Unscientific test: wine is 0 for 3 on under $20 top sellers
Tony Lambregts
tony.lambregts at gmail.com
Thu Oct 26 20:09:58 CDT 2006
Dan Kegel wrote:
> I ordered about fifteen titles from Amazon and Half.com
> that were under $20 and were on the top 100 sales list.
> The first three came today, and sadly, wine from git fails
> to install one, and fails to run the other two:
>
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6526
> Typing Instructor for Kids 2 fails to install
I could not find an entry in the AppDB for this application.
>
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6527
> Zoombinis Logical Journey version 2 aborts on startup
There is an entry for version 1 of this game and it looks like it has
the same problem
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=5048
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5403
>
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6528
> Crazy Machines aborts silently on startup
>
This one might be in the AppDB but it is unclear which version you
tested.[2] It looks like it runs (if it is installed in windows) but the
"Mouse always Recentered" bug makes it unplayable.
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=4468
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=4473
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=4479
CC:ing the maintainer of these apps...
> I guess we have our work cut out for us still...
> - Dan
>
If you won't create an AppDB entry for the other two applications at
least tell me what distribution you are using so I can create entries.
--
Tony Lambregts
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