My Guide To Running Sam & Max On Linux

[Cheeseness]

Soultaker, joem13 and Cardcaptor Stacey, you guys have installed the SecuROM patch, yeah?

I'm like Cassidy. I've got a 64 bit chip, but only running a 32 bit OS.


I'm trying to get the demo of Ice Station Santa happening, but I can't work out where to click to launch the sucker. I click "No thanks, just take me to the demo!", and I end up on a screen with an add for Chariots of the Dogs on the left and an image for Ice Station Santa on the right. There's nothing obvious to click on. Sometimes it takes me to the "Choose your poison" page, and twice I've managed to click wherever I'm meant to to launch the game by accident, but both times I've adjusted video settings and ended up having to quit to fix the graphics.

Anyone know whether there's a button I can't see or whether it's just acting bizarre under Wine or what?

Edit: Managed to get in again. It seems like you need to click on the space between the two options on the "Choose your poison" would be. Maybe. I'm not brave enough to quit and try again.

[Cardcaptor Stacey]

Cheeseness - Yes I installed the patch. Without the patch, it doesn't work at all.

I don't think the chip is the problem because I'm on 32-bit and I getting the same error. Is it because we are trying on a newest version of WINE while the tutorial is for 0.9.5.5? I don't particularly want to downgrade it, but I will if it is not possible getting it to work in the new version.

[Cassidy]

Originally Posted by Cardcaptor Stacey

Cheeseness - Yes I installed the patch. Without the patch, it doesn't work at all.

I don't think the chip is the problem because I'm on 32-bit and I getting the same error. Is it because we are trying on a newest version of WINE while the tutorial is for 0.9.5.5? I don't particularly want to downgrade it, but I will if it is not possible getting it to work in the new version.

I have kept upgrading WINE as they have come out. I took the following steps: Nuked my .wine directory and followed the same tutorial I wrote and it still worked fine. I then Nuked my entire Ubuntu install, reinstalled, patched, and followed the tutorial again and it still worked!

I also forced it to not work, for example I noticed that whenever there is any other drive mappings in WINE config other than "C: ../drive_c" and "D: /media/cdrom", the game will crash. Also, I have noticed the DVD version of the game seems to be the pickiest when run under Vista, I don't know why. I even installed the DVD after doing the Downloadable Version Tutorial and it worked once I changed the Windows Version from Vista to XP or 2008 or 2003 or 2000.

This is just what I have noticed so far. I will keep fiddling...

[Cardcaptor Stacey]

Okay I've done your tutorial again (with nuking) and now I have a new error. It's keep saying
"Oops! It seems your Sam & Max Season One DVD isn't in the drive" even though it's in the tray. It's never come up with this error message before. Tried in Vista and XP among a few others without any luck.

[pavon]

Hi, has anyone gotten this to work with the demos? I have an older machine and want to see how well the game runs on it before I buy the disk.

So far I got the Secure Module error to go away by selecting Vista, and I installed the Gecko plugin. I'm getting stuck at the login webpage. With Episode 101, it asks for my serial number, with the following message:

You're logged in! Great!
But ... you have more than one serial number for this product on your
account, and we don't know which one you want to use to unlock the game.

With Episode 201, I get a webpage saying "Please Wait, logging you in ...". There is a button that says "No thanks, just take me to the demo!>>", but clicking it does nothing.

Any ideas?

[Cheeseness]

Originally Posted by pavon

With Episode 201, I get a webpage saying "Please Wait, logging you in ...". There is a button that says "No thanks, just take me to the demo!>>", but clicking it does nothing.

It doesn't seem to work right without ies4linux. Gecko doesn't cut the mustard with the demos

[dersk]

I'm having troubles as well with getting 106 to work (the downloadable version). I'm running Ubuntu Gutsy and wine .9.55. Installs okay, and when I click to start the episode (i.e., under the logo), I get a blank window briefly, then a crash with an error "Invalid vertex function called".

Any ideas?

[Cassidy]

Originally Posted by dersk

I'm having troubles as well with getting 106 to work (the downloadable version). I'm running Ubuntu Gutsy and wine .9.55. Installs okay, and when I click to start the episode (i.e., under the logo), I get a blank window briefly, then a crash with an error "Invalid vertex function called".

