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Outpost Series Games => Outpost 2 Divided Destiny => Topic started by: Marohen on July 08, 2007, 12:31:31 AM

Title: Linux Woes
Post by: Marohen on July 08, 2007, 12:31:31 AM

I have a friend who runs completely on Linux... how do you get OP2 to work with WINE on it? Or is there a ported version?

Thanks, oh, yeah, and I'm new here. (Yey)

Title: Linux Woes
Post by: Sirbomber on July 08, 2007, 10:57:51 AM

You can't. Sorry.

Title: Linux Woes
Post by: Arklon on July 08, 2007, 12:29:31 PM

It "works", but not very well at all. Just ask op2hacker. I think that's why he ended up switching from Linux back to Winbloze.

Title: Linux Woes
Post by: Mez on July 08, 2007, 02:13:50 PM

OP2's networking code will not work in WINE.

So you will need windows or need to virtualise.

Title: Linux Woes
Post by: BlackBox on July 08, 2007, 03:12:32 PM

I heard that actually in the newest versions of WINE that the network code will work (somewhat), and not hang...

I think if you want to play OP2 on linux right now, you're probably best off just installing something like QEMU or VMware and installing windows onto that.

Title: Linux Woes
Post by: zhukant on July 08, 2007, 03:45:21 PM

Was Linux even in existence when OP2 was published?

Title: Linux Woes
Post by: Mez on July 08, 2007, 04:26:06 PM

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Was Linux even in existence when OP2 was published?

Yes, version 0.02 of the Linux kernel was released in 1991.  Version 1.0 in 1994.

Although it was in a very young form.

Title: Linux Woes
Post by: Nightmare24148 on January 11, 2008, 06:04:06 PM

If you're talking about the modern form with a GUI...oh boy. :P

Yeah I'd suggest trying OP2 with each new release of WINE (which are pretty frequent) - things can magically work. Over a year/two ago, TA was able to work fine. And I recall OP2 working pretty good.