Try again at a later time, it seems. On Ubuntu Hardy Heron, I am running WINE 0.9.59. I have previously mentioned that Caleb has really enjoyed the old Codemasters game Operation Flashpont: Cold War Crisis. I previously had tried to install it on Linux under WINE, on a lark, not really expecting much from it. I got what I expected. The game didn’t work past the splash screen. In fact, it locked up the GUI and I had to drop to a console and kill the game.
Apparently, that time is now gone. It plays as if it is on Windows. So, now Caleb has one more OS option if he wants to play the game. Now if I could only get a CD crack so that I wouldn’t have to put the CD in the drive to play, it would be nearly perfect.
By the way, since I was playing with WINE anyways, I installed Adobe Photoshop CS2 to see how it would work out. And, after opening up my exported registry key with registration information on it in Gedit and re-saving it in UTF8, I was able to import it to WINE’s “registry” and it worked like a charm. It was just as slow and confusing as it was on Windows. The only exception is that it looks better on Windows, as it’s not sporting the WINE’s Win95-esque gray. Perhaps I’ll see what the fuss is about. Now, what do I do about Tomb Raider Gold?
