i post in this section a technical request of help post:
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!


p.s.
i tried to install te urw-3.10.exe typing in console

the nullsoft intaller appears, i select a properly folder to install the game, but when it try to extract it show me and error:

and now i can click only on repeat, ignore o cancel.


PLZ HELP ME! :rolleyes:

Yes, there are many Wine players out there, but unfortunately I can't be much of a help here. So please; you succesfully play UrW under wine please help the guy out here. Starting from the scratch if required. Then, I don't know if the game is more compatible with certain Wine versions?

Wine stuff:

I experience the same difficulty and had to resort to another method of installing (using an emulator for the installation). Play worked fine in wine, though.

Sami - is the installer really necessary - can't you just zip/tar/whatever up a directory and allow us to unarchive it? It seems to run without needing any access to external directories and would make installation on Linux and MacOS X much simpler. (And we don't care about shortcuts to the desktop, anyway!)

Regards,

Dave.

Ah, haven't really thought about the installation package... indeed there could be just a simple archive in addition to installer. But I remember someone reporting here at the forums a linux unarchiver which does unarchive files from nsis (urw uses) installers? Couldn't find the post since the search engine is really disabled not by me, but the invisionfree forum control... And I don't know why it has been offline for months and months now...

So, if you reading this now do know a linux unarchiver that can easily unpack also installers let us know about it.

Tried few linux unpackaging programs and were not able to open it. So i went to neighbour and unpacked it with windows there and copied files to usb stick.

Copied files to home directory and tried to run it with wine, it starts but freezes on "sound init..."

and console says:

wine is version : wine-0.9.46
OS: Ubuntu 7.10


Sooo, any tips would be much appreciated.

edit:
My machine is:
Amd Athlon XP 3200+
1 gb memory
and NVidia GeForce FX5500

i did your same method:
i extracted urw in a windows s.o. then i copied it in my linux distro.
i tried wine 09.59 command line in my ubuntu 8.04 and urw works PERFECTLY.

about your problem....
i think your mistake is in the command you put in the console..
you must type

while you are in the urw's folder and it would work

It gives same error. Gotta update my Ubuntu box at weekend and try again, could be that wine version which is messed up. Althought those errors it gives are pointing to X and more detailed to keyboardlayout which confuses me a big time.

Päivityksen jälkeen toimii moitteettomasti, ja ihmetystä herättää että wanhalla läppärillä UrW toimi vielä pykälää vanhemmalla winellä Debianissa myös moitteetta.

Noh, pääasia että nyt toimii :)

You can extract the installer with 7zip as Toth or someone on this board suggested.
And for the sound problem, just update to the newest version of your distribution.
I found the new kernel or whatever that came with it got rid of the sound init issue.
As a workaround on your current setup run winecfg and uncheck the alsa or oss option or whichever is activated under the audio tab (this of course sees you without sound in UrW then).. :)

Does someone have any idea what exactly it was in the newer Linux kernels that fixed the sound init problem?

I'm currently resorting to Crossover Games to play UrW on my MacBook and it behaves pretty much exactly as on my Linux setup when the Windows version of UrW was first released (i.e. starting up UrW hangs in the sound init phase seemingly randomly).

Tuomo,

Um, no I don't know what it was in the kernel that fixed it. But I *do* know that UrW will run on my MacBook Pro using normal crossover, if not crossover games, and also using wine (at least from 0.9.41 up to 1.0)... The problem with wine seems to be the config files - unfortunately I don't know specifically what. I believe I meddled about with the crossover ones and used them to alter the normal wine ones.

I don't imagine this is particularly helpful, and I didn't document the process, nor find out specifically which bit of the process fixed it :(

It was on my list of things to do to help others in similar predicaments.