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Title: Stick Online works on Linux
Post by: Tuffi on July 26, 2011, 09:26:28 PM
So I recently installed openSUSE 11.4 on my laptop as my main Linux distro.  I installed WINE, and decided to test S.O. just to see if it would run.  To my amazement, after updating all the game files, it proceeded to run and was playable.

Here is a picture of S.O. running on openSUSE 11.4 with Wine 1.3.12
(http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/8118/stickonline.png) (http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/8118/stickonline.png)
(Click to go to full size version)
Title: Re: Stick Online works on Linux
Post by: Cactuscat222 on July 26, 2011, 10:48:43 PM
Well... Wine is a virtual desktop meant to emulate Windows, correct?

If so, I couldn't imagine why it wouldn't be capable of running SO in the first place. Still cool to see in action though! :)
Title: Re: Stick Online works on Linux
Post by: Tuffi on July 26, 2011, 11:02:47 PM
Last time I tried (which was a few months ago) Stick Online didn't run under Ubuntu.  So I'm not sure if it was Ubuntu, or if they updated WINE with better compatibility.

Also, WINE isn't an emulator, but a compatibility later.  How it works is it proxies Windows function calls to native Unix functions.
Title: Re: Stick Online works on Linux
Post by: Cactuscat222 on July 26, 2011, 11:28:47 PM
Quote from: Tuffi on July 26, 2011, 11:02:47 PM
Last time I tried (which was a few months ago) Stick Online didn't run under Ubuntu.  So I'm not sure if it was Ubuntu, or if they updated WINE with better compatibility.

Also, WINE isn't an emulator, but a compatibility later.  How it works is it proxies Windows function calls to native Unix functions.

Ahh okay. I wasn't sure, so sorry about being mistaken. Well, now SO should run on all platforms, huzzah!
Title: Re: Stick Online works on Linux
Post by: Scotty on July 26, 2011, 11:35:44 PM
Quote from: Cactuscat222 on July 26, 2011, 11:28:47 PM
Quote from: Tuffi on July 26, 2011, 11:02:47 PM
Last time I tried (which was a few months ago) Stick Online didn't run under Ubuntu.  So I'm not sure if it was Ubuntu, or if they updated WINE with better compatibility.

Also, WINE isn't an emulator, but a compatibility later.  How it works is it proxies Windows function calls to native Unix functions.

Ahh okay. I wasn't sure, so sorry about being mistaken. Well, now SO should run on all platforms, huzzah!

WINE = Wine Is Not an Emulator

I've attempted it in the past with SO several years back without any luck.  I'm glad to see they've finally gotten around to making GM games compatible.
Title: Re: Stick Online works on Linux
Post by: czechmate on July 27, 2011, 04:05:14 PM
On Ubuntu, at least for me, it says "Unable to load Resources.sor".
Title: Re: Stick Online works on Linux
Post by: Tuffi on July 27, 2011, 06:00:33 PM
Yeah, that's why I wasn't sure if it was just openSUSE or a newer WINE version.  What version of WINE are you running?
Title: Re: Stick Online works on Linux
Post by: czechmate on July 28, 2011, 03:07:54 PM
Quote from: Tuffi on July 27, 2011, 06:00:33 PM
Yeah, that's why I wasn't sure if it was just openSUSE or a newer WINE version.  What version of WINE are you running?

Well I was using 1.2.2, and I got it to load but not load Resources.sor.  Then I tried updating and after that, it doesnt even open, it says "unexpected error" or something (I can't recall the exact wording) while on the loading part.  I'm on Ubuntu 10.04.