Weird Worlds Linux please
 

I played the demo on my brother's Windows computer and it seemed pretty cool. Since this game uses OpenGL, a port should not be too hard. Plus, you would get good exposure from The Linux Game Tomb and LinuxGames. I'll buy a copy.

Thanks!

Re: Weird Worlds Linux please
 

Noted. We've discussed it too, but if we do a Linux port it wouldn't be until way later this year.

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I'll cross my fingers. If you feel that you don't have Linux skills, you could contact CodeWeavers. They have a Windows to Linux porting service.

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BluSteel: While I utterly despise Linux, I am as UNIX guy. Wierd Worlds run fine on both WINE and Cedega.

You being a Linux sort of person, I suggest Cedega as it install easy and allows you to play more of your modern games on it (to included DirectX games WINE doesn't like)

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The main problem we have with porting to other platforms is not finding someone to do it, but the fact that we can't do proper "quality control" on operating systems we don't run. It's not very responsible to sell something we haven't seen ourselves... Bugs and other problems could easily go unnoticed by someone who isn't intimately familiar with the game.

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eol: I tried it on WINE, but no go. Running things on stock WINE is always hit and miss, and very few things work perfectly. As for Cedega, I had a subscription for about a year, but I can't justify another one for a single game.

Fingers: Understood. I knew it was a long shot when I asked, but a guy can dream, can't he?

Linux is not the beast it once was. If you want to give it a try, I suggest Mepis. You can download it free from www.mepis.org. You can boot the OS directly from the CD, so you can try it without installing anything.

I'd be happy to do quality control http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Hola,

another linux-only user here. I just want to say, among other things, that I would buy this game if it had a native linux-client. I am a gamer, but not a hardcore one - this game look very appealing to me.

I can wait, personally, so no rush.
I noticed that the game uses both OpenGL and SDL, which should make porting that much easier (I'm not a coder...)

I'd also be happy to do quality control! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif
Oh BTW, have a nice time @ IGF!

PS: tried it under WINE just to try, but it didn't work. Besides, for me it's native or nothing.

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One thing I thought while playing the game today is that it'd be a perfect game for the Mac as well. If you go through the effort of porting to Linux, then you may as well do a port for OS X as well.

I despise all operating systems to varying degrees, and play the game anyways on Win2K/XP, but this game deserves the broadest audience it can get. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Mac OS X port is definitely coming.

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Also, you could see if Linux Game Publishing would like to do the port for you. That would take the burden off quality control. The website is www.linuxgamepublishing.com

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I don't know if anybody is still reading this, but I can successfully run and play Weird Worlds (all versions) on Ubuntu 6.06 linux by using wine (0.9.25 and 0.9.26) and running it as:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="msvcrt,dinput=n" wine weird.exe

(you need to copy the msvcrt.dll from your windows installation to the WW directory)

I've also seen some reports that people were able to get it running with earlier versions of wine on fedora core 4:

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5589

Cheers and happy playing,
HMX

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Actually, with just a little bit of work an unofficial linux instalation can be made by bundling wine with the game installation like Google does for example in Picasa for linux.

In this way the majority of distributions/versions/flavors of linux would be supported!

If there is enough interest for such an "unofficial version", I could make the installer.

Cheers,
HMX

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I gave this a shot. It worked on Wine 9.31, but the mouse cursor is invisible throughout most of the game. This makes it basically unplayable.

I will still root for a native port.

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Hi BluSteel,

did you copy the msvcrt.dll from your Windows installation?
I never had any cursor problems :/
I will try tonight with wine 0.9.32 to see if it still works (it's been a while since I last played it).

Edit: I've tried today and I have the same cursor problem. Seems to be a regression in Wine...

Cheers,
HMX

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I took the liberty to produce a proof-of-concept installation
script for the Weird Worlds demo. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

The script will download the demo setup executable, a
compatible binary version of wine (0.9.25), and msvcrt.dll.
The script will then proceed to install and configure
everything. The installation is completely local. Just
remove the directory, and it's gone, no system-wide changes
are made.

I should warn you, the script is not very robust, but it
worked flawlessly on several different machines I've tested
it.

-----------------------------------------------------------

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

1.) make an empty directory for the game, for example:
> mkdir ww ; cd ww

2.) get the installation script:
> wget http://www-f9.ijs.si/~matej/ww/weirdworlds_install.sh
> chmod a+x weirdworlds_install.sh

3.) run the installation script:
> ./weirdworlds_install.sh
Note: when the windows installer starts, install the game in
the default location. Do not run the game or view the Readme
at end of installation (uncheck the boxes).

4.) run the game http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
> ./weirdworlds_run.sh

-----------------------------------------------------------

<font color="red">DISCLAIMER:
I hope Shrapnel Games won't mind, since the demo will be
downloaded directly from their site. I also don't know
what is the legal status of the msvcrt.dll, but nowadays
these files are floating around everywhere... Wine should
be ok. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif</font>

Cheers,
HMX

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Since I like this game so much and really think there is a
sizable linux market for this kind of games, I took the
liberty and made a stand-alone installer for the demo:

weirdworldsdemo-1.0-linux-installer.bin (RapidShare)

The graphical installer is really simple and self-explanatory
(thanks to the fabulous BitRock Install Builder).

The package comes with wine bundled, and even includes an
uninstaller program. Everything gets installed in a single
user-selected directory. Neat &amp; clean.

This package should work on most modern linux distros.
(I've only tried ubuntu 8.04)

Cheers,
HMX

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... oh, and if Shrapnel Games wishes I would gladly provide
the whole BitRock Install Builder project tree used for building the above package for free!