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[maceman]

Hi All,

Over the last few weeks i have been workling on some issues on my laptop.....Since i was having so many issues , one thing i ended up doing was downloading the latest version of Ubuntu, making it work to boot from my usb stick...and it worked. I did this to troubleshoot an issue i was haing with a new network card i installed, and everything worked under this OS...

 

So, I was wondering if anyone has tried VP under Ubuntu and how it went.

 

Cheers,

Maceman

[TedB]

Last time I tried it didn't work with Wine. Currently the only possible solution might be a virtual machine, but you will probably run into speed issues. 

I am not sure if it is possible, but there is something like Winelibs. With winelibs you should be able to compile a windows source and create a linux binary. Maybe a developer with knowledge of Linux and Windows could make it work.

This is complicated stuff though, so I wouldn't count on it and it might not even be possible.

 

VP is the only reason I still use Windows (aside from my work) 

[kruge99]

I could be wrong, but the underlying requirement for Microsoft's Directx libraries is what prohibits Visual Pinball from being made to run natively in LInux.

[TedB]

http://wiki.winehq.o...0c48abc741260b2

[maceman]

Thanx for the info guys. Very interesting.

 

So i take noone has gotten to work before, that is really all i was wondering

 

It looks like direct X can be installed : http://www.dedoimedo.com/games/wine-directx.html  but i am not sure all that VP requires windows-wise outside of that.

 

I may try to install direct X on Ubuntu to see what happens just for fun!

 

Maceman

[earbiter]

Actually it works and is playable using wine depending on your hardware.  Using software rendering everything looks fine but the play is laggy.  Once you turn on hardware acceleration it is fast BUT objects on the playfield and the FLIPPERS dont display on top so end up being invisible.  This problem is not specific to emulation and also occurs on windoze due to bad video drivers. 

 

I run 12.04 on a phenom 2-x4-965 (4 cores at 4ghz) with an nvidia gts-250.

 

Not at much tweaking as there used to be.  Just run from shell so you can watch the errors.  Then winetricks to fix them.  Just remember to jump through all the install steps to get pinmame connected to vpinball.

[ALY]

It would be nice to have VP working on Ubuntu.

Even if there would be a price tag on it... top seller!