


The keyboard working by typing in front of wine "XMODIFIERS=''": Wine /the/directory/where/you/installed/ta/TotalA.exe Insert the appropriate ta cd, then simply run: Interactions with other wine configurations/programs. Might consider running ta from a new wine prefix, to avoid possible You can find more details about DirectPlay on this page
#Total annihilation: the core contingency install#
You need to install the Microsoft DirectPlay dlls, which you can do by doing the following: Otherwise dplaysvr.exe will use the wine directplay dlls instead, which That the dll over-rides need to be global to your wine prefix, select 'Emulate a virtual desktop', and try putting the resolution of your screen, which, strangely, seems to work great!įollow the instructions at (integrated into winetricks) unselect 'Allow the window manager to control windows' unselect 'Allow the window manager to decorate windows' select 'Allow DirectX apps to stop mouse leaving the window' select the "TotalA.exe" application setting Virtual desktop you're going to create, and it is not always easy to this is important, because otherwise winecfg itself will run in the In the 'Applications', create a new application setting for TotalA.exe Perhaps you are running on a 800x480 screen - then you could try the Wine/ta complains that it can't find an appropriate resolution. You may find that TA runs out of the box, if so: good! Wine configuration for single player play: it will ask you for the location for where you installed TA original, so give it the location and this will work fine ( correctly detects location automatically in 1.1.27 ) The directory where you installed ta to, since this ensures that the
#Total annihilation: the core contingency Patch#
it is recommended to just copy the files across, otherwise the 1.0-3.1c patch may not install correctly CXX files from the DATA directory of the Core ContingencyĬd into the directory where you installed TA original to you can install via the installer SETUP.EXE on the cd, or by simplyĬopying the. Setup.exe, because it will complain that TA isn't installed yet (fixed in 1.1.27) the bad news is that you can't install core contingency using you can ignore this error (fixed in wine 1.1.27) at the end you will likely get an error "cannot open readme.txt" in winefile, click on the drive icon corresponding to your cd, for example it could be "D:" In winecfg, set "windows version" to "Windows 95" You're not sure which version of wine to use, use 1.1.27, otherwise youĬould try using the version of wine that comes with your distribution,Īnd then, if that doesn't seem to work, you could try 1.1.27. There is a section about multiplayer configuration Is not implemented natively within wine, but it works using the nativeĭirectplay dlls. It says in 'bugs' that multiplayer doesn't work?
