What games work on wine...

[creeping death]

I thought that somewhat older games would certainly work on linux...

but just now I was trying out The longest journey but when I tried to install it, a message poped up could not find ikernel.exe and the setup failed...

I felt that all types of setup files would run of sure, but here, even the setup failed..

any ideas...

and whats the deal with cedega? Isnt there an open source alternative better than wine and cedega?

[lazlow]

If you want help with games in wine, you would be better off going to the source:

http://www.winehq.org/

[creeping death]

ok
but whats the deal with cedega? Isnt there an open source alternative better than wine and cedega?

[lazlow]

Not that I am aware of.

[Kendoka]

cedega and wine are it... if you want to play the latest and greatest then you'll need to keep windows floating around... Jump on the bandwagon for linux ports of software where possible also.

What games are you trying to get working?

[creeping death]

Originally Posted by Kendoka

What games are you trying to get working?

Grim Fandango, The Longest Journey, Myst , Escape From Monkey Island...

[Kendoka]

Escape from monkey island is supposed to run in wine:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...TestingId=8508

Grim Fandango is broken in the later builds of Wine, apparently the new direct x functionality is breaking things. Another alternative is SCUMMVM which is an engine that is been written for Grim Fandango, not sure on how far they've progressed since last I looked at it...

[Dangermouse]

Hi, just to confuse you but playonlinux is pretty good and growing every day, easy to use and install, it supports more games every day,
http://www.playonlinux.com/en/

[creeping death]

Originally Posted by Dangermouse

Hi, just to confuse you but playonlinux is pretty good and growing every day, easy to use and install, it supports more games every day,
http://www.playonlinux.com/en/

got playonlinux...you are right, all the old games work on playonlinux, I have tried all the games until doom3...they more or less work...some goto fullscreen, whereas others dont...but its a great application...great alternative to cedega...thanks man...Now I am off to re-play longest journey...

[jbixby]

I have an install of Wine, latest Cedega and I also have a copy of XP and 2K running through VirtualBox so that I can play my games without any issue. Best thing about using VirtualBox is that if I get bored I can delete the image and restore a backup copy then start fresh.

Other option is to wait until someone in a suit finally decides that they can port games to Linux.

[WIld Wolverine]

Halo Combat Evolved works great for me.

Wild Wolverine