Includes special abilities like shields, hyperspace, disrupter
(pushes objects away), and cloak. It supports multiplayer up to 4
players locally or 2 players through network.
This version released in 1996.
Old test results
The test results for this version are very old, and as such they may not represent the current state of Wine. Please consider submitting a new test report.
Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)
What works
After doing the libfontconfig workaround described in Additional Comments, it runs and is "playable".
What does not
MIDI music does not play. The terminal output provided below contains some information that appears directly related to this problem.
All object textures are completely black, possibly not even loaded. This includes the player craft, asteroids, flying saucers, bullets, explosions, most of the special ability effects, and text overlays. The spawn/hyperspace effect, background, lives indicator, and GUI are just about the only things that appear with normal or mostly normal textures. The background can be edited or replaced to make the objects more visible and easier to play, but that's obviously not a desirable workaround.
The background shows in 16 colors (or close to it) when it should be 256 colors.
What was not tested
Network play
Joystick
Additional Comments
Natty has a regression in libfontconfig which causes some applications to crash at launch in Wine. The 32-bit lib needs to be replaced with the Maverick version.
Maverick package: http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/libs/libfontconfig1
More info (where I found the solution): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1752736
I've also noticed that the sounds will cut out shortly after they start playing or they are delayed (seems to be waiting for another sound to stop). This is probably related to the number of audio channels as indicated in the terminal output.
After replacing libfontconfig and installing on a clean prefix, I ran it in terminal and played for about a minute and exited. Here's the output:
$ wine ./COMET.EXE
fixme:toolhelp:InterruptRegister16 (0000, 0x11cf00ba), stub.
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 32 channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 16 channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 32 channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 16 channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:mci:MCI_SysInfo Don't know how to get # of MCI devices of a given type
fixme:bitblt:client_side_dib_copy potential optimization: client-side color-index mode DIB copy
err:alsa:ALSA_CheckSetVolume Could not find '{PCM,Line} Playback Volume' element
fixme:mcimidi:MIDI_mciPlay NIY: MIDI port=0, track=0
fixme:mcimidi:MIDI_mciPlay NIY: MIDI port=0, track=1
fixme:mcimidi:MIDI_mciPlay NIY: MIDI port=0, track=2
fixme:mcimidi:MIDI_mciPlay NIY: MIDI port=0, track=3
fixme:mcimidi:MIDI_mciPlay NIY: MIDI port=0, track=4
fixme:mcimidi:MIDI_mciPlay NIY: MIDI port=0, track=5
fixme:mcimidi:MIDI_mciPlay NIY: MIDI port=0, track=6
fixme:mcimidi:MIDI_mciPlay NIY: MIDI port=0, track=7
fixme:mcimidi:MIDI_mciPlay NIY: MIDI port=0, track=8
fixme:toolhelp:InterruptUnRegister16 (0000), stub.