Any ideas?

I might suggest updating to the most recent version of WINE. They have seemed to have updated a bunch of DirectX stuff post 0.9.56. Unfortunately, I haven't personally seen that problem. What kind of video card are you running?

[Kjella]

My experience on a plain Gutsy/WINE 0.9.58 install with windows version set to Vista:
Episodes 202, 203, 204 (download) work by entering serial, quitting then launching the game again. Episode 201 is somehow special and does NOT work. So no need for ies4linux for those three episodes at least.

[dersk]

Originally Posted by Cassidy

I might suggest updating to the most recent version of WINE. They have seemed to have updated a bunch of DirectX stuff post 0.9.56. Unfortunately, I haven't personally seen that problem. What kind of video card are you running?

I'll try it with the newest WINE tonight - the card is an ATI Radeon something or other (it's the home lappie - an Inspiron 9200), and the restricted driver seems to work pretty well. Too bad Virtualbox won't support it...seems to be a really handy VM app.

Thanks for the recommendation!

[Celeras]

Anyone having trouble lauching the game on a 64-bit system might want to try the following command:

setarch i386 -X wine SamMax101.exe

[glandythorpe]

I'm running Ubuntu Gutsy with Wine 0.9.59 (upgraded recently from the WineHQ resources) and the ie4linux doesn't cut the mustard for me any more (at least 204 and 205 would crash immediately).

I ended up using Wine Doors (http://www.wine-doors.org/wordpress/) and installing Ie 6 from there. It really makes the initial interface weird: in 205, it didn't have any visible graphics (the graphics were off screen and had to scroll to see them) and simply asked me for the serial number; after that, it had a link in the upper left with which to start the game. The game itself ran fine.

[Cardcaptor Stacey]

Nuked Wine again and installed 0.9.59.

I just realised that I have the Adventure Company version, so I patched it with SamMaxSeason1_SecurROM_1.0_TAC.exe. Tried running it and it asked for the disc, so I put it in but comes with loads of fixme's in the Konsole. So I guess the tutorial is not the same. Maybe it's for the WINE team to fix? Anyone else having the same problem?

[Tigrath]

Celeras -- I'm running Gentoo on an AMD Athlon64 x2 4200+ and have been working on getting sam&max (downloadable episode version) running for the last couple hours. I was getting a Securom module 6000 failed to run message until I changed Wine to Vista mode, then it just failed to run, giving some page fault error. A quick search on here and setarch i386 -X was the ticket! This thread and its posters are my heroes!

[Cardcaptor Stacey]

Okay, I've installed it again and the game launches, but it just sticks at a black screen. It comes up with lots of errors, so I'll report it as a WINE bug

[THAiSi]

Download Play on linux on http://www.playonlinux.com/en/ or from the repository
"sudo apt-get install playonlinux"

download the season 1 script here (work in progress, let me know how it works!)
http://thaisi.thaboo.com/pol/samnmax-season1.sh

in Play on Linux, go to Tools -> Run non-official script, and choose the script you just downloaded.

That should do it! (it works for me!)

If the reactions are positive, I'll try to get this script official, and then it can be found in the Play on linux repository directly :-)

[THAiSi]

I adjusted the script so that is also sets the proper episode icons!


It's waiting for validation at PlayOnLinux to be added into the repository, but untill then you can download the script from the post above

[rmjb]

For the life of me I could not get this to work on Ubuntu Hardy with wine 0.9.59 (in ubuntu's repo) or wine 0.9.61 (winehq's repo). I was trying with the demo however, was hoping it would work so I could buy season 1 and hopefully Strong Bad's game .

[Celeras]

The approach in the first post of this thread no longer works. With Wine versions 0.9.59 or later, the game won't run with IEs4Linux.
It should run on an unmodified wine installation as long as you have the windows version set to Vista.
The demos, as far as I can tell, doesn't work at all (they probably would have, if there were any way to start them). Neither does Ice Station Santa

[THAiSi]

Yeah I noticed the same, you can only play them if you have the serial.. and Ice station santa won't work at all.. all because the IE requirement of the splash screen. I created a topic about it in the main sam and max discussion board: http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/...ead.php?t=5095