A wine success story

[Dan Kegel]

I admit, I cruise new blog posts just to see what people are writing about Wine.

Today I saw one  ( http://www.ubuntux.org/shockwave-player-ubuntu-linux )
that says
"I have discovered a way to get Shockwave working under Linux.
I am using Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake), Wine 0.99.22, Firefox 1.5.0.7,
and Shockwave 10.1.4.020.

1. Install Wine.  ...  Wine will automatically associate .exe files
with itself.
More information on Wine is available at http://www.winehq.com .
   2. Download the Windows version of Firefox and install.  Wine will
ensure the installer functions correctly.
   3. Install the Windows version of Shockwave for Mozilla.  I
downloaded and installed it manually (slim install).

After these steps, I had a working Shockwave player from within Firefox. "

Now that's the kind of user story I like to see!
- Dan

[Dan Kegel]

On 10/5/06, Dan Kegel  wrote:
> Today I saw one  ( http://www.ubuntux.org/shockwave-player-ubuntu-linux )
> that says
> "I have discovered a way to get Shockwave working under Linux.
> I am using Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake), Wine 0.99.22, Firefox 1.5.0.7,
> and Shockwave 10.1.4.020.

...

And another one, in French, for Flash 9 instead of shockwave:
http://devil505.blogspot.com/2006/10/en-attendant-flash-9-pour-linux.html

It's nice to see that people find Wine easy enough to
use to load stacks like Firefox+Shockwave and Firefox+Flash.
- Dan

[Martin Owens]

I wonder if we can get the shockwave player working with the linux
version of linux via some kind of wine layer instead of installing
firefox for windows.

On 10/5/06, Dan Kegel  wrote:
> I admit, I cruise new blog posts just to see what people are writing about Wine.
>
> Today I saw one  ( http://www.ubuntux.org/shockwave-player-ubuntu-linux )
> that says
> "I have discovered a way to get Shockwave working under Linux.
> I am using Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake), Wine 0.99.22, Firefox 1.5.0.7,
> and Shockwave 10.1.4.020.
> - Install Wine.  ...  Wine will automatically associate .exe files
>
> with itself.
> More information on Wine is available at http://www.winehq.com .
>    2. Download the Windows version of Firefox and install.  Wine will
> ensure the installer functions correctly.
>    3. Install the Windows version of Shockwave for Mozilla.  I
> downloaded and installed it manually (slim install).
>
> After these steps, I had a working Shockwave player from within Firefox. "
>
> Now that's the kind of user story I like to see!
> - Dan

[Tim Schmidt]

On 10/5/06, Martin Owens  wrote:
> I wonder if we can get the shockwave player working with the linux
> version of linux via some kind of wine layer instead of installing
> firefox for windows.

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/

If you'd like to duplicate effort...  nspluginwrapper
(http://www.gibix.net/projects/nspluginwrapper/) might be a good place
to start.

--tim

[EA Durbin]

Are there any windows based dvd players that will work under wine?

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am Freitag 06 Oktober 2006 03:39 schrieb EA Durbin:
> Are there any windows based dvd players that will work under wine?

I was working on ddraw overlays the last 2 days which would help getting them 
working, but I have to pause my efforts until the wined3d->wgl move is done.

[Jan Zerebecki]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 07:50:34PM -0400, Tim Schmidt wrote:
> On 10/5/06, Martin Owens  wrote:
> > I wonder if we can get the shockwave player working with the linux
> > version of linux via some kind of wine layer instead of installing
> > firefox for windows.
>
> http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/
>
> If you'd like to duplicate effort...  nspluginwrapper
> (http://www.gibix.net/projects/nspluginwrapper/) might be a good place
> to start.

Some time ago I was told about
http://www.konqueror.org/announcements/reaktivate.php , it's
supposed to do exactly what you want, but I never tested it.
Perhaps some one should dust it off and get it into wine...

http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdenonbeta/reaktivate/

Jan

[Molle Bestefich]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> Today I saw one that says
> "I have discovered a way to get Shockwave working under Linux.

Funny, I did the same thing at one point.
Worked well but was slow.

I ended up using Shockwave in a VMware session because it was just
infinitely faster than using Shockwave by means of Wine.

I think I was playing the game at www.isketch.net.  It was unplayable
with Wine, but worked fine (= fast) in VMware.  Wonder why.

[Martin Owens]

It might be an idea to look into it, start ie or what ever your using
with debug flags and see whats happening. there might be an error
which doesn't kill wine but slows it down in an important way.

On 12/18/06, Molle Bestefich  wrote:
> Dan Kegel wrote:
> > Today I saw one that says
> > "I have discovered a way to get Shockwave working under Linux.
>
> Funny, I did the same thing at one point.
> Worked well but was slow.
>
> I ended up using Shockwave in a VMware session because it was just
> infinitely faster than using Shockwave by means of Wine.
>
> I think I was playing the game at www.isketch.net.  It was unplayable
> with Wine, but worked fine (= fast) in VMware.  Wonder why.