Some time back I had installed wine to help me run some windows exe. At that point of time I had downloaded a game (exe, what else) which Kush much enjoys playing online. Unfortunately it never ran using wine giving some errors but for most of the part remaining silent, very silent. And I became busy with making Mediclik run on my Mac. Mediclik runs well using Safari or Firefox, but calendar widget never worked. So, I went around scrounging for a tool which would help me install IE. I found one. It is called ie4osx and when I tried installing it it demanded Darwine. So even when I had Wine, I installed Darwine and ie4osx installed IE6 on my Mac. Using this IE6, I was able to run Mediclik and test the calendar widget (worked very well). Thanks to ie4osx team !!!!
With the Darwine came the WineHelper which supposedly ran the windows exe. And I remembered the half done job of making game.exe run on mac. So the fun began.
Test with Darwine. Gave error that some library can't be loaded, Flash can't be loaded. I installed a Flash10b.ocx using Winetricks, but still the same problem.
I used Wine and well we moved on to one more step. I could see the game window, but the game won't launch.
I kept searching over the net, but drew a blank. At this point of time I almost gave up.
Just to test if the setup is all right, I installed another game and tried running it with Wine. It did. But Darwine gave problem again. But anyways, at least I can run some game. I had read a refrain repeatedly on the net that there are some games or apps which won't run with Wine or Darwine. So maybe the first game falls in that category.
Maybe if I get some time, I will see if I can make Darwine run the first game. The errors are understandable there :-) I never said solvable, did I :-)
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