Weird Worlds Linux please

BluSteel · #1 February 25th, 2006, 09:15 PM

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

san · #2 March 9th, 2006, 01:13 PM

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.

Quote:

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

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!

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.

Nukenin · #3 March 15th, 2006, 04:45 PM

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.

Fingers · #4 March 18th, 2006, 06:22 AM

Mac OS X port is definitely coming.

BluSteel · #5 April 3rd, 2006, 03:53 AM

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

HMX · #6 November 30th, 2006, 06:34 PM

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

HMX · #7 November 30th, 2006, 06:40 PM

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

BluSteel · #8 February 17th, 2007, 05:46 PM

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HMX said:
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
HMX

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.