programs that work good with speakup

Alex Snow alex_snow at gmx.net
Fri Feb 22 10:03:17 EST 2008


How did you configure wine? all the docs I have found for recent 
versions say to use winecfg, which isn't a gtk2 app
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 
at 06:35:24PM -0500, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
> ???I actually am trying to get an audio game to run in wine with gnome...
> 
> I actually got all the Kitchens Inc games working with wine/gnome. They
> work with wine 0.54 and 0.55. And I don't know if it's a hardy thing or
> not, since I didn't start using wine until recently because I didn't
> think it worked as well as it actually does, but installing the Kitchens
> Inc menu into wine gives you an entry you can access from your
> applications menu. Applications/Wine/programs/Kitchens Inc/Kitchens Inc
> Games. Very nice indeed. Now if only I could get the lighttech games
> working. I get some kind of nasty page fault whenever I try to run the
> installers. And I think the hardest part is guessing at the installer,
> since orca doesn't speak Windows apps running via wine and I can't get
> NVDA running at all to speak them. So running the installers tends to be
> guesswork.
> 
> Mail me off list with the game you are trying to get working and I will
> see if I can make any useful suggestions, since I too like to play
> games, but I don't like to be tied to Windows and the Windows laptop I
> kept lying around is now only good for what little parts can actually be
> swapped out if any.
> 
> Live long and prosper,
> Lorenzo
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