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Anybody had any luck getting WITP going in Linux? With Wine or whatever.

I am thinking of trying Wine with my SUSE Linux box. If it works I'll post the results. First I must escape the in laws for more than a few minutes[:)]

One of the people on the AE team runs Linux with, I believe, Wine.  Last I heard, it worked.

Bill

ORIGINAL: EUBanana

Anybody had any luck getting WITP going in Linux? With Wine or whatever.

Several people have reported running Windows emulation programs under LINUX and getting WITP to work... i plan to start on this project at the first of the year, but i have to learn Linux first...

Well, Wining a windows installation gives me a "Fatal Error: 200", so not a good start...

Well, not that it's entirely relevant to this thread, but Guns of August does work under Wine for me. [:D]

I got WITP to run quite happily on Win98 operating system in a VMWare virtual machine. See WiTP on Linux.

There was a minor issue with the DirectX animations (isn't there always...) but otherwise WITP performed flawlessly.

The test in the screen shots was running on a WinXP host though VMWare has a linux client which will work just as well. (My Linux box wasn't up to the specs of my XP machine).

Have a look at this thread as well :Operating systems

Edit: Andrew Brown seems to be running WITP in VMWare on Linux now!!

ORIGINAL: EUBanana

Anybody had any luck getting WITP going in Linux? With Wine or whatever.

Not knowing anything about Linux, I really hope that "Wine" is a computer program.....I would hate to think that you need to get your computer drunk so that it would "put out".

WINE stands for WINdows Emulator for Linux.  (There are jokes about WhINE related to Windows problems.) 

I believe one of the AE play testers has AE running under WINE in Linux.

Bill

[size=-3]from Wikipedia (I know but it was a convenient source)[/size]

Wine is a free software application that aims to allow Unix-like computer operating systems on the x86 or x86-64 architecture to execute programs written for Microsoft Windows. Wine also provides a software library known as Winelib against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like systems.[1]

The name 'Wine' derives from the recursive acronym Wine Is Not an Emulator. While the name sometimes appears in the forms "WINE" and "wine", the project developers have agreed to standardize on the form "Wine".[2]

How Wine works is that it doesn't run programs under a genuine Windows operating system like emulators (such as VMWare) but simply provides a (freely distributable) set of windows compatible dll libraries (Wine API) that windows programs can utilise to run properly under the native linux operating system. Wine also provides the mechanism so the programs can find these libraries.

The compatibility issues pop up because the Wine API libraries aren't 'exactly' the same as the MS equivalents but they are pretty good and getting better. DirectX is the usual fly in the ointment so 1st person 3D shooter games are (were) always iffy but 2D applications can run quite well.

Check out these links:
WINE HQ: Debunking Wine Myths
WINE HQ: Wine Application Database (No WITP isn't on it [size=-3](yet)[/size] but several other Matrix titles are...)