Eets

What works

The installer runs and completes. The game can then be run by cd'ing to "Program Files\Eets\Bin" and typing "wine Eets.exe" At this point the game attempts to show its nag screen (a locally stored HTML form) and Wine, accordingly, pops up a window indicating that it's about to download and install Gecko if you haven't installed it already. When this is done, you get the game's standard nag screen with options to either enter a a registration key or play the game. Entering the key works perfectly (I was able to copy and paste it from Mousepad into the Windows dialog box), and the game runs at full settings (1024x768 resolution, lighting, music, sound), at native speed, with no bugs. If you have an NVidia card and choose "Aspect Ratio Scaled" as your "GPU Scaling Method" in nvidia-settings, before running Eets in fullscreen mode, then Eets appropriately expands to the height of your screen while keeping its aspect ratio, adding black bars to the sides.

What does not

• The Eets installer creates a "\Program Files\Eets\Bin" directory, containing two files: Launcher.exe and Eets.exe. Eets only runs if I type "wine Eets" when "\program files\Eets\Bin" is my current working directory. That means that the Eets shortcuts that Wine creates in my desktop environments don't work.
• Running Launcher.exe does nothing (Wine prints a carrage return and then exits with no further messages). I don't know if it's like this when run natively.
• If you play without having entered a registration key, you see a "Reminder" window when you quit the game that contains HTML code, with "okay" and "buy now" buttons at the bottom. This window disappears fairly quickly.
• When I ran the game fullscreen in Xfce, moving the mouse pointer to the bottom of the screen still caused my (autohiding) Xfce panel to pop up.

Workarounds

What was not tested

I didn't play the game to completion. I only played a few levels.

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

Wine is a prebuilt package from slacky.eu. Testing was done one a completely fresh Wine install (I had no .wine directory, settings or virtual drive when I started these tests).