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HARPOON on LINUX - 1/10/2009 10:32:02 AM

not_a_pc

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I enjoyed HARPOON CLASSIC back when I was A PC [Win-95] era

So I have downloaded HARPOON-3-GOUGE-DEMO onto UBUNTU 8.10 into WINE 1.0.1 environment [just to see if it works]

I am asking if anyone else in forum has tried this and encountered/solved any problems

Whether I am successful or not: I will write up a report in www.winehq.org

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RE: HARPOON on LINUX - 1/10/2009 7:35:29 PM

TonyE

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well, the Harpoon: Commander's Edition demo can be convinced to run with WINE's help fwiw. There are some graphical anomolies but otherwise it seems to run half decently.

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RE: HARPOON on LINUX - 1/12/2009 11:31:35 AM

not_a_pc

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YES seems OK [so far]

I have problems with my sound [from motherboard] but this will be resolved with ALSA complient card

Mouse is very 'twitchy' - I will look at this if it becomes too annoying, I can use KEYBOARD.

I DO NOT GET [PICTURES] of units H3 freeze/crashes, but Mission Sucessful Grahic is GOOD [also 'wreckage']

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RE: HARPOON on LINUX - 1/26/2009 7:04:43 AM

not_a_pc

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I have found that:

FORMATION EDITOR --> PREFERENCES and STAFF MESSAGE 'pops-up' during set

OR

VIDEO CLIP playing [weapon/aircraft launch etc] and STAFF MESSAGE

both
==> FREEZE/CRASH big time [lucky I'ave an escape key]
will try [PAUSE game] and SET VIDEO OFF permanently

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