Re: [orca-list] another playable Windows game under Wine

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Kyle,


On 11/8/12, Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com> wrote:
> I used to be able to run Jim Kitchen's games in Wine. I used to be able
> to install the Windows SAPI components and eSpeak for Windows, and the
> game menu and games would start talking and were quite playable. 5 years
> ago, all this worked quite nicely. Sadly, I haven't been able to play
> these games since some time in late 2010 or early 2011. I really miss
> Jim Kitchen's games, especially Golf, Football and Baseball. If anyone
> has gotten these games working recently, please do let me know how you
> did it, and what I might need to get it working. Thanks.

In my experience the big problem is that Wine outputs audio through
alsa but Gnome is configured for pulse. Therefore you will end up with
problems with games working in Wine. one way to resolve said problem
is to run aoss bfore launching the game with Wine.