Audio Game Support

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Would it be possible to add an audio games choice in winetricks? I was thinking 
about trying to add it myself, but I can't find a list of all the command line 
names for the packages. The audio games choice would need to install visual 
basic 6, all the directX DLLs (not directX itself), and sapi5. Currently sapi5 
isn't included in winetricks, but it shouldn't be hard to add. Also, if 
possible, everything in the audio games selection should install silently 
because the setup dialogs are not accessible with a screen reader.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by stormdra...@gmail.com on 25 Jun 2011 at 6:52

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I've been waiting for someone to ask for sapi support.
Is it really useful for games? 
Can you give me some example games it's useful with,
and are any of them available as freely downloadable demos?

Original comment by daniel.r...@gmail.com on 25 Jun 2011 at 7:01

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There are several audio games that use sapi5. Here are some websites:
http://kitchensinc.net/
http://gmagames.com/
Also, Duck Hunt from:
http://l-works.net/free.php
There are also other games that are self-voicing, they have hade the voice 
parts recorded and just use the recordings. Usually using sapi5 works better 
though because the speec isn't restricted. For more on audio games in general, 
both sapi5 and prerecorded voices:
http://audiogames.net/listgames.php
There are also the articles I have done on my blog to help people get setup and 
playing audio games. The information has changed drastically with the new 
winetricks layout, and I am not sure how to accomplish the same results. I am 
getting requests to update the info and I have been researching, but without a 
comprehensive list of command line package names, I am just not sure how to 
proceed. I know
winetricks vb6run
will get Visual Basic 6 but I don't know how to get the other packages. I am 
also not sure how to make Wine play nicely with pulseaudio. I have about a 
half-second lag when playing games with Wine but for some games it's not too 
big of a problem. Here are the links to my blog:
http://stormdragon.us/?p=61
http://stormdragon.us/?p=66
and the one that deals specifically with winetricks:
http://stormdragon.us/?p=73

Original comment by stormdra...@gmail.com on 25 Jun 2011 at 8:32

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Thanks for the info.  

You can get a list of all verbs with
  winetricks list dlls list settings list fonts list games list apps list benchmarks list
Bug 98 is about that being harder than it used to be.

If you just want to list settings, do
  winetricks settings list

Original comment by daniel.r...@gmail.com on 25 Jun 2011 at 11:59