Running The Spirit Engine under wine (Gnu/Linux)

[claudio]

Hello,

I have written a patch for wine,
which enables running The Spirit Engine under
GNU/Linux (tested), and possibly FreeBSD and Solaris
on X86.

I wrote the instructions here

On a side note, anyone knows whether TSE runs
correctly on plain old Windows 95?

[Mark Pay]

Hi Claudio. Sorry I haven't responded to you sooner. Thanks for doing this, much appreciated. It's a shame that there are still some issues, like the crash bug, but it's still neat to have the game running on Linux.
I'm afraid I haven't heard whether or not the game runs on win95. It should, but I couldn't confirm it.

[claudio]

[Batchy-tse]

TSE works in win95. i don't have problems saving/loading preferences and games.
but the game runs without music and with lots of modfusion crashes.

the machine is a 120 Mhz Pentium with 32 Megs of RAM. lots of part are out of sync because the game is too slow. the grundelkrunk is invincible (taking shots but won't lose points)

[Mark Pay]

Thanks Batchy
120Mhz? Wow. :O I tried the game out on my old 200Mhz Pentium and it was pretty slow there.

You can find a version of the game with the old version of the Modfusion plugin removed here:

http://www.thespiritengine.com/Files/TSEBuild0615musicstrip.exe

I'm afriad that I can't do much about the other bugs. Because of the mix of timed and loop based events, some of the stuff in the game gets very wierd if it is run on relatively old PCs.

[Batchy-tse]

that's the version i used. i first tried the normal version but it was slower, and it was impossible to get to homestead; modfusion would crash after the first or the second fight.

[Mark Pay]

Are you sure it was Modfusion causing the crashes in the music stripped version Batchy? It shouldn't even be in there, and there's certainly no code running it on any frames.

[Batchy-tse]

sorry if it was misunderstood. the stripped version did not crash, but it was buggy.

[Mark Pay]

Whoops, sorry. Thanks for the clarification.

[TwiTerror]

The good news is that the music engine for TSE2 is being completely redesigned and I'm going to more thoroughly bug-test it, so we should be crash-free in round 2 (;

[claudio]

[Mr Nobody]

I'll have a try at TSE using linux. Last time I tried without this patch, the game worked fine but there was no music or saving/loading. I'll see if this patch works on openSUSE 10.2

[claudio]

[Mr Nobody]

The patch works. But it took almost 30 minutes to "make install" it. The first time a tried it, i didn't have all the necessary packages. So i did what this:
http://en.opensuse.org/Wine#Repositories
told me to do. I tried again with all of the necessary packages required. And it worked! I installed TSE and the sound, loading/saving worked. Apart from one thing. the cursor image was broken. It's probably just my graphics driver's fault. Or the lack of it! (There's no 3d driver from VIA that is actually easy to install on opensuse 10.2).

I didn't like the process because I don't like installing all these packages that I don't need to use in the future. I like a "clean" system. And I don't like installing source packages. I like binary ones. RPMs. This procedure is way beyond the average user. Although what average user would use linux? I wish the binary version was patched! Now I'm going to reinstall opensuse to get it "clean" again.

Although it worked very well, it was a messy process.