wine users - Sep 2008 - billiard game

hi everybody,

i'm trying to run a small billiard game with wine, but i cannot make it
works

the game is here:

http://web.tiscali.it/chiesi/software/ita/biliardo2.html

windows version

when i run

wine setup.exe 

a small window pop up and then disappears, but i have no entry in wine menu

i use ubuntu 8.04 and wine 1.0

bye

Looks like a bug in wine i guess. I used 'cabextract' to extract the
files manually, and ran the game from the extracted directory. It seemed to
start fine to me

hi qwertymn

could you show me exactly the steps you did?

i tried this:


Code:

zaffa at zaffa-desktop ~ $ cabextract biliardo.zip 
biliardo.zip: no valid cabinets found

All done, errors in processing 1 file(s)




also, how can i get a log by wine when installing a software? with a detailed
log maybe it would be easier to solve the problem

you do that on the setup.exe that is in the zip-file:

cabextract setup.exe

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 6:33 PM, zaffa <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> hi qwertymn
>
> could you show me exactly the steps you did?
>
> i tried this:
>
>
> Code:
>
> zaffa at zaffa-desktop ~ $ cabextract biliardo.zip
> biliardo.zip: no valid cabinets found
>
You need to extract the ZIP file first, Try you favourite archive
program, or unzip. (Unzip might need to be installed...)
mohag at mohagpc ~/billiardo $ unzip biliardo.zip
Archive:  biliardo.zip
  inflating: setup.exe

Then ou should run cabextract on setup.exe:
mohag at mohagpc ~/billiardo $ cabextract setup.exe
Extracting cabinet: setup.exe
<snip list of files>
All done, no errors.

You can then try to run it:
mohag at mohagpc ~/billiardo $ cd files/App/0/
mohag at mohagpc ~/billiardo/files/App/0 $ wine Biliardo.exe

It seems to run fine, except for some mouse weirdness... (Mouse hit
imaginary barrier at a few places on the screen and need to be moved
back first before being able to move past that line... I experienced
similar weirdness in a few other games...)

You might also be able to run the DOS version under Dosbox, although
DOSBox is slow compared to Wine...
>
> also, how can i get a log by wine when installing a software? with a
detailed log maybe it would be easier to solve the problem
>
Run it from the command-line with more WINEDEBUG settings set...
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-3b297df7a5411abe2b8d37fead01a2b8edc21619

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-a37de3282d447376d2220d20a278ae52258551a4

http://www.codeweavers.com/support/docs/wine-user/x2194

If you want to a file, use output redirection.

http://www.mathinfo.u-picardie.fr/asch/f/MeCS/courseware/users/help/general/unix/redirection.html
(look at the section about Bourne shell if you do not know which shell
you are using...)

Gert

thank gert and qwertymn, i could make it run

regards