WiTP on Linux

[Crimguy]

As an fyi, I have heard great things about both Zen and vmware on linux. I run XP, OS X and have a debian server, and XP is by far my least favorite OS to use.

I have VMWare fusion on my mac, and it is fantastic. 3d games are an issue, but Conquest of the Aegean, AACW and Flashpoint Germany all run fine. Haven't tried WitP, but would expect it to work well.

[Marduk]

Hi
sorry for digging up the topic, but I'm considering installing Ubuntu Windows. However, I'm still not sure how does WiTP work on it. Has anyone tried?

Simon

[Crimguy]

Haven't tried it. What are you considering, Virtualbox? VMWare? Wine? It'll work well under VMWare. I almost guarantee it. Probably will work in virtualbox as well. I wouldn't expect much from wine but I tried that back in 2005. I"m sure it's come a long way since then.

[Marduk]

I don't know yet, I'm only considering it now. Thank you for your response.

[jazman]

I have VirtualBox running a Windows 2000 install on my 64-bit windows box at home. I need it for kids games that are 16-bit. You can run VirtualBox on Linux, too, and on another machine I have Linux running in a VM.

The trouble with Windows guests is that XP and later versions require this activation thing. That's why I'm using my old Windows 2000 version.

Here's a screenshot of WITP running in my Windows VM (it works in fullscreen mode, too). You can see WITP running in the native host machine, too (bottom-right, behind the VM). I could take this windows VM and copy it to a Linux box if I wanted, and it'd work.

The VM version is pretty snappy, though I didn't run any turns.

[Reg]

Bump for those interested.....

[Wolfie1]

Yup, I'm interested - my new PC arrives Saturday and it has Ubuntu installed so I'm still trying to work out if I can install my two favourite games (WitP and JTCS). Having read all the threads, I'm still not sure it I'll be able to run it.

[Omat]

Hi

Maybe it works now with Wine.
The Wine development release 1.2-rc3 says:

http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.2-rc3

Bug fixed:
19524 War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition: game hangs on starting any scenario

So I think this is the same problem as in War in the Pacific. So maybe both Versions working right now. I didn`t test it.

Omat

[boatrigm]

I'm running WitP on Ubuntu 10.04 using the VMWARE player and windows xp. No issues so far.

[Perturabo]

Hey, guys. It would be nice to get WiTP series working under Wine. When I start a scenario in WPO, I get something like this:



Most of graphics aren't displayed. Does the same happen with WitP?
I get that bug with some other wargames - minimap in BftB and map in F2C2.

It would be good to gang up and report that bug in WineHQ. I think that several people need to confirm it. Creators of Wine are fixing more and more bugs in each release. Some games that were unplayable a version before are now playable, so it's important that we report bugs in the games we want to play.