Wine Reviews
| Battlefield 1942 on Linux with Wine |
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| Written by Tom Wickline |
| Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:44 |
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Wine Reviews
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Battlefield 1942 is a 3D World War II first-person shooter (FPS) computer game developed by Digital Illusions CE and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows (2002) and Apple Macintosh (2004). The game can be played in singleplayer mode against computer game bots or in multiplayer mode against players on the Internet. In-game, players assume the role of one of five classes of infantry: Sniper, Assault, Anti-Tank, Medic, and Engineer. Players also have the ability to fly various World War II fighter aircraft and bombers, navigate capital ships and aircraft carriers, man coastal artillery defenses, drive tanks, APCs and jeeps, and take control of anti-aircraft guns and mounted machine guns. Each battle takes place on one of several maps located in a variety of places and famous battlefields in all of the major theaters of World War II: the Pacific, European, North African, and Eastern Fronts. Combat is always fought between the Axis Powers and the Allies. The location determines which nation-specific armies are used (for example, on the Iwo Jima map, it is Japan versus the United States, while on the Battle of Britain map, it is Germany versus the United Kingdom). The maps in Battlefield 1942 are based on real battles and are somewhat realistically portrayed. Wine configuration This is with a configuration directory after DirectX was installed and running in a 1024x768 virtual desktop. $ winecfg Once the .wine directory is built the configuration tool will start and you can set a virtual desktop in the graphics tab if you wish. This is a good time to also set your Audio driver in the Audio tab. Installing Battlefield 1942 Mount the install CD and then run Setup.exe from the mount point but don't (cd) to its location... tom@tuxonfire ~ $ wine /mnt/cdrom/Setup.exe err:ole:marshal_object object doesn't expose interface {be6115a1-7de5-48dc-ad2a-25060e00fce2}, failing with error 0x80004002 err:rpc:I_RpcReceive we got fault packet with status 0x80004002 After the first CD is installed open another terminal and eject the first CD. tom@tuxonfire ~ $ wine eject Insert the second CD and proceed with the install.   Battlefield 1942 first run Battlefield 1942 intro movie:  Battlefield 1942 in Wine:    
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