In Linux, no one can hear you Wine

[puissante]

Cole Tuininga wrote:
> 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.

Will that run the old Zork games? Wine had problems with that the last I 
tried.

-Fred