Collegues

Thanks Patrick for a great distro ...again.

This posting is off topic but I hope it is of interest to many.

Bought a copy of Myst Masterpiece Edition on cdrom out of a
bargain bin. Obviously it is for PC not Linux.

The last game that I ever played on a Microsoft OS was RealMyst
(a 3D version of Myst) and I loved it. I finally gave Microsoft
(win98) the flick due to its constant crashing. RealMyst is
not compatible with wine on Linux or so I have read on the
net. I stumbled across the copy of Myst today and would love
to get it up and running.

I am not a gamer but funnily enough the only thing that I
missed when I initially made the move to Linux was Myst ...I
never finished it.

Running Slack10 and installed wine from a gentoo CD that was
on the front of a recent magazine that I bought.

I have 'installed' Myst successfully but when I try to run it
using wine, a dialog box Windows 95-98 style pops up to tell
me that the disc in my drive is not the Myst disc.

I have googled and have found scant information.

Any tips please.

Many thanks.

Hello,

i had the same problem with morrowind, so i looked for (and found it)
a no cd patch and it works fine now

else you can try to modify the rights for your cd rom drive

in /etcdev change the rights for cdrom and hdc (or sr0 it depends)
and change the rights too for /mnt/cdrom

hope it will help you

Message posted via:
=====================
www.linuxpackages.net/forum
www.linuxpackages.net
Expanding the world of Slackware
=====================

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:38:03 +0000, klang wrote:


> Thanks Patrick for a great distro ...again.

Let's hope he gets well soon!

> I have 'installed' Myst successfully but when I try to run it
> using wine, a dialog box Windows 95-98 style pops up to tell
> me that the disc in my drive is not the Myst disc.

Not sure this is of any help, but on Neverwinter Nights we have to change
a line in one of the .ini files to point to /dev/cdrom in case we didn't
do a full install. The game runs on native linux/opengl though. Maybe wine
or the game itself needs something to point the cdrom to /dev/cdrom? I'm
not familiar with running things with wine.

Hope this helps you in any way.

Cheers!


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFBo0FYw8vk3s0hDkURArAPAJ46OveUKhKLsLC+CXXko7 MXonNS4QCgrgEx
TRpptiNpGZLez8JIbysMhfM=
=KRzm
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

klang <klang@darkstar.com> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.11.23.20.38.02.458814@darkstar.com> ...
>
> I have 'installed' Myst successfully but when I try to run it
> using wine, a dialog box Windows 95-98 style pops up to tell
> me that the disc in my drive is not the Myst disc.
>
copy-protection can not find the cd
this is a comman error in wine.i heard that
some wine hacks are there to help this but
i am not really hopeful about it
wine needs to change its cdrom read system
no cd patch will solve the problem

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:38:03 +0000, klang wrote:

> Thanks Patrick for a great distro ...again. This posting is off topic but
> I hope it is of interest to many. Bought a copy of Myst Masterpiece
> Edition on cdrom out of a bargain bin. Obviously it is for PC not Linux.
> The last game that I ever played on a Microsoft OS was RealMyst (a 3D
> version of Myst) and I loved it. I finally gave Microsoft (win98) the
> flick due to its constant crashing. RealMyst is not compatible with wine
> on Linux or so I have read on the net. I stumbled across the copy of
> Myst today and would love to get it up and running. I am not a gamer but
> funnily enough the only thing that I missed when I initially made the
> move to Linux was Myst ...I never finished it. Running Slack10 and
> installed wine from a gentoo CD that was on the front of a recent
> magazine that I bought. I have 'installed' Myst successfully but when I
> try to run it using wine, a dialog box Windows 95-98 style pops up to
> tell me that the disc in my drive is not the Myst disc. I have googled
> and have found scant information.

you dont run games in wine. use its derivate, cedega. 5$ but cvs is free.
and ed2k is also "kinda" free.
+use nocd crack.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Mad-Eye Moody <zhillaREMOVEBRA@spymac.com> trolled:

> you dont run games in wine. use its derivate, cedega. 5$ but cvs
> is free. and ed2k is also "kinda" free. +use nocd crack.

Nonsense. It's a lot easier, and a lot better, just to create a
win98 partition from which to run your games.

Only a total imbecile would use linux as a gaming platform.

cordially, as always,

rm

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGP 6.5.8

iQA/AwUBQaPEbuEckfDWS6x8EQJ8UQCfcKXM3+e8A0v6B1v158zXJf NBONgAn3lr
9yoJ0MFo5GIalx1Ladg3pGEx
=urPP
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:14:54 +0000, Realto Margarino wrote:

> Nonsense. It's a lot easier, and a lot better, just to create a
> win98 partition from which to run your games.
>
> Only a total imbecile would use linux as a gaming platform.
>

So you're saying those folks over at ID Software are complete imbecile's
for making their games software run on the linux platform?
Not everyone wants to reboot just to run a game now & again.

Paul Mc

Run a game rarely need to reboot. Even few years ago..

"Paul Mc" <tuxx@r0ck.com> wrote in message
newsan.2004.11.23.23.59.21.727561@r0ck.com...
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:14:54 +0000, Realto Margarino wrote:
>
> > Nonsense. It's a lot easier, and a lot better, just to create a
> > win98 partition from which to run your games.
> >
> > Only a total imbecile would use linux as a gaming platform.
> >
>
> So you're saying those folks over at ID Software are complete imbecile's
> for making their games software run on the linux platform?
> Not everyone wants to reboot just to run a game now & again.
>
> Paul Mc

CL wrote:

> Run a game rarely need to reboot. Even few years ago..

Please don't top post.
Trim your quotes to what is essential.
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html
--
Two Ravens
"...hit the squirrel..."