I've managed to get Aurora 2. 50 running under wine 1. 2 (escaping Error 13):
NOTICE: I believe only step 1&5 are needed, but I list all my additions just to be on the safe side:
1) Get winetricks (http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks)
2) winetricks vb6run
3) winetricks mfc42
4) winetricks mdac28
5) winetricks dcom98
Optionally, "winetricks tahoma" for the Systemview screen and it's fonts.
If you're on the parts of the world that use the "," for a decimal separator, launch the game with
LANG="en-US" wine Aurora.exe"
in order to set the needed regional settings.
Now, I do get the occasional warning, but nothing gamestopping. I have been playing for about 100 hours now.
The Warning about some logging function is unnerving, since it does seem to grow exponentially in pop-ups every time it happens. I just kill the game and restart, as this seems to be at the end of the loop and doesn't corrupt the DB.
I'm having the feeling that most of the warnings I get are from the game itself and not from wine (at least that's what many of the posts in the bugreporting thread suggest)
If you feel like taking a peek in the db, grab the "mdb tools" from hxxp: mdbtools. sourceforge. net/