Ahh ok. Interesting. FreeStrike.arc is just a standard zip archive that all the resources including those text files are located in. It will try to load and present them at startup. If it can't read the zip at this point, most likely it can't read in the other resources needed by the demo as well. There should be like 3 files in the cloudtest.zip (cloudtest.exe, freestrike.arc and tbengine.dll). It started so the exe/dll are working. I'm thinking that its having problems reading the zip under the wine environment or the freestrike.arc is corrupted maybe. When you click the run button, will it start? Should see a scrolling background, ship and some rocks will drop down? Maybe is a path issue as well. I look for the .arc file on the path returned by ParamStr(0).