Stars!

The Advanced Interstellar Strategy Game - an old Win16 game, played in a variable-sized galaxy.

Application Details:

Version:	2.6j
License:
URL:	http://wiki.starsautohost.org/
Votes:	0
Latest Rating:	Platinum
Latest Wine Version Tested:	4.1

Maintainers: About Maintainership

David Nicholson

Test Results

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What works

After the workaround from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/783622, it runs fine. I have some issues getting it to use my serial. It takes it fine, but then every turn accuses me of being a usurper.

What does not

I haven't yet found a convenient workaround for the serial # problem. It appears that Stars! has a strange copy protection scheme and it thinks that the hardware is changing constantly when run with through Wine. More info at http://wiki.starsautohost.org/wiki/Copy_Protection_Features . Also, it doesn't work out of the box on Ubuntu Natty, but that's due to Ubuntu bugs.

Workarounds

What was not tested

A lot of the game. I'm trying to sort out the copy protection issues first.

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

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	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Linux Mint 18.3 "Sylvia" x86_64	May 04 2019	4.1	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	David Nicholson
Show	Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Aug 24 2011	1.3.26	Yes	Yes	No	Gold	David Nicholson
Current	Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Aug 17 2011	1.3.26	N/A	Yes	No	Silver	Sean
Show	Mandriva 2010.1 x86_64	Nov 19 2010	1.3.7	N/A	Yes	No	Platinum	Giovanni Mariani
Show	Mandriva 2008	Feb 21 2008	0.9.55.	N/A	Yes	No	Platinum	an anonymous user

Known Bugs

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Comments

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Ubuntu Natty Bug
by Sean on Wednesday August 17th 2011, 10:10

fontconfig is broken in Natty. See bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/783622 for workarounds.

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Full program download
by Giovanni Mariani on Friday November 19th 2010, 8:30

The program is abandoware, so you can find it on Abandonia:
www.abandonia.com/en/games/27002/Stars!.html

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Demo download site
by Dan Kegel on Sunday August 22nd 2010, 18:54

There seems to be a demo available at
starsautohost.org/kn2050.htm

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Can't create new game
by Luke Swanson on Saturday April 10th 2010, 22:34

I was able to install the game and start it, and it opens up the title screen, but when I select "new game" an alert pops up telling me that WineVDM.exe has experienced a problem and needs to close, and I am stuck without my game. Is there a fix for this?

P.S. I am running mac OSX

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RE: Can't create new game
by Luke Swanson on Monday May 10th 2010, 22:18

Never mind, I have 2.6j, not 2.6i, and wine 1.1.42 fixed the problem. Thank you Wine programmers!

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