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| ==== Wine ==== | ==== Wine ==== | ||
| - | Running SimSig on Linux is possible using Wine. It's proved to run on Fedora, Mint and Ubuntu. \\ | ||
| - | Even the old (Didcot paged, Liverpool Street, Stafford, Swindon paged) installers run fine on 64-bit systems. \\ | ||
| - | On Mint (Gnome version) there are some problems running SimSig out of the menu, you can use desktop shortcuts instead, or use the Gnome menu instead of Mint's one. \\ | ||
| - | Or download The Fiddle Yard and put it on your desktop (more info at the bottom of this page). | ||
| - | Wine can be downloaded at http://www.winehq.org. With that, you can install everything as you would do using Windows ([[usertrack:ssinstall:installation|Windows installation]]). \\ | + | Running SimSig on Linux is possible using Wine. It's proved to run on Fedora, Mint and Ubuntu. Even the old (Didcot paged, Liverpool Street, Stafford, Swindon paged) installers run fine on 64-bit systems. On Mint (Gnome version) there are some problems running SimSig out of the menu, you can use desktop shortcuts instead, or use the Gnome menu instead of Mint's one. |
| - | It is, however, preferred to install Wine from your distro's repository. \\ | + | |
| - | When joining an Edinburgh multiplayer game with Wine 1.3.9, SimSig will lock up shortly after loading if ARS or ACI is on. With Wine 1.3.28 Bristol, maybe other sims as well, fail to install. | + | Wine can be downloaded at http://www.winehq.org. With that, you can install everything as you would do using Windows ([[usertrack:ssinstall:installation|Windows installation]]). It is, however, preferred to install Wine from your distro's repository. When joining an Edinburgh multiplayer game with Wine 1.3.9, SimSig will lock up shortly after loading if ARS or ACI is on. With Wine 1.3.28 Bristol, maybe other sims as well, fail to install. |
| - | Wine's stable 1.2 versions usually work well. | + | Wine's stable 1.2 versions usually work well. Wine needs to be built with libxml2 support. |
| ==== Registry fix ==== | ==== Registry fix ==== | ||
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| ==== Paged sims ==== | ==== Paged sims ==== | ||
| - | Sometimes you need to hide the panel, or turn of Compiz desktop effects, before starting a paged sim. Else you might get the panel displayed on top of the message box, causing the latest message to be unreadable. \\ | + | Sometimes you need to hide the panel, or turn of Compiz desktop effects, before starting a paged sim. Else you might get the panel displayed on top of the message box, causing the latest message to be unreadable. |
| - | Downgrading Compiz on Ubuntu 11.04 (running without Unity) or Mint 11 might also help: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/05/how-to-downgrade-to-compiz-086-in.html \\ | + | |
| + | Downgrading Compiz on Ubuntu 11.04 (running without Unity) or Mint 11 might also help: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/05/how-to-downgrade-to-compiz-086-in.html | ||
| KWin (KDE's desktop effects) can cause a flickering screen on paged sims, and to a lesser extent scrolly sims on slower computers. The only work-around is to turn off KWin. | KWin (KDE's desktop effects) can cause a flickering screen on paged sims, and to a lesser extent scrolly sims on slower computers. The only work-around is to turn off KWin. | ||
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| You can run Convdata from the Linux terminal as ./convdata.exe or wine convdata.exe. You can also convert your terminal to a Windows command prompt by running wine cmd. | You can run Convdata from the Linux terminal as ./convdata.exe or wine convdata.exe. You can also convert your terminal to a Windows command prompt by running wine cmd. | ||
| - | ==== The Fiddle Yard ==== | ||
| - | The font size of the installer is very small; the program itself works fine. You might need the VB6 runtime files: \\ | ||
| - | $ winetricks vb6run \\ | ||
| - | The Fiddle Yard will always detect a 32-bit computer - Wine's 64-bit support is still experimental and turned off by default. If you let it think that your computer is 32-bit, it works fine. | ||
| ==== End notes ==== | ==== End notes ==== | ||