Written by d.Saturday, February 5, 2011

Sniper Elite on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick sound issue

As always, the lack of /dev/dsp bites on old games also with wine. As a getaround, launch wine with ‘padsp’ (like padsp wine…). Works also in the shortcut created by the game.

Written by d.Saturday, December 25, 2010Saturday, December 25, 2010

Meego 1.1 on Toshiba nb 200 rocks

I recently axed Ubuntu on my netbook. Even if it perfomed correctly, I felt it was a bit overkill with netbook and did not cope well with the small screen. Panning with alt+mouse is ok, but I didn’t feel right. I decided to go with Meego, a Linux from the Linux foundation. I just love […]

Written by d.Tuesday, October 5, 2010Tuesday, October 5, 2010

SRIM2010+wine-1.3.3+linux=Platinum

As a preliminary report, I’d like to say that SRIM 2010 installs and runs flawlessly on wine-1.3.3 on an amd64 system. Maybe the time as arrived and we can grant SRIM a platinum rating on the Appdb Wine Database. The VERSION file issue, where you have to manually fill a text file (or the executable […]

Written by d.Thursday, May 6, 2010Thursday, May 6, 2010