers see it as required...

BTW, Kindle for PC works very well.

 

[BigAl-sa]

An antique game that I enjoyed very much is Stars!. It works very well under wine 1.3.24 and Debian Wheezy.

Younger gamers will hate it as the graphics looks awful, it's turn-based and you really have to micro-manage your empire. THe biggest problem with it historically was how the developers handled the serial numbers, especially when they upgraded. The link I've given contains a boxful of serial numbers, so you can get into email games again.

 

[MyWorld]

Here is a quick guide I put together for getting Steam on Linux, the easy way and manual way.

http://mywereld247.blogspot.com/2011/07/team-fortress-2-free-and-installing.html

 

[The_Unbeliever]

*resurrects thread*

 

[ginggs]

Thank you, TL.

Wine development version 1.7.55 was released last Friday:
https://www.winehq.org/announce/1.7.55

 

[ginggs]

Since the release of 1.7.55, Wine is in code freeze (bug fixes only) preparing for the release of 1.8 by the end of this year.

The last stable release (Wine 1.6) was released in July 2013 and 1.8 will bring many new features.

Official builds of Wine 1.8 are now available here:
https://launchpad.net/~wine/+archive/ubuntu/wine-builds

 

[ginggs]

Wine 1.8 released!

This release represents 17 months of development effort and around
13,000 individual changes. The main highlights are the implementation
of DirectWrite and Direct2D, and the new Pulse Audio driver.

It also contains a lot of improvements across the board, as well as
support for many new applications and games. See the release notes
below for a summary of the major changes.

More details here:
https://www.winehq.org/announce/1.8