Unscientific test: wine is 0 for 3 on under $20 top sellers

[Dan Kegel]

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

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6527 	
Zoombinis Logical Journey version 2 aborts on startup

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6528 	
Crazy Machines aborts silently on startup

I guess we have our work cut out for us still...
- Dan

[Mike McCormack]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> The first three came today, and sadly, wine from git fails
> to install one, and fails to run the other two:

Well, at least we're 2 for 3 with installers :)

Mike

[Troy Rollo]

On Thursday 26 October 2006 14:20, Dan Kegel wrote:
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6526
> Typing Instructor for Kids 2 fails to install
>
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6527
> Zoombinis Logical Journey version 2 aborts on startup
>
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6528
> Crazy Machines aborts silently on startup

Kids games are hugely problematic in Wine - offhand I can't think of one that 
has worked. Even if they install they often won't run. Even if they run they 
often won't display correctly, or will have input problems.

-- 
Troy Rollo - wine(a)troy.rollo.name

[Jeremy White]

Troy Rollo wrote:
> On Thursday 26 October 2006 14:20, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6526
> > Typing Instructor for Kids 2 fails to install
> >
> > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6527
> > Zoombinis Logical Journey version 2 aborts on startup
> >
> > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6528
> > Crazy Machines aborts silently on startup
>
> Kids games are hugely problematic in Wine - offhand I can't think of one that 
> has worked. Even if they install they often won't run. Even if they run they 
> often won't display correctly, or will have input problems.

Speaking as a parent, that's a horrid tragedy! <grin>

Actually, I've done the same sort of survey,
but only with my kids games.

Historically, Wine has been quite bad, but it's
getting better.  Lately, for example, the Humongous
games have kicked over towards mostly working, and
the Knowledge Adventure ones are pretty good.

(Of course, that could just be that my kids are outgrowing
those, so our copies are really old versions now :-(  ).

Hopefully once we nail copy protection, Wine can really start
to support some games.

Cheers,

Jeremy

[Tony Lambregts]

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