wine users - Oct 2005 - KPI Games

Knowledge Probe Inc. makes some very nice math and word puzzle games. These 
worked a while back in WINE but not recently. (A lot of that going around, 
even now going to beta!).

I do not have their URL handy. They all fail with unregestered objects. 
Problematic in the past but not fatal was their trying to check for new games 
on line. I have never had such work with WINE.

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:18:37 +0200, David Baron wrote:
> These worked a while back in WINE but not recently. (A lot of that going
> around, even now going to beta!).
Probably new DLLs were introduced, that are now overriding the native
copies previously used. Try playing with DLL Overrides to see if you can
make it work that way.

On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 20:18 +0200, David Baron wrote:
> Knowledge Probe Inc. makes some very nice math and word puzzle games. These
> worked a while back in WINE but not recently. (A lot of that going around, 
> even now going to beta!).
> 
> I do not have their URL handy. They all fail with unregestered objects. 
> Problematic in the past but not fatal was their trying to check for new
games
> on line. I have never had such work with WINE.
You don't give much info to go on, so I googled and found a web site
[1].  I picked a free game at random [2], downloaded it and tried
installing it into a freshly created with "wineprefixcreate" .wine
folder.

The game installed without a problem (fixme:'s are not problems).  When
I tried to run the game wine presented a dialog that said I needed
Mozilla ActiveX controls and offered to download & install them.  The
download worked, however the install _FAILED_ .

I found a web site [3] with troubleshooting tips.  It suggested I was
missing two dlls, MSVCP60.DLL and MSVCRT.DLL.  I downloaded the zip file
[4] and unzipped it into ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system .

Reran the game, wine presented the same dialog about ActiveX.  This time
it downloaded & installed properly.  The game started, ran and played.

Score one for 0.9 wine.

[1] http://www.kprobe.com/kprobe/index.htm
[2] http://www.kprobe.com/kprobe/Downloads/SetupXMasMath.exe
[3] http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/troubleshooting.htm
[4] http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/runtime60.zip