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| Tow dragon |
Posted: 2009-02-07, 14:18 Post subject: |
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| Zamolxis wrote: | | Just to make sure: are there (should there) be any sounds in VCMI already? As I haven't noticed any (except for the "click" when we select menu sections). Or was that referring only to VCMI not being able to start on PC's which don't have the possibility of playing audio? |
Yes, it's the onyl sound you should hear as for now. |
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| Zamolxis |
Posted: 2009-02-07, 03:38 Post subject: |
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I thought of doing an "inventory" of all bugs reported in previous releases, to check if any of them has 'come back'. Naturally I started with this thread, and it's this post that caught my attention:
| Tow wrote: | Yes, the sound is initialized between creating window and setting window title to VCMI (as the fonts). Check for "Mix_OpenAudio" error message on the output.
Currently VCMI crashes if unable to properly open audio, it should be changed in the next release (especially while there are hardly any sounds). |
Just to make sure: are there (should there) be any sounds in VCMI already? As I haven't noticed any (except for the "click" when we select menu sections). Or was that referring only to VCMI not being able to start on PC's which don't have the possibility of playing audio? |
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| Tow dragon |
Posted: 2008-11-14, 11:22 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | instead of making a conversion of VCMI to be used on linux |
We have some progress in porting VCMI to Linux so I think it's not necessary to make it work with wine. When we decide that it'd be good to provide Linux version, we will release native binaries.
| Quote: | | You could probably use winelib for that, and make it an optional build depency |
Winelib eases porting win32 applications to Linux when you have it's sources. The problem is that we need a dll we don't have sources of. Video player works because somebody guessed how to use that dll to play videos - so we need to have a way of running win32 dll on Linux without porting. |
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| mots |
Posted: 2008-11-13, 19:48 Post subject: |
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| Tow dragon wrote: | | Yes, we are going to release Linux version of VCMI but I don't know when. There will be some problems with it such as video playing (we have an application that plays about a half of original Heroes III videos but it uses one of Heroes III dlls, which probably couldn't be executed on Linux) but most features should work. |
You could probably use winelib for that, and make it an optional build depency |
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| Emiren |
Posted: 2008-11-13, 19:10 Post subject: |
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| instead of making a conversion of VCMI to be used on linux |
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| Tow dragon |
Posted: 2008-11-13, 13:40 Post subject: |
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| Emiren wrote: | | why dont you just use wine instead? |
Instead of what? Video player in VCMI is hardly implemented (just general structure). We haven't yet started to look for a solution for the problem of video player on Linux. |
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| Emiren |
Posted: 2008-11-12, 23:46 Post subject: |
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why dont you just use wine instead? it must be easier than changing the video player
if you need any help with stability and other bug tracking in linux let me know =) |
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| Tow dragon |
Posted: 2008-11-11, 11:16 Post subject: |
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| Yes, we are going to release Linux version of VCMI but I don't know when. There will be some problems with it such as video playing (we have an application that plays about a half of original Heroes III videos but it uses one of Heroes III dlls, which probably couldn't be executed on Linux) but most features should work. |
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| Emiren |
Posted: 2008-11-10, 23:52 Post subject: |
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| Yeah noticed... it tries to detach a process that it isnt attached to |
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| fLuXx |
Posted: 2008-11-10, 22:54 Post subject: |
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| Are you planning to port VCMI to linux some day? That would be pretty cool and you would also gain a comunity, as linux gaming is not very big and every game is a precious jewel to us. You could even gain a few developers (I would volunteer if only I knew programming well enough - I know a lot, but I have no experience) |
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| Tow dragon |
Posted: 2008-11-10, 14:23 Post subject: |
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| Unfortunately AFAIK VCMI doesn't work on Linux + wine either :(. |
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| Emiren |
Posted: 2008-11-09, 14:28 Post subject: |
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| okay, that would explain why i could use it before and not now. looks like ill have to boot into linux and use wine then hehe |
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| Tow dragon |
Posted: 2008-11-09, 14:08 Post subject: |
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| So it is probably a problem with operating system. No VCMI devs have Vista, so I don't know when it will be solved. |
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| Emiren |
Posted: 2008-11-09, 04:23 Post subject: |
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| the answer to both your questions are yes. reinstalled just to be sure but still the same |
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| Tow dragon |
Posted: 2008-11-08, 10:44 Post subject: |
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Two questions:
1) Are you sure you have run VCMI through VCMI_client.exe?
2) Did you install this : http://www.microsoft.com/...&displaylang=en ? (it's 32 bit version, don't try to look for 64 bit version as it won't work with VCMI). |
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