Posted May 17, 2017
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I've put together Wine wrappers for Freedom Force and Freedom Force vs the 3rd Reich, allowing them to be played on Linux almost like native games & with no Wine knowledge required.
Simply run the build script to create the wrapper. If the installer files are not alongside the wrapper build files then the path to them will need to be specified either by passing it as an argument to the build script with -respath="<path>" or by setting an environment variable named WINEWRAP_RESPATH containing it. You can change the path to build the wrapper in and the name of the wrapper directory with the -buildpath= and -dirname= arguments. The build path can also be set with the WINEWRAP_BUILDPATH environment variable.
The output will be a directory containing the game set up within a preconfigured Wine prefix, along with its own copy of Wine, extracted game icons, documentation, and start script(s). From there simply run the start script to play. The start script also includes options for creating a shortcut, configuring the wrapper etc.
(to uninstall simply delete the game directory and any shortcuts you created, and the game's user data directory in ~/.local/share if you don't want to keep your saves & settings)
User saves are stored under ~/.local/share/fforce and ~/.local/share/fforcevt3r respectively
Full details are in the readme.txt and release notes. Here are the download links:
fforce_wine.tar.xz
(41.9 kB, SHA256: ed50f18e8af81be36a283d2a6f4b5abe83f15819b6224ac447a968ce0bbac747)
fforcevt3r_wine.tar.xz
(42.1 kB, SHA256: c8cb75144876ff8de92c16a07f2c0adcc6ff4e346580e71386253ae4ab2725d5)
Last updated 2021/07/11
The wrappers use Wine 6.0. Wine and Winetricks will be downloaded automatically if not present; to avoid redownloading for other scripts the downloaded Wine package will be stored in ~/.cache/winewrap
If anyone runs into any problems then post in this thread, Adamhm's Linux Wine Wrappers - News, FAQ & Discussion and/or The "Judas™ does this run in Wine" thread v1.173.
The only issues that I've seen are that some text might look a bit messy (it's still easily readable though) and Wine sometimes displays a crash dialogue on exit after playing Freedom Force. Multiplayer has not been tested and may or may not work.
For more of my Linux Wine wrappers check out post 3 in this thread: Adamhm's Linux Wine Wrappers - News, FAQ & Discussion
Simply run the build script to create the wrapper. If the installer files are not alongside the wrapper build files then the path to them will need to be specified either by passing it as an argument to the build script with -respath="<path>" or by setting an environment variable named WINEWRAP_RESPATH containing it. You can change the path to build the wrapper in and the name of the wrapper directory with the -buildpath= and -dirname= arguments. The build path can also be set with the WINEWRAP_BUILDPATH environment variable.
The output will be a directory containing the game set up within a preconfigured Wine prefix, along with its own copy of Wine, extracted game icons, documentation, and start script(s). From there simply run the start script to play. The start script also includes options for creating a shortcut, configuring the wrapper etc.
(to uninstall simply delete the game directory and any shortcuts you created, and the game's user data directory in ~/.local/share if you don't want to keep your saves & settings)
User saves are stored under ~/.local/share/fforce and ~/.local/share/fforcevt3r respectively
Full details are in the readme.txt and release notes. Here are the download links:
fforce_wine.tar.xz
(41.9 kB, SHA256: ed50f18e8af81be36a283d2a6f4b5abe83f15819b6224ac447a968ce0bbac747)
fforcevt3r_wine.tar.xz
(42.1 kB, SHA256: c8cb75144876ff8de92c16a07f2c0adcc6ff4e346580e71386253ae4ab2725d5)
Last updated 2021/07/11
The wrappers use Wine 6.0. Wine and Winetricks will be downloaded automatically if not present; to avoid redownloading for other scripts the downloaded Wine package will be stored in ~/.cache/winewrap
If anyone runs into any problems then post in this thread, Adamhm's Linux Wine Wrappers - News, FAQ & Discussion and/or The "Judas™ does this run in Wine" thread v1.173.
The only issues that I've seen are that some text might look a bit messy (it's still easily readable though) and Wine sometimes displays a crash dialogue on exit after playing Freedom Force. Multiplayer has not been tested and may or may not work.
For more of my Linux Wine wrappers check out post 3 in this thread: Adamhm's Linux Wine Wrappers - News, FAQ & Discussion
Post edited July 11, 2021 by adamhm