Archive for the ‘kids’ Category

Programs using the root window considered obsolete in KDE4

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219249. Unfortunately this means that my wife and kids will not get upgraded to KDE4 once I’ll replace their 11.0 installations but will probably get GNOME instead. Because no xsnow (for my wife) and no xpenguins (for my kids) - that’s just not an option.

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WINE followup: Open Source Software Rocks!

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Just a short followup to my last post about WINE and the problems it had with “Avatar - Legends of the Arena”: most likely, with the next WINE version it will just work out of the box, due to this commit to the WINE git repository.

Yay! That’s quick bug fixing (or actually: implementing a feature). Thanks!

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WINE makes my kids happy

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Of course my kids have a Windows 2000 on their machine, used only as a “game bootloader”. And of course this Windows has no internet connectivity, since I would not even know how to keep it somewhat secure.
But now my son came up with that new, apparently uber-cool game from nick.com called “Avatar - Legends of the Arena”, and he really wanted me to make it work with his machine. Unfortunately this game is - of course - only available for Windows, and it needs an internet connection - something I was not willing to enable on the Windows installation.

The way out of the dilemma: WINE.
There were only minor problems, e.g. that the game would install, but then still could not connect to the game server, but a look at the console output showed

fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option 28 STUB
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option 29 STUB

And with the help of Marcus Meissner (also here), we found out that all that was needed to get it going was that the original W2K wininet.dll had to be copied to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/ and then the game could be started with

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="wininet=n" wine AvatarMP.exe

Cool stuff, WINE developers!

Now the next thing to get going is the TomTom Software ;)

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