Sorry if this has been posted before, btu i searched and i did not find aything. I have been able to run JKDF2 through wine, but it will not allow me to play online. When i click multiplayer, then host game, there is nothing to select. Usually TCP/IP, Direct Play, etc, shows up. Just curious if anyone has got it to work and how. I read that some of you have macbooks when the steam for mac thread was posted.

Hi! New faces are always (1) surprising and (2) welcome

It takes so much effort to get JK running on Windows these days that I've never even considered trying on my MacBook Pro. If I were to, I'd just run it through XP via Boot Camp.

Just play a newer, better game instead.

That too.

Also Antony, love your user title.

I have JK & MotS playing nicely on my iMac via a Windows 7 Boot Camp partition. It's a bit of a hassle to get it to work though. Also, VirtualBox (it's free) works just fine w/ both games as well (make sure that you check the 3D option in VirtualBox when you're installing the OS). I haven't attempted to get it running using Wine so I can't help you there.

Seems to be a known issue:

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=9348

The recommended workaround seems to be to download the DirectPlay DLLs and skip the wine emulation of DirectPlay entirely.


http://wiki.winehq.org/DirectPlayGames

There appears to be a bug opened on the general lack of DirectPlay support in wine: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4066