the requirements for getting this app running under wine

[jfmherokiller]

at first the app will crash due to dotnet issues. these are fixed with winetricks --force dotnet40 corefonts

once dotnet is successfully installed the app will complain about TTS issues.

to fix this complex issue perform these steps

1. Collect the files you'll need to install.
   • In case the downloads won't easily start: The Download Center has a noscript tag with direct download links between the "Thank you for downloading" headline and the "Install Instructions" button.
   • Runtime: http://web.archive.org/web/20180324173437/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=27225
   • SDK: http://web.archive.org/web/20180304124818/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=27226
   • Languages (you'll need at least one): http://web.archive.org/web/20180304122215/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=27224
     • SR = speech recognition, TTS = text-to-speech

Install the runtime and sdk and choose a tts language.

Next copy the "Microsoft.Speech.dll" dll into the Quest 5 directory.

Finally Replace the Player.dll with my patched version Player.dll.tar.gz

my dll replaces this line https://github.com/textadventures/quest/blob/28b466b83125efdaf9bcdec1013b81e207cbfe09/Player/Player.vb#L20 with this Private m_speech As New Microsoft.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer

Source used: https://github.com/mk-pmb/msspeechsdk_v011_wine_howt

[ThePix]

Thanks for that. I have linked to it from the help page on Linux. I will leave this open, as I suspect it is an on-going issue.