[krodgers]

I guess this must have been asked before, but.......

....is it possible to run BBO under Linux (e.g. +WINE, CrossOver. etc.)?

Ken

[hrothgar]

works fine under vmWare
no experience with WINE, Codeweaver, etc.

[OrShoham]

BBO installs fine on Wine (The newest version) and runs up to the lobby. HOWEVER, any attempt I made to join a table as a player or spectator caused me to time out. Additionally, I had some minor font-related issues (text was ugly, and suit symbols wouldn't show).
I have limited experience with Wine, but I do know most problems like this can be fixed by replacing any Windows DLLs used by the program in question on Wine with ones copied from a Windows version where it is known to work. I'd be happy to try this if someone from BBO could let me know which DLLs are relevant.
Or

[krodgers]

Thanks OrShoham. You describe exactly what I have found with WINE - it's OK until I try to join or serve a table, and then it hangs.

Appreciate that it will run under VmWare, but was rather hoping to spare myself the expense of that for the sake of just the one application.

In the event, I suppose it's not a major problem, in that I maintain a Windows partition for the sake of two or three old apps. anyway. When playing bridge, it's really no big deal to re-boot in Windows, since one plays for hours at a stretch and generally one doesn't need anything else simultaneously. Would have been a Nice To Have:-)

btw, okwin from okbridge runs very well under WINE. One just needs to insert the line
wine=1
anywhere in the .ini file.

Kind regards
Ken Rodgers

[ack_hh]

According to Dependency Walker (see here) the following DLLs are required (Win98):
wsock32, comctl32, kernel32, user32, gdi32, comdlg32,
advapi32, shell32, ole32, winmm

[krodgers]

Hmmm .... I'm getting out of my depth (situation normal!!), but from the WINE HQ FAQ:-

Alternatively, you may be able to get the app working by taking native DLLs from a Microsoft Windows install, and using them (set the dlls to native in the config file). Not all DLLs can be replaced that way - in particular DirectX cannot be, nor can some core system DLLs like gdi32, user, ntdll, kernel32 etc.

Kind regards
Ken Rodgers

[uday]

We just havent gotten around to it. We dont use anything too scary, but we do use one deprecated API call, and that is probably what is messing up WINE. Someday.

[krodgers]

uday, on Aug 3 2004, 08:37 PM, said:

We just havent gotten around to it. We dont use anything too scary, but we do use one deprecated API call, and that is probably what is messing up WINE. Someday.

Ah - OK - that would explain everyting?

Many thx, and no sweat - as I said, maintaining a Windows partition is no great burden.

- but someday, when Penquins Rule in a happier world....?:-):-)

Kind regards
Ken Rodgers

[OrShoham]

I run Linux on a spare box, and WinXP on my main box, so no problems here, either (I tried BBO under wine one day when my XP box had a power supply die and was out for the weekend).
Would be nice to have it run under Linux though. VMware isn't really a viable solution for home users who want to stay on the right side of the law - if we wanted to be paying for Windows, we'd install it to begin with (;
If you ever get around to making a list of relevant DLLs, I'd be happy to experiment and/or troubleshoot under Fedora Core 1, Fedora Core 2, RedHat 8, RedHat 9, Debian 3, and SuSE 9 (Of course, it should run identically on all of these, but you never know with Linux).
Or

[Gerardo]

An alternative to VMWare (for the time being) could be the QEMU CPU Emulator
It is slower than VMWare, and a CPU hogger (read the docs about Win 9x not realeasing the CPU when idle), and it is not really usable in my PII/300, but a newer/faster PC should be able to do it.

[Gerardo]

News
Cedega (new name of WineX) from TransGaming WORKS!!

Go to download, only chance for non suscribers is CVS, go there, download via CVS, configure, make, make install,etc ;-)

It has a few glitches (nost notably the toolbar at the top, constantly redrawed, plain Wine had it too, fixed there), but it is usable.

HINT: Get a Symbol.ttf from somewhere

[hrothgar]

Gerardo, on Aug 15 2004, 12:29 PM, said:

News
Cedega (new name of WineX) from TransGaming WORKS!!

Go to download, only chance for non suscribers is CVS, go there, download via CVS, configure, make, make install,etc ;-)

It has a few glitches (nost notably the toolbar at the top, constantly redrawed, plain Wine had it too, fixed there), but it is usable.

HINT: Get a Symbol.ttf from somewhere

LIFE IS GOOD

Life is VERY good...

[didier17]

I try to get Winex with cvs and i failed ...

I have some hesitation to be a subscriber for Cedega to have a rpm for my mandrake distribution without to besure that's the good way.
Can you confirm me It's work with Cedega (ex-WineX) and not with Wine ?
What's the version of winex or Cedega ?

[Gerardo]

Yes. Wine has a network problem, after the login not one byte is sent to server.
Cedega 4.0.1 works, for me it has some small problems (toolbar at top, Spanish keyboard not fully functional, and hangs from time to time. Other than that, it works well)

[inquiry]

Gerardo, on Sep 21 2004, 01:14 PM, said:

Yes. Wine has a network problem, after the login not one byte is sent to server.
Cedega 4.0.1 works, for me it has some small problems (toolbar at top, Spanish keyboard not fully functional, and hangs from time to time. Other than that, it works well)

Its open source.. take the code and fix it... :-)

Ben

[didier17]

we can be a bridge player and don't have the capacity of hacker, may be ♥

[didier17]

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

You can go on this site, and vote to it for a patch in future wine version.

[macaw]

I'm using Win4lin, on an install of Mepis, which is a Debian based release of Linux, and it works extremely well, no problems with disconnections, etc. And I can use the most recent stable kernel

[didier17]

Do you need a windows OS for Win4Lin ?

[Gerardo]

Yes, you need a Win OS (9x if I remember well last time I checked) for Win4Lin