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Game_boy · Last edited by Game_boy on Tue Dec 25, 2007 12:13 am; edited 4 times in total

Announcement: Battleships Forever is playable on Linux

This topic will be updated whenever a new release of Wine or Ubuntu

[b]25/10/07: BF v.82, Ubuntu 7.10, Wine 0.9.49

Battleships Forever and Ship Maker:

Fully playable on Linux if correctly configured, with the exception of no surfaces, no music and no fullscreen.

Instructions on how to use:

1. Open bfconfig.ini in the game folder. Set

th15 · The Big Cheese Joined: 13 May 2007 Posts: 1617

Eh, I thought you'd get a directsound error when running BF rather than just having it fail to load? That message that you've got there is what you would see if the GM runner itself failed to initialize and happens before it gets to my code.
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Game_boy · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:08 am Post subject:

Wine's behaviour changes based on the version of everything else on the computer: for instance, a bug in the graphics driver could crash the runner before it even reaches interpreted code.

I don't know why it does that, or anything else. It's amazing that it even loads at all - DX7 is the latest version to be vaguely stable through Wine, anything after that and it's a case-by-case basis.

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EDIT: When it loads but the focus isn't on the loading window, it it gives a "Failed to initialize Direct Music Audio" popup and then:

th15 · The Big Cheese Joined: 13 May 2007 Posts: 1617

Hmm the only file I open to append to is the savedata fle. Was there a lock on that file when you ran it for any reason?
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Game_boy · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:54 am Post subject:

The build you sent me works perfectly apart from a) It only works when log.log is empty (I assume you append to that, explaining the other error) and b) this error (You didn't take out the other half of the DLL code):

th15 · The Big Cheese Joined: 13 May 2007 Posts: 1617

Yea I only took out the references to the music in the main menu, going after all the rest would take time.

Any idea what's causing the video corruption? I would suspect that it's surfaces, might wanna try turning that off. Then again the same problem happens with ship maker. You're right about appending to the log file too.

How's performance though? I know Wine doesn't really make very good use of hardware acceleration since it is emulated after all.
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Game_boy · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:06 am Post subject:

th15 · The Big Cheese Joined: 13 May 2007 Posts: 1617

I remember at one point there was some news about being able to run GM games on wine flawlessly, wonder why that would've changed for the worse. Thanks for taking the time to test it man.
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TranquilRage · Commander Joined: 23 Jul 2007 Posts: 162

I use gentoo for my work box and as one of the hard drives in my beast of a gaming rig, but i keep windows as the default OS because i play lots of games and wine just doesn't cut the mustard across the board. Good work though, id love to while away the quiet hours at work making BF ships.

Game_boy · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:22 pm Post subject:

Game_boy · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 10:19 pm Post subject:

BF is now fully playable with certain options set on Ubuntu 7.10/Wine 0.9.49. See first post for details.
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Anarki · **BANNED** Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 970

Yay for Linux users.

truekaiser · Ensign Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 5

Not quite. it should be titled 'playable on linux with ati cards'

i am on gentoo linux here tried all versions of wine with the latest battle ships forever and all i get is 'unexpected error occurred when running the game'

wine output.