Hi all,
i'm an happy ubuntu user, so i haven't a windos S.O. installed into my computer. no more.
Urw is a windows game, but somewhere I read that it's possible to install and play urw in a linux based machine too, using WINE.
i see that program and i think it's very difficult for me to use.
anyone can post here a detailed guide or a manual to install and play successfully URW under wine?
thanks everyone!

oops!
maybe this is an 3d for tecnical help section...
sorry.

http://www.winehq.org/site/getting_help
http://www.winehq.org/site/howto

mh...no... that wine guide help it's too dispersive for me... i must read too much things in this way...
i'm looking for something like a directly urw player experience.

anyway, thank you

Open terminal:

Then it will ask your password, give it and push return(cursos wont move while you type your pword).

Then you will need windows machine. Download UrW package, open it at windows and extract those files. Copy them to usb-stick/cd-rom/whatever.

and then copy them to your home folder at Ubuntu.

then open again terminal:

then

And it should work.

A new bugfix version 3.10-1 is available as non-installer .zip archive here:

www.elisanet.fi/tila/urwarchive-3.10-1.zip

No need for windows machines anymore. I'll start providing pure archives with every release from now on. I think it would be good to add detailed Wine FAQ at the homepage too.

Thanks for the zip archive!

It has made running on mac much easier, thanks!

Dave.

How did you get this running under a Mac?

I'm using Darwine and it crashes straight away.

Returns an error about 'loadkeyboardlayout' or something similar.

Hi Bearhugger,

As long as I cd to the urw game directory (where urw.exe is) and then type "wine urw.exe" (without the quotes) from a terminal window it works fine.

I'm using wine 0.9.49 - not the most recent, but that should work too. Did you get darwine from the (very) old sourceforge page, or a later wine build from http://thisismyinter.net/?p=29

If all else fails, it runs well and easily on Crossover (the commercial version of Wine).

I'll happily help if you want any clarification or assistance.

Dave

Hey proffles

I did have 0.9.60 but then I downloaded this custom build - http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/

Not sure which is newer, Im guessing the one in your link. But the build Im using now seems to work better for other apps.

I will try your method from terminal.

will it recognise the 'wine' command? Or do I need to define it somewhere like environment variables in Windows.

Bearhugger,

Oddly, I've just tried the pre-compiled darwine - yours seems to be the latest version, but it seems to hang at "sound init" after opening the urw window... not sure why.

My own compiled wine (compiled from source) does not have this problem, not sure why, apart from it being old, it's a vanilla install.

As to "will it recognise the 'wine' command?", probably not. A compilation puts 'wine' in a sensible location (in my case /usr/local/bin/), if you've put the application in /Applications (as it suggests) then you might have to either add "/Applications/Darwine/Wine.bundle/Contents/bin/wine" to your $PATH environment variable, or do this from the command line each time:

cd /path/to/urw/game <- put real path here (just drag the folder to the terminal)
/Applications/Darwine/Wine.bundle/Contents/bin/wine urw.exe

Tell me what happens!

Dave

I am trialling Crossover and its looking good. However I am getting some sound lag. Do you get this with Darwine?

Sound lag? The sounds annoy me so I have always just turned them off!

As for crossover - make sure you can use the alt-<whatever> shortcuts - I had to redefine the default shortcuts (which is simplicity itself, if you've install Xtools) and it plays great.

I'll try a new version of wine and compile it myself to see if I can find whether its the newness that is killing it.

Any Linux users still having trouble with it hanging at "Sound Init"?

OK,

sorry for the bad form of following up my own reply...

Mac OSX users who don't want to pay for crossover... I've just installed an admittedly quite old version of wine via macports and it works well. (Doesn't hang at the "sound init" bit)

How to do this? Well, there's a nice page describing the process here

http://davidbaumgold.com/create/tutorials/wine-mac.html

I am likely to purchase Crossover since I need it for other stuff.

Have you heard of Crossover Games? UrW doesn't work in that and has the hang at sound init problem!

Aye,

Crossover is well worth the money; and it goes to support wine. (Even better value for non-americans with the weak dollar. Education discount is even better!)

wine on OSX (10.5) still doesn't work with openGL, whereas crossover does (it uses its own compiled version of X-windows, not the Xorg one). But still, wine can still be used for URW quite well - at least 0.9.49 and 0.9.52... I haven't tried any others.

(Curiously, even with crossover, occasionally urw hangs on "sound init"... Trying again seems to sort it though).

Dave.