Hi, I recently tried to run the MS-Windows WWII strategy game "Hearts of Iron" using Wine on Linux. And it *very nearly* works. If any wine developer is interested in trying to resolve the last issues, I would be happy to work with them on this. In fact, "Hearts of Iron" runs perfectly. I gave it a 5-hour "stress test" ;-) and did not experience a single problem. There are some minor problems on startup, but there are reasonable workarounds for those. The sole remaining problem is that saved games cannot be loaded. Unfortunately, this is a show-stopper as a game of HoI typically takes several days to play! When loading a saved game, a message that (from memory) is roughly: "Exception in thread 0009: starting wine debugger" is displayed, then a "usage" message about the wine debugger, then nothing happens. No debugger prompt, etc. I tried both the latest Debian Wine package, and compiled from the latest CVS sources (as of 13 Aug 2004), but the behaviour was identical. I'm an experienced c/c++/etc developer on unix, but know very little about windows programming. I'm certainly able to get some stack traces, etc. on this issue if anyone is interested and can give me some basic hints. Info on the game can be found here: http://www.heartsofiron-game.com/ Cheers, Simon PS: Congrats to the Wine team. I was most impressed how well HoI ran on wine. _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
