Steel Panthers in Wine on Fedora Linux

Steel panthers installed and run out-of-the box 
with latest wine rpm.

Wine is a Windows compatibility layer for Linux. 
"Steel Panthers - Worlds at War" is a free (as 
in no cost) strategy game about the second world war. 
RPM package manager is a simple way to install 
programs on Fedora Core Linux. Steel panthers is 
written for MS Windows, but with Wine it is possible 
to run it on Linux. 

Screenshot: 
http://iki.fi/karvinen/linux/doc/steel-panthers-wine.jpg

(c) 2004 Tero Karvinen 

I had Fedora Core 1 installed and software updated. 

Download and install latest rpm version of wine. 
http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/redhat/en/i386/fc1/RPMS.newrpms/wine-0.20040321-1.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh wine*.rpm
Removed old wine configuration 
$ mv $HOME/.wine $HOME/old.wine

Download Steel Panthers 8.0 and 8.1 upgrade. Download is more than 
half a cd, 400+ MB.
http://www.steelpanthersonline.com/ Enter, Downloads
http://www.matrixgames.com/default.asp?URL=http%3A//www.matrixgames.com/support/downloads.asp
$ md5sum Steel*
c076ad9fbc077764bec513974d738289  SteelPanthersWorldAtWarSetup-v80d.exe
12530f78a8f8420778f234be273c443c  SteelPanthersWorldAtWarUpdate-v801.ex
$ ls -sh Steel*
422M SteelPanthersWorldAtWarSetup-v80d.exe
1.2M SteelPanthersWorldAtWarUpdate-v801.exe

Run installer under wine, next next next... 
Don't change any defaults if not needed, upgrades work 
better with default install locations. 

Maybe from my previous installation of wine, but had to 
fix wine-c (the fake C:) permissions: 
# chown -R tero:tero wine-c 

Run upgrade under wine. next next next... 

Locate the installed program and run it under wine. 
Must be in the correct dir when the program is run. 
$ cd "$HOME/.wine/c/Matrix Games/Steel Panthers World At War/" 
$ wine MECH.EXE
After a moment, the game opens in fullscreen, background 
music starts, mouse moves cursor. 

Test by clicking
 Solitaire Play; (000-Tutorial SPWAW), Start, Continue, 
 Start Turn.
You are in the game. By pressing eg. 'C' you can see that
keyboard works too. 

You can choose to start Steel Panthers either in a window or 
fullscreen from $HOME/.wine
"Desktop" = "800x600"   ; enable to play in window, 
		; comment out to play fullscreen
Atl-Tab can change you out of fullscreen game without 
quiting it. 

Steel Panthers is installed, thanks Matrix Games and Wine. 

For manuals, see pdf files in Steel Panthers installation
directory. SPWaW-Manual.pdf has the tutorial. 

Your men don't die, they just go to /dev/null to regroup. 

(c) 2004-04-08 Tero Karvinen http://iki.fi/karvinen 
GNU General Public License GPL