hi all.
with the most recent wine 0.9.29 finally AOW1, AOW2 and AOW:SM all are playable in Linux (in my case Ubuntu 6.06 LTS).
big differences to the posts above:
1) AOW is playable with the regular opensource wine, without the you-have-to-pay-for Cedega.
2) at least AOW1 and AOW:SM install perfectly with the default installer, no need for complicated setups any more (still, thanks, guys for the aforementioned howtos).
working meants: perfectly playable on a 1GHz/512MByte machine (yes, I tested one of the Groll's maps). play-by-email works as does singleplayer (of course), I have yet to get hosting a multiplayer game to work in SM (in AOW1 there is already a nasty way with native DLLs for this...).
the intro movies have to be either skipped or disabled, but you hasn't by now anyway?
better yet, both AOW1 and AOW:SMs editors work fine. expect some maps from me soon. never too late starting mapmaking, right?
bye for now,
Poldi