wine users - Feb 2009 - Cannot find DVD/CD drive...

The transition from Windows to Linux has been more or less painless for me,
except for one thing; a game called Space Colony.

The WineDB lists it as Platiunum, Cedega lists it as something that can work, I
had high hopes to get it working on at least one of these systems.

After I installed the program through WINE, it popped up the autorun menu and I
clicked 'play' where I then got the error in the subject line; cannot
find dvd/cd drive.


Please, help! My sanity depends on this game!

On 2009-02-10 (Tuesday) 12:49:06 you wrote:
> The transition from Windows to Linux has been more or less painless for me,
> except for one thing; a game called Space Colony.
>
> The WineDB lists it as Platiunum, Cedega lists it as something that can
> work, I had high hopes to get it working on at least one of these systems.
>
> After I installed the program through WINE, it popped up the autorun menu
> and I clicked 'play' where I then got the error in the subject
line; cannot
> find dvd/cd drive.
>
>
> Please, help! My sanity depends on this game!
	Please make sure that you configured your CD/DVD-ROM in winecfg as CD-ROM (in 
winecfg go to Drives, click Add... to add your drive, specify correct path to
its
mount point in Path field, click Advanced and set its Type to CD-ROM; then click
OK). Also make sure to cd to the directory where setup executable is located and
run it like this:

wine setup.exe

	Alternatively you can use "wine start /unix" with full or relative
UNIX path.
Instead of "setup.exe" use name of the file autorun supposed to run in
Windows.
	If still doesn't work please post terminal output including command you are
trying to run.

Ok, got it working; bugs, though;

install and game work ok;

inbuilt editor fails to find any custom maps.

sound fails fifteen minutes into game.


I'm looking into the possiblty of running a virtualized Windows for other
apps that WINE dosent support, is this possible or is 3D right out the window?