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elfsPopCap games has released Bejeweled Twist for the PC, and is scheduled to come out with a Mac version later this year. Since Omaha is a Mac game reviewer, she gets nifty free copies of lots of different things and one of the things she scored was a copy of Bejeweld Twist PC edition. Most people have seen Bejeweled, the tetris-like game where you try to line up jewels to score points; it's PopCap's best-selling game and damnably addictive.
I have long praised PopCap for being Wine compliant. I've bought three of their games before: Zuma, Bejeweled 2, and Peggle (Peggle's my favorite; unicorns for the win!), and all three run absolutely flawlessly under Wine. They've all worked so well that I have to wonder if PopCap does a QA pass under Wine. Testing under Wine would probably cost them a day of development and open up an entire new audience that they couldn't reach before.
Bejeweled Twist doesn't work under Wine. It plays, but there's a bug in the registration code. Apparently, Twist uses DDE to talk to the underlying HTTP libraries, and there's a disconnect such that Twist is passing an empty URL to winebrowser and no dialogue is happening between the two. So I'm stuck in "Free User" mode, which has a lifespan of 120 minutes before the game craps out and I'll have to re-install it or something. Other games with on-line registration mechanisms have worked for me in the past, so this is a bit of a disappointing step backwards.
It's a pity, because Twist is a very beautiful game, with great audio and gorgeous backgrounds. It's really just Bejeweled with a different mechanism for lining up the stones, and with new "benefits" and "reward" modes. But since I have a registration code, I'd like to, you know, be able to register my game.
I have long praised PopCap for being Wine compliant. I've bought three of their games before: Zuma, Bejeweled 2, and Peggle (Peggle's my favorite; unicorns for the win!), and all three run absolutely flawlessly under Wine. They've all worked so well that I have to wonder if PopCap does a QA pass under Wine. Testing under Wine would probably cost them a day of development and open up an entire new audience that they couldn't reach before.
Bejeweled Twist doesn't work under Wine. It plays, but there's a bug in the registration code. Apparently, Twist uses DDE to talk to the underlying HTTP libraries, and there's a disconnect such that Twist is passing an empty URL to winebrowser and no dialogue is happening between the two. So I'm stuck in "Free User" mode, which has a lifespan of 120 minutes before the game craps out and I'll have to re-install it or something. Other games with on-line registration mechanisms have worked for me in the past, so this is a bit of a disappointing step backwards.
It's a pity, because Twist is a very beautiful game, with great audio and gorgeous backgrounds. It's really just Bejeweled with a different mechanism for lining up the stones, and with new "benefits" and "reward" modes. But since I have a registration code, I'd like to, you know, be able to register my game.
