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spin
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posted 18 April 2002 01:50     Click Here to See the Profile for spin   Click Here to Email spin        Reply w/Quote   Visit spin's Homepage!
With the release of WineX 2.0 running D2X on your linuxbox has become a reality among others

For detailed info go see : http://www.transgaming.com/showthread.php?news=31

I'd be willing to test this baby to the full extend as far as D2X is concerned and checking to see which tools will and won't work for modmaking using this and/or WINE. if anybody is interested.
Linux has been my live and my work for many years now, so helping with linux related stuff here should not be that much of a problem

(edit: 2 typoos)

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Brother Laz
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posted 18 April 2002 03:37     Click Here to See the Profile for Brother Laz   Click Here to Email Brother Laz        Reply w/Quote   
I know someone who will like this. For a year already he's trying to make WipEout 1 (1995) run under Linux.

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But it takes only one second of despair and of doubt
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spin
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posted 18 April 2002 05:39     Click Here to See the Profile for spin   Click Here to Email spin        Reply w/Quote   Visit spin's Homepage!
whoohoo!

It worked like a charm

Check a screenshot here : http://iceman.maxcom.nl/images/shot.jpg

In this (fullscreen) shot you can see a diablo II running, even using D2Loader with the multiclient option and it's running -direct -txt with my mod.

If anybody needs help installing this beauty just let me know here! I'd be happy to help with this in any way I can

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FoxBat
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posted 18 April 2002 17:42     Click Here to See the Profile for FoxBat   Click Here to Email FoxBat        Reply w/Quote   
Wow maybe I can give up Windoze entirely

Edit: hey, can you give me an idea of what apps you know you can and can't run with this? I am seriously pondering going over to a linux system now...

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Zhoulomcrist
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posted 18 April 2002 18:16     Click Here to See the Profile for Zhoulomcrist        Reply w/Quote   
Yeap. I've been able to do this before using the WINE Windows Compatibility Layer under RedHat Linux 6.1. Shortly after I had gotten D2X, I had tried this and it worked under GLIDE and DirectDraw.

It's a great thing for many reasons. Better performance, no worry over those damned Windows keys on your keybaord that can mess you up, and a number of other things.

For yall linux users out there reading this, you can get the latest version of WINE at www.winehq.com. If you have any concerns about WINE compatibility with your Windows Apps and games, feel free to check the WINE Application Compatibility Database available from their site.

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P51mus
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posted 18 April 2002 18:17     Click Here to See the Profile for P51mus   Click Here to Email P51mus        Reply w/Quote   
Foxbat...a click google search turned up the main site for Wine which is at:
http://www.winehq.com/

I followed some links there and found a list of apps :
http://appdb.codeweavers.com/appbrowse.php
It's somewhat imcomplete on some of them though....some of the listed things don't say whether it works or not.

(it's browsable by type, you can search and such, etc)

You know, I'm really thinking about getting a Linux whenever I get a new computer...
It seems to be worth it, and with Wine my main "fear" of not being able to use any games I want to play with it goes away...

Edit: From what I've seen, WineX seems to be something similar to but based off of Wine. Am I right? The WineX site seems to not work right now....
and apparently WineX works a bit better than Wine with games...

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spin
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posted 19 April 2002 00:57     Click Here to See the Profile for spin   Click Here to Email spin        Reply w/Quote   Visit spin's Homepage!
WineX is something similiar to lets take crossover for example. It's wine + extra api's and wrappers.

In crossover's case it means running wmp, office, using the fonts, and have the IE plugins native in netscape. Crossover is a commercial plugin tho.

WineX is subscriber based, and included the DirectX, Direct3D and openGL api's. It also has identifiers for a lot of games.
To give an example. If I load D2Loader.exe it doesn't fork a "wine Game.exe". If I rename D2Loader.exe to Diablo II.exe however it does do this when I load this Diablo II.exe.
So this version of wine knows of this exe and it's needs

FoxBat> I will indeed test allot of the tools over the weekend and I will report back here with the successes and failures

So if you want to use this use the TransGaming WineX 2.0 one. Even CVS works like a charm.
Once I'm through playing with this I'll consider writing a howto for all of it

CVS (self compile) is still open since it runs on sourcforge. go to http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=17631 for it. Do the first to cvs lines, modulename is wine. then do ./tools/wineinstall. This worked for me under Redhat 7.2 without any problems. If you need help editting the ~/.wine/config to fitt D2's needs just ask me here. I've done it 3 times now

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spin
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posted 19 April 2002 01:37     Click Here to See the Profile for spin   Click Here to Email spin        Reply w/Quote   Visit spin's Homepage!
After a quick test with some of the tools I can report the following

2 notes.
a. This is done without any screwing around with configs nor sourcecode. For the things that didn't work I will try these steps but not now for I also have some other stuff to do currently.
b. Some tools don't say much to me. (the ds1 editor comes to mind). So the test was a simple load proggy, open file, close proggy. Using only default WineX.

Here are the current results
cv52 - Didn't Work. Loads its main window, but not the folder browser. Also doesn't close nice (the debugger gets called)
d2excel - Works.
dv6maker2 - Didn't Work. The debugger got loaded right in the begin of the install process.
ds1 editor - Works.
mpq2k-10 - Didn't Work. I'll definitly look closer at this one. running dos in wine is "something else", but there is still freedos to try for one, and there are many other dos emulators
mpqview - Didn't work. Loads but didn't view any files once data file and archive were opened.
tbledit102 - Didn't work. Debugger got loaded almost instantly.

as you can see, it's still not completly all roses and sunshine :/

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