http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34713
Bug #: 34713 Summary: Treasure Adventure Game: dialogue text unreadable Product: Wine Version: 1.7.4 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: rixa@cs.tut.fi Classification: Unclassified
The dialogue text displays wrong and is unreadable.
The game starts with a scrolling screen of text that does render correctly, followed by a scene on a boat with lots of dialogue that are all garbled. The first line of dialogue is supposed to be "Baggus: What do you say we turn back before this storm sends us to a watery grave?", but it looks more like:
a|††”’Y?v‡|“?ƒŽ?~Ž”?’|~?–„?“”‘|?||‚Š?|„…Ž‘„?“‡^’?’^–Ž‘Œ?’„|ƒ’? ”’?“Ž?|?–|“„‘~?†‘|•„^
(This is not exact - some characters render on top of each other, it's hard to tell if there are spaces, and all the | are probably something else instead.)
It is probably meant to be displayed in the included smalle.fon. Wine does not pick this up from the game directory. It has its own smaller file that gets used instead, but replacing that with the one from the game doesn't work any better.
I get readable text if I delete smalle.fon from wine entirely; then the game renders with some anti-aliased vector font instead. While obviously an improvement, it doesn't go visually very well with the low-resolution retro graphics of the game.
The game is one of the freebies from GOG.com.