[Wine] Mechwarrior 2 under wine

[Mark and Janice Juszczec]

Sterling

I was afraid of this.  Will research and post results.

Mark

http://www.geocities.com/juszczec/shawJCCkarate.html




>From: "Sterling Christensen" <sterling.christensen at gmail.com>
>To: "Mark and Janice Juszczec" <juszczec at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Wine] Mechwarrior 2 under wine
>Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 15:57:34 -0800
>
>It's probably copy protection. You might need a crack.
>
>On 3/3/06, Mark and Janice Juszczec <juszczec at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi folks
> >
> > I"ve downloaded and installed wine on RedHat 8, kernel 2.4.19 (and 20)
> >
> > The install for Mechwarrior 2 has run without errors.
> >
> > When I give it:
> >
> > wine .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Activision/Mech2/MECH2.EXE
> >
> > I get an error window saying:
> >
> > "You must insert the MECHWARRIOR 2 CD into your CD-ROM drive."
> >
> > Of course, its already there and the drive was mounted with the command
> >
> > mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> >
> > and I've used winecfg to set up wine to think of /mnt/cdrom as d:
> >
> > [markj at localhost markj]$ ls -l .wine/dosdevices/
> > total 0
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 markj    markj          10 Feb 27 16:28 c: -> ../drive_c
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 markj    markj          11 Mar  3 14:37 d: -> 
>/mnt/cdrom/
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 markj    markj          11 Feb 27 16:29 h: -> 
>/home/markj
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 markj    markj           1 Feb 27 16:28 z: -> /
> >
> > Has anyone worked with Mechwarrior 2 (Win95 version) and wine?
> >
> > Any ideas what to try next?
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > http://www.geocities.com/juszczec/shawJCCkarate.html
> >
> >
> >
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