Howdy Folks, I'm trying to run Cryo's Arthur's Knights under wine. I've managed to install using setup.exe, but when I go to play the game, I get an error message telling me to insert CD #1, even though CD #1 is in the CD-ROM tray and mounted. Any clues as to why I would be getting this message, how to convince the game that the CD is actually in the CD-ROM drive, or how to research any of these issues myself? Thanx, Ian -- "How am I supposed to blend? I'm two feet taller than everybody else in here!" -- Chris Tucker Rush Hour 2
--- "Ian D. Stewart" <idstewart(a)compuvative.com> wrote:
Howdy Folks,
I'm trying to run Cryo's Arthur's Knights under wine. I've managed to install using setup.exe, but when I go to play the game, I get an error message telling me to insert CD #1, even though CD #1 is in the CD-ROM tray and mounted.
Any clues as to why I would be getting this message, how to convince the game that the CD is actually in the CD-ROM drive, or how to research any of these issues myself?
Thanx, Ian
-- "How am I supposed to blend? I'm two feet taller than everybody else in here!" -- Chris Tucker Rush Hour 2
hello, i noticed your problem and thought I would take a gander at it. It could only be 1 thing and there are 3 ways to try to solve it. The problem is that the game more than likely uses copy protection to prevent software pirates (warez kiddies) from making illegal copies of it. Under the cd drive's section ([Drive D] or whatever) remove the line that says "Label" = that will allow wine to read the name of the CD...some games use the name of the cd as their only copy protection (Frogger 2), and if that is the case with your cd, then that would fix it. The 2nd way would be if they used some sort of on-cd copy protection (safedisc or securerom), to check out TransGaming's version of wine (dubbed WineX). It has many games supported (has the ability to read safedisc/securerom-enabled cd's) and would be able to read it. If that doesn't work, you can always call for a vote for them to support it and put the safedisc/securerom code into their program. The 3rd and least recommended way is to get what is called a crack. It allows you to use the game without the cd being in the drive. But remember though that the government of the US and many other countries considers it illegal and you could go to jail for using one. Most users have no problem using cracks though, because they do own the game, and there isnt any law that says that you can't disable the cd checking if you legally own the game, so its really a morality issue there. I won't tell you where to get them (for the sake of morality and because the maintainers of this list probably wouldn't like it anyways), but they aren't too hard to find, ask around on IRC and you can probably find it... -Dustin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com
I'm trying to run Cryo's Arthur's Knights under wine. I've managed to install using setup.exe, but when I go to play the game, I get an error message telling me to insert CD #1, even though CD #1 is in the CD-ROM tray and mounted.
Does wine output any CD-related message ? Laurent Pinchart
On 27 Apr 2002 23:00:09 +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
I'm trying to run Cryo's Arthur's Knights under wine. I've managed to install using setup.exe, but when I go to play the game, I get an error message telling me to insert CD #1, even though CD #1 is in the CD-ROM tray and mounted.
Does wine output any CD-related message ?
No. The only message that gets displayed is: fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_SetCooperativeLevel (0x4039d2f0)->(00000000,00000008) This appears just prior to the dialog asking me to insert CD #1. As I understand it, this is telling WINE to go to full screen mode, so doubt it has much to do with the CD issue. Ian -- "How am I supposed to blend? I'm two feet taller than everybody else in here!" -- Chris Tucker Rush Hour 2
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 02:44:50PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote:
Howdy Folks,
I'm trying to run Cryo's Arthur's Knights under wine. I've managed to install using setup.exe, but when I go to play the game, I get an error message telling me to insert CD #1, even though CD #1 is in the CD-ROM tray and mounted.
Any clues as to why I would be getting this message, how to convince the game that the CD is actually in the CD-ROM drive, or how to research any of these issues myself? The Wine Users Guide should tell you everything you need to know (hint: device setup). If that doesn't help, then come back and ask us how to debug this. www.winehq.com/Trouble/ should have helped, too.
In any case, wine-devel isn't exactly the right place for such a "standard" question. -- Andreas Mohr Stauferstr. 6, D-71272 Renningen, Germany Tel. +49 7159 800604 http://home.arcor.de/andi.mohr/
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