Old School Games on OSX with WINE

Sploozoo

So I'm fully aware that WINE is probably not sophisticated to run newer games with any sort of reasonable performance, but you'd think it'd be able to handle some older classics just fine.

I decided to try this out yesterday after picking up a copy of "Fallout Trilogy". Loved Fallout 3, never played the originals, pumped about it. Needless to say the graphics have not aged particularly well, especially when blown up on my 37" monitor. But I have this bitchin little 13" MacBook sitting here, and I figure it'll be much more fun to play at that size. (Plus I enjoy playing RPGs lying down in bed or at airports, whatever.)

I "successfully" installed all three titles using WINE (I'm using the most current version of Leapord) and by that I mean the installer ran and I can browse to the falloutw.exe file, and run it.

The problem I'm hitting now is that it fails the anti-piracy CD check, possibly for a number of reasons, but I suspect that the "virtual" C directory where it is installed has no knowledge of the mounted DVD drive, so it thinks the disc is absent.

It may work to try and find some kind of no cd check patch and install that with WINE, but I'd rather not go that route if don't have to.

I'm well aware that I could just use bootcamp, partition and install Windows, but I'd prefer not to.

Has anyone tried anything like this, successful or not?

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thaks

Voro

I just tested a Fallout install on a drive that was previously in an old computer as the D drive and is currently mounted as K. I didn't have a cd in and it worked fine. The old Fallouts just need you to make sure the config file points to the correct directories and all of the files are there. I think there was something buggy about FO2's full install, so you may need to copy additional files manually if they don't get copied over.

Do a full install from the cd. Open fallout.cfg with a text editor. Ensure the following point to the correct directories / files (using my file paths as an example):

music_path1=K:\Games\Fallout\data\sound\music\
music_path2=K:\Games\Fallout\data\sound\music\

...

critter_dat=K:\Games\Fallout\critter.dat
critter_patches=K:\Games\Fallout\data
master_dat=K:\Games\Fallout\master.dat
master_patches=K:\Games\Fallout\data

That's all you need. Now, you might want to look up some fixes on NMA. I think those are more for FO2 than the original, but there are some issues with encounter rates and overland movement on newer systems. I haven't used WINE so I don't know if it will encounter those.

Sploozoo

Thanks for the input, will try that soon.

This is the newer 3 in 1 DVD so they may have added some must have cd BS, but we'll see.

Thanks