Made the editor work in linux.

[Blaquesmith]

Greetings,

After reading the documentation, i wasn't sure if it'll work well under linux, so i decided to give it a try. Since maybe someone can benefit from my experience, thought that i'd post the procedure here. It's quite simple (i'm not exactly a linux guru), and it's tested and (it seems) fully functional in my Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala):

1) Install wine from synaptic.
2) Open terminal, and insert this lines one by one to install winetricks, .NET 2.0, and the fake iExplorer:
               > wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
               > sh winetricks corefonts dotnet20
               > sh winetricks fakeie6
3) Install AGS. Should run sweet. (I didn't have any major problem)

First time I tried, i got some problems installing AGS on wine 1.2 (the new beta), then i removed it all and tried again on the stable version (which is marked like "wine" in synaptic), installed dotnet, installed AGS without a single problem, and then upgraded wine from the regular version to the 1.2. Works like a charm.

Hope this is useful to anywone willing to create adventure games under linux. 

[RedBlob]

Thank you. Followed the steps, working.
Imported a game that I worked on under XP, the only problem so far I found is that I cant open a view or a character, alto i can open a room for edit. For view and character, it only want to export or delete or whatever.... also no way to open the global script with a click, must go to the file tab and do it from there.
So, at this point I can program, which is nice, but view and character setups must be done under XP, since I just can't see to open those windows for editing...
any suggestions?

[RedBlob]

Have been using it for an hour or so now, however, there is a memory corruption. Then it crash.
It seems that that automatic complete your typing thingy just crash it. Better to type in another editor, then copy past back into AGS, otherwise it just thows an memory dump.
Eventually, it messed up a sprite?, and now it cant load anymore. (I guess I saved after another crash... sometimes you could recover from the crash.)
At this point, Im giving up.
Rather a shame tho... since the other home computer does have XP, but the wife uses that one (which has XP), so no AGS programming for me on my laptop which has Ubuntu.. ai ai.

[RickJ]

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