Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands

Hi,

I applied the patch related to bug 1347
bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=13834

But it doesn't change anything. The screen is still not redrawn properly.

For example, if I turn around, the screen starts to flicker between the image I had before turning, and the image I should have. And when I stop, the view is as if I hadn't moved.
But I know I have moved since the mouse cursor now changes at different places. And where the mouse cursor was when I was turning, there are bits of the correct view pasted there.

It seems that I get the last frame of the last played video always at the screen. When I restore a game previously saved, I get the introduction screen (where there are the play, restore and quit buttons). And when I start a new game, I always have the first view of the Agrippa Temple. Even if I move somewhere else.

So, as i said the patch has absolutely no effect. I tried to add a printf where the patch should have changed something, but that code is not executed at all. These are my modifications:

+ if(!(Flags & DDLOCK_WRITEONLY) && iface == This->resource.wineD3DDevice->ddraw_primary &&
+ !This->resource.wineD3DDevice->ddraw_fullscreen)
+ { printf("x11_copy_from_screen called\n");
+ x11_copy_from_screen(This, NULL);
+ }else printf("x11_copy_from_screen not called\n");

Neither the printf in the if, nor the printf outside the if are called. So i don't know how this patch is supposed to have any effect.

If you don't want to reconfigure your X server with 65536 colors, you can just start another X server using startx. Be sure to have configured the X authority file first.

I created a script for the occasion:
mildred.pastebin.org/44468

Be sure to adapt it to your layout.

Seems the link was out: pastebin.com/f4c71a8f2

The script:

#! /bin/zsh

cd "`dirname "$0"`"
self="`basename "$0"`"

export disp=:1
export WINEPREFIX="`pwd`/wine"

if [[ "a$1" = "a-run-term" ]]; then

export DISPLAY=$disp
xterm -e "./$self" -run-script
exit 0

elif [[ "a$1" = "a-run-script" ]]; then

shift
export DISPLAY=$disp
echo "Start Timidity -iA"
timidity -iA &
timidity=$!
echo "Set up X"
xrandr -s 800x600
metacity &
xreset
echo "Run another terminal"
xterm &
echo "Run Zork Nemesis"
cd 'wine/drive_c/Program Files/Activision/Zork Nemesis'
wine 'c:\\Program Files\\Activision\\Zork Nemesis\\znemesis.exe'
echo "Kill timidity"
kill $timidity
xreset
echo "------------------------------------------------------------"
zsh -i
exit 0

else

auth="$(xauth list | head -n 1 | sed -r 's|^.*\s(\S+)$|\1|')"
xauth add $disp MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 "$auth"

DISPLAY=$disp startx "./$self" -run-term -- $disp -depth 16

xrandr

fi

When I try to run that script I'm told that I don't have authorisation to start an xserver and if I run it as root (sudo) then I can't run ZN in the new xserver as it tells me that root doesn't own the directory that ZN is in. What am I doing wrong?

Well, I don't have any problem, EXCEPT that startx wants to start my ~/.xinitrc instead of the command line :/

Try to remove the two lines with xauth, it does it automatically on my computer.

An updated version of the script in case startx don't work and insists on taking your ~/.xinitrc file instead of the command line client (xterm): pastebin.com/f1941aec8

#! /bin/zsh

cd "`dirname "$0"`"
self="`basename "$0"`"

export disp=:1
export WINEPREFIX="`pwd`/wine"

if [[ "a$1" = "a-run-term" ]]; then

export DISPLAY=$disp
xterm -e "./$self" -run-script
exit 0

elif [[ "a$1" = "a-run-script" ]]; then

shift
export DISPLAY=$disp
echo "Start Timidity -iA"
timidity -iA &
timidity=$!
echo "Set up X"
xrandr -s 800x600
metacity &
xreset
echo "Run another terminal"
xterm &
echo "Run Zork Nemesis"
cd 'wine/drive_c/Program Files/Activision/Zork Nemesis'
wine 'c:\\Program Files\\Activision\\Zork Nemesis\\znemesis.exe'
echo "Kill timidity"
kill $timidity
xreset
echo "------------------------------------------------------------"
zsh -i
exit 0

else

#auth="$(xauth list | head -n 1 | sed -r 's|^.*\s(\S+)$|\1|')"
#xauth add $disp MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 "$auth"

if [[ -e .xinitrc ]]; then
echo "The script mist be in a directory without a .xinitrc file"
exit 1
else
cat >.xinitrc

The script isn't finished, remove the last line and append:

cat >.xinitrc

Hm, the script doesn't look like it's finished at all. I've been playing around with it for a while but couldn't get it to run. By now I understand that you do a 2 step process, first starting a new X server and then calling yourself with a different parameter to start the actual game, and I also understand why you do this. (Comments in the script could have sped up that a lot.) However I am nowhere near a working start script for Zork Nemesis.

Would you mind posting the script again, or uploading it somewhere again?