17 Aug 2005

Sid Meier’s Pirates with WINE

Posted by Jacob Emcken

A few days ago i tried to make Sid Meiers Pirates run again with WINE.

As usual when trying to install the game I got the following:

Well that didn’t stop me this time. I started to copy Pirates from my Windows XP partition to my fake WINE Windows drive (notice the cool new GNOME 2.12 copy dialog.

Now I tried to start Pirates again but this time I got a message about missing 2 dll files:

  • msvcp71.dll
  • msvcr71.dll

You can find them by searching on Google

I copied the files to my fake Windows’ system folder ie. /home/je/c/windows/system.

Finally I applied a No-CD-patch and was now able to start the game, where I was greeted by a… black screen for a long time.

I’m serious…. a VERY long time.

I’m telling you – it’s still there ;)

Then finally I was presented with the title menu. YEAH!

I think I fiddled a little with some settings before I dared try starting the game. Now a long waiting time again. But you don’t wanna go fetch coffe because you want to see this ;)

Woah, I see an ingame movie… cool. I was so quickly taking the screenshot, that the menu didn’t get time to disappear. They call my Lucky Luke ;-)

I’m actaully able to choose with whom I want to got to the new world. The grey man was a little to creepy so England it was.

Long wait time…. again, and no movie of me fighting the captain – perhaps I accidentally hit a key, dunno. Well suddenly I saw a little ship sailing and joy filled my body – YES!… and before I knew it the game had crashed. :-( Perhaps tweaking with the video setting and stuff might make the game somewhat playable :-)

The few screenshots I created was worth it all. See you on the other side.

Category: Games, Linux, Ubuntu

8 Comments to Sid Meier’s Pirates with WINE

Juan
November 27, 2005

whoohoo, another Netbeans user :) Congrats on getting Pirates working in ubuntu!!

tim
May 5, 2006

it’s seem that you had some problems well i got a problem as well. I lost my cd key of the game and i can’t find another one can i mayby give it a try with your cd key you could help me a lot thx The W

almalaci
November 16, 2006

I have failed to run this great game in ubuntu edgy eft. Could you provide me with some details about how you managed? I only get to the ’splash screen’ screen before the title menu when the game hangs.. Thanks,

Laszlo Almasi

braden nixon
June 16, 2007

u are my only hope

Jacob Emcken
July 14, 2007

Guys…. I havn’t tried running the game myself for a long time and didn’t get any closer than I was back then. But for you who keep trying I think this link to Wines application database is worth following. Good luck :D

Jacob
July 19, 2007

Tim…. Use this: http://www.serialz.to/Sid+meiers+pirates!.htm

I believe that the consumer doesnt have to buy another $50 game just to get the serial code when he already bought one and lost the cd key. Asking customer support at ataris website replies that you should buy another version because they dont supply ANY CD KEYS TO CUSTOMERS. This gets them more money by buying another version. I hate companys like this, They are all the same.

Khoi Nguyen
June 2, 2008

Interesting, I also try to make another game to work with WINE under Ubuntu, the game (HyOnline) installed, can run, but the mouse cursor not appear in-game.

DId you got any problem like that? If yes, please tell me how to solve it

Thanks

Nice Dude
June 11, 2009

Dang, I have been searching the internet high and low for someone who talks about ubuntu in plain english instead of tech forums.

Also, I would like to add a comment before brandon nixon’s comment

“help me obi wan kenobi”

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