http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36109
Ken Thomases ken@codeweavers.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC|ken@codeweavers.com | Component|-unknown |directx-dplay
--- Comment #1 from Ken Thomases ken@codeweavers.com --- This looks like an issue with built-in DirectPlay (dplay). It will probably be worked around by installing native DirectPlay (e.g. "winetricks directplay").
It's basically just random happenstance as to whether built-in dplay works for a given build of Wine and/or Windows app. It's not really Mac-specific. Built-in dplay requires that a particular range of the address space be available for it to use, but there's no guarantee that the game itself or any other DLL won't use that range.