POD works fairly well in Linux, introduction, sounds, music, high resolution, custom content... you name it. But you need a fairly long setup.


Links:
PodHacks
http://svn.nicode.net/podhacks/bin/PodHacks.exe

nglide
http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide

cdpatcher.zip (only if you want to use extra content)
http://www.thebasingers.com/0706milbs/pod/cdpatcher2.zip

extra content (my favorite track is Fallen)
http://www.thebasingers.com/0706milbs/pod/



Instructions:
Install POD in a clean wineprefix, I assume you installed in c:\POD .
I usually use this environment (after setting WINEPREFIX)
XDG_DATA_HOME="$WINEPREFIX"/env
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="mscoree,mshtml="
WINEARCH="win32"

Add the indeo drivers reference to windows/system.ini,
Open the system.ini file with your favorite editor and under the [drivers32] section add this line:
vidc.IV41=ir41_32.dll

In the POD directory, decode the mp3 file to wav
$ lame --decode Track02.mp3
$ rm Track02.mp3

Copy PodHacks.exe in the POD installation directory and install it:
$ cd "$WINEPREFIX"/drive_c/POD
$ wine PodHacks.exe --install

Install the nGlide wrapper and configure it.
$ wine nGlide100_setup.exe

You might want to: set Screen Resolution; Aspect ratio (4:3); and disable the splash screen. If you want to play in a window, use wine virtual desktop of the desired size and set the resolution at the same size .
$ cd "$WINEPREFIX"/drive_c
$ wine ./windows/system32/nglide_config.exe

Remove the GOG glide wrapper
$ rm "$WINEPREFIX"/drive_c/POD/glide2x.dll



If you want to use custom content you also need some other steps.
When you download content be sure that it is a 3dfx version!
Doing this steps also easily allows the play the tracks backward.

Set the windows version to win98, use winecfg or winetricks
$ winetricks win98

Unpack cdpatcher in the POD directory and create the directories for the new content
$ unzip cdpatcher2.zip -d "$WINEPREFIX"/drive_c/POD/cdpatcher2
$ cd "$WINEPREFIX"/drive_c/POD/cdpatcher2
$ mkdir Circuits
$ mkdir Voitures

Create an ini file to let cdpatcher to find the installation directory
$ cd "$WINEPREFIX"/drive_c
$ mkdir windows/UbiSoft
$ echo -ne '[POD2_0]\r\nDirectory=C:\\POD\\\r\n' >windows/UbiSoft/ubi.ini

Unpack your new tracks in Circuits and your new cars in Voitures and enjoy.

There are some winetricks verbs to install the GOG release into a prefix, switch between full-screen and virtual desktop, and to install and setup the POD Data Patcher (includes the official tracks and vehicles). Feel free to contribute fixes and/or enhancements.

http://svn.nicode.net/podhacks/bin/winetricks/

POD is not working "perfectly" in Linux (and on Windows if Glide is emulated with D3D). I'm working on PodHacks 4.0 to fix the multi-threading issues with D3D.

I am sure you know what are you talking about so I fixed the first post, but I noticed no problems.

I updated the winetricks verb for the current setup (2.0.0.19).