Running Maniac Mansion Deluxe in Wine (Linux)

[discord]

I downloaded the runtime and installed figured out the appropriate libraries myself, too bad i didn't find this thread. I'm running feisty. Anyways I installed wine and downloaded maniac mansion deluxe and tried to run it but i get this scripting  error:

kelly@kelly:/tmp/ags-v2_72_920$ ./ags /home/kelly/games/mm/Maniac.exe
Adventure Creator v2.72 Interpreter
Copyright (c) 1999-2001 Chris Jones
ACI version 2.72.920
CD-ROM Audio support enabled.
Pentium Pro CPU detected.
Speech sample file found and initialized.
Checking sound inits.
Script link failed: Runtime error: unresolved import 'GetFlashlightMinLightLevel'


can anybody help me? thanks

[Gilbert]

Since you mentioned you installed wine, did you mean you just execute the Windows binary using wine? In that case your question does not belong to this thread. This thread is for the native linux AGS interpreter engine. If you're just executing the game using wine, I'll say it's possibly some settings or emulation issues, I think maybe linux gurus would be of help (I haven't even touched Linux).

If what you did was running the game with the Linux binaries (but shouldn't need wine), judging from the error message, the game used plugins, which aren't implemented by the Linux engine yet (I think).

[strazer]

Yes, this game uses the flashlight plugin which is why it doesn't work with the Linux engine because that doesn't support plugins. So the only way to run it would be in Wine (or a VM obviously).

Script link failed: Runtime error: unresolved import 'GetFlashlightMinLightLevel'

First, make sure the plugin file AGSflashlight.dll is in the game directory.

If it is, maybe it can't find the plugin dll because Wine is operating out of a different working directory (I had that happen with a few other games before). Try opening a terminal window, then change to the game's directory (for example):
  $ cd /home/discord/mmd
then run Wine from there:
  $ wine Maniac.exe