I got this working
by Shawn on Tuesday November 9th 2010, 3:29
Hi, a little late but I got this to work though PlayonLinux, and by pulling out my hair.
Get PlayonLinux, and when it is updated and set up, open it and click install, then Internet, and install Internet explorer6.
After Internet explorer 6 is done installing click install, look to the bottom where it says install an unsupported package or a .pol, click it, then click manual install, click forward, select edit an existing application, choose Internet explorer 6, click forward, and then browse to installer file for Fate and select it.
This install works on Ubuntu 10.04 lts, with wine 1.3.6 and PlayonLinux 3.8.6. You need the installer from their website and a "patched"(cracked) fate.exe file that i cant tell you where to get it but just search it out. One issue so far is that in your inventory you can't see the items, they are blurred but if you mouse over them it tells you what they are. I am sure this is a setting, or dll or something easy fixable, I just haven't found it, it seems all else works though and you can see the items on you.
Fate with Wild Tangents installer
by Chris on Monday September 7th 2009, 22:35
Since the installer i got my hands on is rather hard to come by, and it seems even the later retail CDs use the WT/Game Console installer take a look at my test results for Fate: Undiscovered Realms
appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=13042
Since both games are more or less identical the same process should work for this version of Fate.
in fact there's a good chance it will work for any of WTs other games as well.