http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19685
--- Comment #5 from GyB gyebro69@gmail.com 2011-07-21 12:16:20 CDT --- Created an attachment (id=35631) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=35631) screenshot, comparison
Is this still an issue with a recent Wine? Also, what video card and driver are you using?
I ask this because I remembered having the same problem (no text in game) on my previous installation (Fedora 14). However, on my current Fedora 15 installation the game displays text (menu options) correctly. I can still reproduce the problem with an older Wine (around 1.1.35) but any versions past Wine-1.2.3 renders the text correctly. I haven't checked this bug for several months but I'm sure the problem was still there in Wine-1.3.x on Fedora 14 so I wonder if the fix might come from a Nvidia driver update?
Here's another, direct download link for the the demo (75 MB) in case anyone wants to test it: http://www.gamershell.com/download_25930.shtml
Fedora 15 Nvidia GeForce 250 / driver 275.19