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Feb 8, 1999, 3:34am

PLEASE give us info on a Linux Browser. I paid for an account almost a
year ago, and only got about 3 months use out of it because I threw out
my Windows partition.

Im sure there is a browser in existance, AW just doesnt want to support
it (like many companies). Linux is not going away...more and more
people will migrate to it, and if you do not support this user base AW
will suffer. You dont need to support it; we can support ourselves.
But give us the client.

I will even volunteer my services of maintaining the code, I will even
host the fileserver for people who want to download it. I have a
permanent high-speed connection to the Internet, and am very capable of
software maintenance.

*Please* at least give us info on this topic. AW is lovely, and Id
really love to go back. Im sure others would as well.

Merc

Feb 8, 1999, 6:21am

There is a post in beta ng from facter to running the AW browser under Linux.
To have a native support - forget it. Criterion doesn't have the Linux version of RenderWare - the the rendering engine of AW.
So try facter's proposal.
Andras


[View Quote] > PLEASE give us info on a Linux Browser. I paid for an account almost a
> year ago, and only got about 3 months use out of it because I threw out
> my Windows partition.
>
> Im sure there is a browser in existance, AW just doesnt want to support
> it (like many companies). Linux is not going away...more and more
> people will migrate to it, and if you do not support this user base AW
> will suffer. You dont need to support it; we can support ourselves.
> But give us the client.
>
> I will even volunteer my services of maintaining the code, I will even
> host the fileserver for people who want to download it. I have a
> permanent high-speed connection to the Internet, and am very capable of
> software maintenance.
>
> *Please* at least give us info on this topic. AW is lovely, and Id
> really love to go back. Im sure others would as well.
>
> Merc

Feb 8, 1999, 5:57pm

Andras,

Thanks for the info. Ill look into the Renderware situation.

After posting yetserday, I found facter's post on running the AWB under
WINE (the Windows emulator for Linux), and got it working partially.
However, the side-panels dont work, nor do the menus (and i cant seem
to get more than 16 or 256 colors, looks really awful.) I realise this
isnt AW's fault, but it still leaves me hungry for a native version.

Does anyone know where I could find info on the AWorld.ini format? If I
knew how to change avatars, etc from this file some of the menus being
inactive wouldnt be such a big deal.

Thanks again.

Merc

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Feb 8, 1999, 6:13pm

Unfortunately the aworld.ini does not contain info about the avatar selections (that one is embedded into the database cache since you have different avatars in each world). There are informations about the windows sizing and various settings like mmx driver, etc. I don't recall anything which can override the menu options. Maybe a few like your starting world, your settings selected within the Options/Settings menu item.
To be honest I never tried Linux on my machine (maybe I'm lazy?? because I'm a Unix fan) so I can't really tell what you need to port the browser under it but since I'm a programmer and I know some about the browser and Windows interaction I think it is not a simple job.
Anyway - I'm here to help as much as I can :o)
Andras


[View Quote] > Andras,
>
> Thanks for the info. Ill look into the Renderware situation.
>
> After posting yetserday, I found facter's post on running the AWB under
> WINE (the Windows emulator for Linux), and got it working partially.
> However, the side-panels dont work, nor do the menus (and i cant seem
> to get more than 16 or 256 colors, looks really awful.) I realise this
> isnt AW's fault, but it still leaves me hungry for a native version.
>
> Does anyone know where I could find info on the AWorld.ini format? If I
> knew how to change avatars, etc from this file some of the menus being
> inactive wouldnt be such a big deal.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Merc
>
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Feb 8, 1999, 8:31pm

What wine build did you use? 990131?

Anyway, did you REALLY READ fac's post? The problems you name are the same
that fac and I have. Anyway, they're very common bugs :(

--
Dean-Christian Strik ("Fluxen") -- dean2 at bigfoot.com -- ICQ #11760568
"Real programmers like vending machine popcorn. Coders pop it in the
microwave oven. Real programmers use the heat given off by the CPU. They can
tell what job is running just by listening to the rate of popping."


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Feb 9, 1999, 12:12am

[View Quote] > Andras,
>
> Thanks for the info. Ill look into the Renderware situation.
>
> After posting yetserday, I found facter's post on running the AWB under
> WINE (the Windows emulator for Linux), and got it working partially.
> However, the side-panels dont work, nor do the menus (and i cant seem
> to get more than 16 or 256 colors, looks really awful.) I realise this
> isnt AW's fault, but it still leaves me hungry for a native version.
>
> Does anyone know where I could find info on the AWorld.ini format? If I
> knew how to change avatars, etc from this file some of the menus being
> inactive wouldnt be such a big deal.
>

At present, I have an Active Worlds thread goign on in the WINE newsgroup,
there is more info in there comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine

But, remember something . .. WINE is constantly being written, what didnt
work one week, will work the next. . . there are already people debuggin AW
and have tried it out . ..all sorts of things are being patched . .. in
time, and with our input into the matter, then we never know what will be
possible. . .programs like Starcraft work perfectly, ones like fiablo dont
work at all . . ..it is a mattewr of time, and us testing everything out. .
..

It would be great, if Roland would implement command line functions ala IRC,
then, we would even bother to use the menu. . . ie /t aw would teleport you
to AW etc etc .. ..this would be SUCH a simple feature for roalnd to
implement, as the commands are already in use within the program....

So, anyways, keep testing it . . ..the main thing is IT WORKS. . . .it can
only get better =)


>
> Thanks again.
>
> Merc
>
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F

Feb 9, 1999, 12:14am

ps - the side tabs DO work, they are clickable through the displaced render
screen =)

[View Quote] > Andras,
>
> Thanks for the info. Ill look into the Renderware situation.
>
> After posting yetserday, I found facter's post on running the AWB under
> WINE (the Windows emulator for Linux), and got it working partially.
> However, the side-panels dont work, nor do the menus (and i cant seem
> to get more than 16 or 256 colors, looks really awful.) I realise this
> isnt AW's fault, but it still leaves me hungry for a native version.
>
> Does anyone know where I could find info on the AWorld.ini format? If I
> knew how to change avatars, etc from this file some of the menus being
> inactive wouldnt be such a big deal.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Merc
>
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Feb 9, 1999, 1:55pm

I resubbed to the wine ng.

--
Dean-Christian Strik ("Fluxen") -- dean2 at bigfoot.com -- ICQ #11760568
"Real programmers like vending machine popcorn. Coders pop it in the
microwave oven. Real programmers use the heat given off by the CPU. They can
tell what job is running just by listening to the rate of popping."

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