wine users - Nov 2008 - strange fonts in flight simulator 98 and wine 1.0

I installed flight simulator 98 using wine 1.0 and have fonts that look like
chess pieces and zeros. The pull down menus are ok, but the dialog boxes are
unreadable. I have the *.ttf files installed in wine. Do I need to install
directx from the flight simulator cd into wine? Do I need a specific font file
or do I need set the path to the font file?

ilikewine wrote:
> I installed flight simulator 98 using wine 1.0 and have fonts that look
like chess pieces and zeros. The pull down menus are ok, but the dialog boxes
are unreadable. I have the *.ttf files installed in wine. Do I need to install
directx from the flight simulator cd into wine? Do I need a specific font file
or do I need set the path to the font file?
>
>   
code:

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
winetricks corefonts

This will install the corefonts used by MS into the proper place.  You
will have to accept the Microsoft licenses.

James McKenzie

Thanks, that worked. Now I have to figure out how to keep the game from crashing
when I try to take off.