using Wine on a Mandrake 9.2

[labadie_1]

Hello

Basic question: I want to be able to use a Win2K program (Pinball !) with Linux booted.

I have tried various

wine /mnt/nt/xxx/pinball
to no avail.

Thanks for any hints.

Gerard

[Mark Grant]

What errors do you get?

I don't know if wine actually supports this particular application but do know that it can be a bit annoying trying to gt some apps to work with wine.

[labadie_1]

wine /mnt/nt/../pinball/pinball.exe

warning: could not find wine config (drive x) entry for current working directory (.../pinball): starting in Windows directory

/usr/bin/wine.bin: cannot find 'Pinball.EXE'

[Mark Grant]

Looks like the more simple of the problems youmight find with wine. It can't find the pinball executable using the path you have supplied. Check where exactly this pinball.exe is.

[Claudio Cilloni · Accepted solution]

give a look at www.winehq.org . You should find a link to a "Wine Application Database" (or something similar) that contains information about the specific wine configuration to a run lot of windows appications, including games.

I have a limited web access... I can't give you the right url :-) sorry

Ciao
Claudio

[labadie_1]

What I find at

http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine-user/config-verify

looks promising.

I will try that and let you know.

Thanks