In Linux, no one can hear you Wine

[Cole Tuininga]

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 09:37 -0500, Lawrence Tilly wrote:
> I have so far tried two different games ( Master of Orion II and
> Pharaoh ) with the same results.  I'm able to run the installation of
> the DOS game, and in the case of Pharaoh where it has music playing
> during installation that sounds fine.  As soon as I try running either
> game though, they appear to play fine but absolutely no sound effects
> or music comes thru. The opening movies and cut sceens are as silent
> as in-game activity.

Suggestion - for older DOS based games, try dosbox instead of Wine.
(http://dosbox.sf.net)  I've had much better luck with that, and there's
less overhead.

Of course, that doesn't help much with Windows games.

-- 
Cole Tuininga <colet at code-energy.com>