I'm putting a game together (aren't we all ?) and would like it to be the same on Linux & Windows, I wondered if Linux has the same picture and sound capabilities ?

Also for one part of the game I'm having part of a displayed picture magnified with what looks looks like a hand lens, (see http://www.abf-soft.com) will this (or a similar one) run on Linux ?

At the moment Quest isn't available in Linux.

I'm trying to write a C++ implementation of ASL, so it can be cross ported, but I just can't get to the programming table at the moment.. My head is full of other things.

Te he, wonder what they are..... lol!

Is Linux copatability really that vital.

Yeah, we were all excited when it came out. I've got dual boot on my machine. But how often do I use it? Rarely. And most of my friends who know have dual boot or 2 machines spend most of their time on windows environment even though Bill Gates and his band of dwarves suck.

rockyroad wrote:Is Linux copatability really that vital.

I actually wondered about that. Quest works on Windows, which 95% of the computer population of the world use. Why the big deal about getting it to work on Linux?

I got Linux and set up a dual boot just because it was new. I like some things about it but not everything I like to do works on it and to be honest, I'm more comfortable with windows. I wish I liked Linux better simply because hackers aren't interested in trying to screw with only 5% or less of the computer population. Same thing for Mac's. I've got a mac, I like it but I'm not as comfortable with it as Windows. aI've just spent too much time on windows. But Macs and Linux OS aren't really that big a target for the suck hackers.

Well, it is for me 'cos I use Linux 95%+ of the time now.
It does almost everything my Windows did - and more.. And much nicer way to do these things (on the most part) too.

I make no quibbles about it - the only thing I use Windows for now is games/3D demoscene stuff (http://www.pouet.net) .
The only thing I miss out on it the occasional thing - like macromedia flash - nothing available on Linux to create them, and stuck on version 7 to watch movies... Although using Wine, I can get Flash 8 to watch stuff.

What distro did you use BTW?
Seems Linux has had a boom the last 2 years or so - which is probably why you think it's 'new'.. AFAIK it's been around since around 1990, as a free variant of Unix.

Once you get into looking around, you quickly find that Linux works alot like Windows. The only exception being the control panel area. Linux (if you use KDE) has various system settings programs around the K menu which means you may have to hunt a tiny bit to get used to everything.

On the subject of hackers - the operating system is a fair bit more secure than Windows... The whole way that it's seperated into 'bits', so you may pick and choose, and it also means that the operating system is seperated from alot of the programs - while Windows has alot of API/kernel calls, plus the fact that IE is actually melded in with Windows.
I'm not sure if that makes sense or not - but I'm sure you can find some better material out there to explain the security issues with Windows (and Linux - I've heard that BSD is a bit more secure, although Linux can be setup to run at that higher security - where root is actually stopped from removing require system files - although this needs a reboot every time for an update).
I don't know about Mac's, but I just hate Apple stuff.. The only good thing is that the way they tie down the hardware, they can program to optimum effeciency, and so the graphics are quite good..

David, as far as I know, most IF software (tads, inform, etc) runs on Linux - I think most people interested in IF run Linux, but that may be an error on my part.

I think most people interested in IF run Linux

I follow. Linux or MacOSX or FreeBSD. I gave up Quest because the player is not available on Linux. It's a pity because the language is interesting.

If you want to make a player in linux, maybe you could contact the user miito : he wanted to make on in C. I haven't got any news from him, maybe he gave up ?

Tr0n wrote:David, as far as I know, most IF software (tads, inform, etc) runs on Linux - I think most people interested in IF run Linux, but that may be an error on my part.

I think everything but Quest runs on Linux actually (Adrift via interpreters, the rest natively). I don't know about the majority of IF users being on Linux, though. Windows does account for 95% of the computer using market so while there are undoubtedly some Linux IF users out there, I'm not sure it's "most" people.

For my part, I wouldn't switch to Linux because a) I'm familiar with Windows and don't want the hassle of switching; b) will every program that I use which works on Windows work on Linux? Probably not; c) I write games in Adrift which doesn't, at the moment, run on Linux if you want to write games. The playing games side of things is fine however.