http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17403
--- Comment #16 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net 2012-12-13 12:06:27 CST --- (In reply to comment #15)
It just came to my mind that the behavioural change might also be caused by a difference in my wine setup (well, this is a totally different machine than back then, but anyway): I am now using PulseAudio, and the winepulse driver from http://repo.or.cz/w/wine/multimedia.git (without these, sound is mostly broken, not only in Uru but also in other games).
I downloaded the demo from http://www.fileplanet.com/133011/130000/fileinfo/Uru:-Ages-Beyond-MYST-Demo (neither of the two links mentioned above worked for me). I am not using winepulse, and the demo does not crash for me when it tries to play a sound effect.