http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24754
Summary: Nancy Drew "Tale of the Twister" demo text not rendered Product: Wine Version: 1.3.5 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: directx-d3dx9 AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: dank@kegel.com CC: wine-bugs@winehq.org
Here's where to get the game: http://www.herinteractive.com/games/tot/TOT_demo.zip 09c8e2180399462e6d5936d12341b6c8840ec730 TOT_demo.zip
With today's git and Matteo's four patch series (starting with http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2010-October/094566.html ) the game runs well.. but there's no text. Looks like it uses ID3DXFont.
Tony implemented that a while ago, see http://neobrain.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/font-goodness-cleanup/ http://repo.or.cz/w/wine/d3dx9TW.git/commitdiff/4e4e47bf0ba3236713472dfe5027...
so perhaps we're not far from having these apps fully working.