[Wine] Re: Dos very old app

[Darragh Bailey]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 06:28:44AM -0500, Lorenzo wrote:
> I have already tested it in dosbox, and i find out it is a windows application.
> It's Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold Version. I made it running by the xinit command vitamin wrote up here but it runs too fast to play properly.
> thanks to everybody for helping

If this is the version of Pirates that I think it is, I'm impressed that
wine managed to run it :)

There are a number of games by the same or similar name, so it would
help if you could be specific about it.

1987 Sid Meier's Pirates
1993 Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold (Sequel to the 1987 release)
2004 Sid Meier's Pirates (Remake of the 1987 release)


The first message you posted indicated that it needed either 16 or 256
colours, which suggests to me that this is the 1993 release of the 
game and not the one's released in either 1987 or 2004. I'm fairly 
certain that the 1987 didn't support 256 colours, and that the 2004 
version supported more than 256. 

At the same time the executable you are  running doesn't have the name I 
expected to see, since I remember it being PIRATESG.EXE. 

I do however remember that the game could be played in either 16 or 256 
colours depending on the power of your system. I had a 386 back in those 
days and so had to let the game run the conversion tool since I didn't 
have enough video memory to play the game in 256 colours.

The '93 one was released in the days of Windows 3.1, which was really
just a GUI on top on DOS, so the odds are that this is in fact a DOS
game and not a windows game.

Unless of course you actually have the 2004 version, which would
surprise me that it expects to run in 256 colour mode.

I have the '93 release of the game and I can try taking a look at that 
when I get home tonight.


-- 
Darragh

"Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool."