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Kalamaius

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Registered: 2011-07-10

Posts: 20

Wine 256 colors

Hi people I'm trying to play to Myst 1 on arch but I have problems... The first time I tried to run the game with dosbox but i fail, because it appear this error: this program requires microsoft windows... So i tried with wine, I've correctly installed Myst. But when i start the game there's an error, the application I am trying to run complains that it needs 256 colors... I've try to follow this guide http://wiki.winehq.org/256ColorMode with no result, probably because i'm not very good yet with linux OS... Someone can give my an help to run correctly Myst? Sorry for my bad english, i'm italian

doorknob60

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Registered: 2008-09-29

Posts: 403

Re: Wine 256 colors

Well, according to that guide, this should work:

First, install zephyr:

pacman -S xorg-server-xephyr

Then, start it set to 8 bit colors (256):

Xephyr :1 -ac -screen 800x600x8 &

Then, launch Myst inside the Zephyr server:

 DISPLAY=":1" wine /path/to/exe

I don't have Myst so I didn't actually try the game, but I was able to run other apps like xterm and winecfg inside of it, and it was definately 256 colors, so it should work.