Application Details:
| Version: | Demo |
| License: | Demo |
| URL: | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... |
| Votes: | 0 |
| Latest Rating: | Platinum |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.3.11 |
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What works
Installation
Worked fine.
Patch
Not applicable. The demo is just a single exe and hpi file, and I'm reasonably sure one cannot apply the 1.0-3.1c patch to the demo
Running: Missions
Started fine. Seemed fluid. Things seemed to work
Running: Multiplayer
Not included with demo
What does not
- game wouldn't run for me without configuring a virtual desktop
- scrolling with the mouse to the top, bottom, and left worked fine, but to scroll to the right, I had to position the mouse exactly on the edge of the window (!= edge of screen, because my screen is 800x480, and window of Total Annihilation is 640x480), which is essentially unplayable for me.
Workarounds
What was not tested
- skirmish mode
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
It is tricky to rate this. There are two ratings possible, depending on hardware, specifically: screen hardware. If you have a monitor that can run at 640x480, the rating is probably platinum For people with LCDs, which I feel is increasingly the majority, and if the LCD cannot run at 640x480, I feel the rating is 'Bronze', since I had to run the game in a virtual desktop in order for it to run at all, and it was unusably difficult to scroll the screen to the right. The mouse pointer had to be positioned *exactly* over the edge of the virtual desktop window, which was far too annoying to actually play. Note that the full TA version, with 1.0-3.1c patch works fine in a virtual desktop: scrolling with a mouse is fine, but the demo was, for me, effectively unplayable. This despite the gaem installing and running perfectly without a hitch, but without being able to scroll around easily it's for me I feel a showstopper that renders the demo for me unplayable. For those with a monitor that can run at 640x480, the effective rating I feel is 'platinum'.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Arch Linux | Jan 14 2011 | 1.3.11 | Yes | Yes | Platinum | Benjamin Debski | ||
| Current | Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Aug 09 2009 | 1.1.27 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Hugh Perkins | ||
| Show | GoboLinux 014 | Oct 19 2008 | 1.1.6 | Yes | Yes | Platinum | Nathan Bennett | ||
| Show | Gentoo Linux | Dec 02 2007 | 0.9.50. | Yes | Yes | Platinum | killertux | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 6.10 "Edgy" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jan 16 2007 | 0.9.29. | Yes | Yes | Platinum | an anonymous user |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 7334 | Workaround for lack of 8bpp (8-bit, 256 color) support on 24bpp displays | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
| 8724 | Total Annihilation: PCM mute/unmute/change in WineOSS | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 8960 | lack of GLX causes wine to crash | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 12194 | Some DDraw games flicker the screen | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 19667 | Demo for Total Annihilation: mouse scrolling of screen unworkable. | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
Please see how-to for version "Total Annihilation + Core Contingency + Battle Tactics + 3.1 patch" at http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=7306 , just ignore anything to do with multiplayer, core contingency installation and so on, and installation will be from the demo .exe , rather than from a cd.
Demo specific notes:
- I feel that the demo probably won't run playably unless you can set your screen resolution to 640x480.
- Note that the full TA retail version, with the 3.1c patch installed, is I feel fully playable, doesn't have the mouse scrolling issue that the demo has.
- essentially, unless you can set your screen resolution to 640x480, the demo will probably crash on startup, unless you use a virtual desktop. If you create a virtual desktop, you may find that scrolling with the mouse is unworkably difficult, because you have to position the mouse pointer exactly over the edge of the window.
