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[Javaguy]

ok, I have some more linux questions for all of you slightly exasperated people out there.
Im making a new topic as these questions are about software/compatibility- not getting it installed

well I have debian 3.1r1 on my computer now, and I have learned a reasonable amount.. installing packages, playing games.. the included ones and a couple of admittedly fairly lame ones I installed (lincity for example, i hear theres a new version around- lincity-N or something)

well I have been trying to play transport tycoon deluxe. my #1 fav game my brother is addicted to it as well. I use (on this windows comp) the patched abandonia windows version... but whenever I put the file on a cd-rw and try and mount it it says it cannot be mounted as its posisbly not in the right format :crazy:
so i got the DOS version, and dosbox for linux (good ol' debian cds)
the only problem is, and its quite a big one: dosbox runs INSANLEY slowly. you put the CPU cycles above 20k and its about 1 fps... is linux just slooooow at games?? SLOW AT 1995 GAMES?!
I think it may be beacuse the desktop is being drawn behind the DOS box window, its a long, long shot but I dont like having windowed dosbox anyway.. off I go to change the .conf file.. except I cant find it- can someone tell me where it is?

another thing: wine. a version came on cd (some alpha version). I installed it and it works with the gangsters: organised crime setup just superly. the installation whizzes by and I install directx 6 . I find gangsters in the applications menu under the section "." (why?) and run. the wine thing comes up and at first it said insert the cd but I changed the wine conf file with its configuration option for drive d to be /home/cdrom0 or whatever. now it says its exited with an error and in the log it says it cannot find c:\hothouse creations\gangsters\gangsters.EXE.
I cant find the directory where wine installs all this fake stuff so I am at a loss!
anyone help? the website said it worked..

is it possible to work WoW on linux??? :w00t: i do freecraft (clone of WoW 2) but its lacking a bit

so my questions on compatibility and things
its not reeeallly about just DOS games so I wont put it in the compatibility section but do, do move it

oh and I still cant change Hard drive permissions :angry:

1 more thing:
when do you guys think packages.debian.org will be fixed