X-Wing Alliance

What works

So far, installation and first mission + joystick remapping.  Flawless.

Second mission complete.  Set wine resolution to 1280x960 and xwa resolution to 1152x864.  Flawless.

What does not

Workarounds

What was not tested

Will update as features are tested.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Intel
• Driver: open source

Additional Comments

2.02

Intel i7-4770, using integrated graphics

clean wine prefix, configured to Windows 7 at 800x600.

I'm using MATE Desktop environment, because I have had some weird issues using Cinnamon and I have an unverified hypothesis that they are related to Cinnamon itself.

I created .iso files of each of the CDs using dd, then mounted disc1 via "mount -o loop [path_to_iso_file] [path_to_mountpoint]".  Alternately, putting the physical disc1 into a drive that

wine can access works just as well.

Then I ran WINEPREFIX=[wineprefix_path] wine [disc1_mount_point]/install/setup.exe to start the installer.  After successful installation, I ran the patch installer.

To run the game (with disc1 .iso mounted in one of the ways described):  WINEPREFIX=[wineprefix_path] wine [wineprefix_path]/drive_c/Program\ Files/LucasArts/XWingAlliance/Alliance.EXE

I will provide additional detail as time allows, but so far this works solidly.

LAN play (multiplayer) does not work.  I am confident that this feature would not work in Windows either, however.  Research indicates that the common way to do multiplayer in XWA is with a 3rd party app "gameranger", which I've got no personal experience with.

I've got no personal experience with.