[alekso]

Hello all,

is there any software that can be use under Linux for BBO ?

thanks,
Alekso

[vang]

maybe not the answer you are expecting, but it works just fine with vmware...

[hrothgar]

I'm going to echo Vang's suggestion:

I've just started using VMWare to create a virtual Windows machine on a Linux box. BBO seems quite happy.

The solution is not perfect, however, the major drawbacks seem to be related to the horsepower of my PC rather than any theoretical problems.

[FurubiS]

I try with winex and i connect to the server but not possible play, because timeout (sorry for my poor english). However i try with the version cvs. Version with support Transgaming ( build .rpm ) is better imho. FurubiS

[naj]

FurubiS, on Jun 11 2004, 12:41 PM, said:

I try with winex and i connect to the server but not possible play, because timeout  (sorry for my poor english). However i try with the version cvs. Version with support Transgaming ( build .rpm ) is better imho. FurubiS

There seems to be a problem with wine and networking applications which use winsock.dll (sorry, at first I wrote netsock, which is bogus).
See http://bugs.winehq.o...bug.cgi?id=1882
Hopefully it gets fixed soon.
OTOH, wouldn't a native linux version be possible?

Cheerio, Jan

[hrothgar]

naj, on Jun 14 2004, 04:47 PM, said:

OTOH, wouldn't a native linux version be possible?

Cheerio, Jan

A native Linux version is definitely possible. It shouln't be too difficult to reverse engineer the communications protocols.

Personally, I'd love to have one available.
I nominate you to write it.

Please let me know when I can download the finished product.

[naj]

hrothgar, on Jun 14 2004, 09:50 AM, said:

A native Linux version is definitely possible.  It shouln't be too difficult to reverse engineer the communications protocols.

Personally, I'd love to have one available.
I nominate you to write it.

Please let me know when I can download the finished product.

Well, perhaps it would be easier using bbo's source code. Then one wouldn't have to guess the
protocol.

The other approach would be to try to compile the windows source using wine.

Would it be possible to get either a description of the communitation protocol or a look into the source?

And sarcasm isn't all that helpful...

Cheerio, Jan

[hrothgar]

naj, on Jun 14 2004, 06:01 PM, said:

And sarcasm isn't all that helpful...

Cheerio, Jan

Sorry about that. You're right. It was uncalled for.

I've had "this" conversation a couple times with Fred. In particular, I have tried to convince Fred that it would be worthwhile to define a standard interface between the client and server.

I wrote a piece for the Bridge World a few years ago in which I argued that Online Bridge services could be decomposed into three different layers

1. The bridge server
2. The graphical user interface
3. Regulatory authorities

I argued that integrating these layers would detract from end user value. I prefered a solution in which a given GUI could interface with a variety of different servers. In a similar fashion, an organization like the ACBL could run tournaments on a variety of different servers. Furthermore, I suggested that Zonal organizations like the ACBL should not directly enter the Online Bridge market. Rather, the best course of action for them would be to try to facilitate the development of common standards.

I've talked to a number of the "players" in online bridge. From my perspective, Fred has by far the most comprehensive vision regarding how Online Bridge and BBO can evolve over time. I've made a concious decision to stop pushing this issue and wait and see how things develop. I've been pleasantly surprised on a number of occasions so far, and hope to be so again.

In the short term, I'm happy to play arround with third party solutions like vmWare.

[didier17]

BBO is record in the wine application database:
http://appdb.winehq.....php?appId=1830

You can go to this site, login and vote for this application.

If we are enough, may be the patch will be.

[Gerardo]

3.9.2 doesn't work under wine nor cedega here ( cedega worked till 3.9.0)

[QweZaq]

3.9.2 under Cedega works fine here (Mandrake 10.0), except the places IE is used to show html-pages.

[Gerardo]

thx! which version of cedega?

[QweZaq]

CVS from about a month ago.

I used the GetCVSWineX-script from this page.

[Gerardo]

Installed X.org packages from Ubuntu/hoary, instead of old XFree86 ones. Now 3.9.2+ works.

[TrialBid]

I'm delighted to find this thread here. I've been trying to make NetBridgeVu.exe run under wine and I've been getting tantalizingly close.

A note I've not seen elsewhere here: to run NetBridgeVu.exe 3.9.3 with standard wine, you must have WINEDLLOVERRIDES='atl=n' to execute at all.

Wine bug 1882 seems to be the barrier we are all waiting to get through. Transgaming's version gets past this problem but seems to have trouble with symbol fonts. So I'm holding out for seeing this run under plain-old-wine.

If you are just looking to display hands that the "myhands" pages or your hard disk archives have (the .lin files), here is a perl script I use to invoke NetBridgeVu.exe to display a .lin. For that purpose it works fine under wine.

You must save this file on your machine, chmod it as +x and then (if using mozilla or firefox) when you click on a .lin file, you can answer "Open with" and browse to where you saved the file. You'll need to change the imbedded paths to where you have BBO and your temp files.

#!/usr/bin/perl
open OUT,">/home/steve/tmp/bbo.log";
print OUT scalar @ARGV,join "~",@ARGV;
close OUT;
system 'WINEDLLOVERRIDES="atl=n" /usr/local/bin/wine \'C:\\Bridge Base Online\\NetBridgeVu.exe\' '.join(' ',@ARGV);
system 'rm -f '.join(' ',@ARGV);

[QweZaq]

The font problem under WineX is easy to solve: search google for symbol.ttf and place it in fake_c/windows/Fonts.

Lars

[scoob]

http://www.codeweavers.com/site/compatibil.../cat?app_id=780

[Gerardo]

Uday did some *preliminary* work on the network code, so BBO can run under Wine.
It works!!!!!!! It is not yet release quality code, but stay tuned for next releases.

Symbol.ttf stil needed, embedded browser doesn't work (news page, and some other things)
under 20050930 (what I tested).

Thanks Uday!

Gerardo

[PaulH]

Excellent news

Thank you for your efforts Uday!

I can hardly wait for the new release as BBO is the last application that I use windows for.

Will be nice to start just calling into BBO when I feel like it again.

[Gerardo]

Install 450beta , then install the contents of this in the proper directory, and use them to start BBO.

Works under Wine, better than Cedega (toolbar at bottom, more pleasant fonts IMO, etc)

Enjoy!