[PLUG] Lookging for wine help with gamemaker software

Alan alan at clueserver.org
Mon Jan 12 19:42:01 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 17:12, Zot O'Connor wrote:
> I am helping set a lab to teach kids software.
> 
> We are likely going to use Redhat 9.
> 
> The class calls for using the trial version of Game Maker
> (www.gamemaker.nl).  I have been unable to get it to work under
> wine[x].  Can wine savvy folks give it a try and see if it works?
> 
> Game Maker is cool program to write OO based games (programs).  It is a
> pretty effective tool apparently, and if we could get it to work, that
> would be awesome.
> 
> Either 5.x or 4.x trial versions would be fine.
> 
> If I remember, I got the program to load, but apps would not run.  I
> have not tried the last wave of wine releases.


It would not work with Crossover Office 2.1.0, but that may be because
of what I am running.  (Fedora 1 with kernel 2.6.1.) Crossover bitches
about a security patch getting in the way.

I will try the latest WineX as well.

-- 
"Push that big, big granite sphere way up there from way down here!
Gasp and sweat and pant and wheeze! Uh-oh! Feel momentum cease!
Watch it tumble down and then roll the boulder up again!"
    - The story of Sisyphus by Dr. Zeus in Frazz 12/18/2003





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