UltraHal for Linux

[Art]

This subject has been discussed several times in the past.

UltraHal was not, and most likely will not be written for
Linux (regardless of flavor).

There are many .dll files and registry entries that Hal
uses to run. I'm not sure exactly how WINE would handle
these but I'd bet, not too well.

I've tried in the past just for kicks on Mandrake and
more recently Ubuntu and neither was successful.

It is what it is.

[vampyre2000]

Hi

Many thanks to all the responses so far.
As I have said I have been following UltraHAL for many years now.
I have also seen various requests in the past to get Ultra Hal working on Linux.

Short of Ultra Hal being ported to Linux native code (I wish, but unlikely) WINE is the next best bet.

What I am looking for is other Linux users who would Like to run Ultra Hal on their system of choice.
WINE is a system to allow Windows programs to run on Linux.
It does this intercepting the system calls made by Windows programs to Windows dll's and runs the corresponding Linux System call.

WINE has made leaps and bounds in the last few years.
Currently many people run World Of Warcraft on WINE (my brother included) If this program runs I do not see any issue on getting Ultra HAL working on WINE.

The point of this thread is to pool our Knowledge to try and get Ultra Hal working. I have added my efforts to the WINE Application database.
I will also raise bug requests to the WINE devs where I find problems.

Please no reponses that it will never work. You may be right, but that should not stop people from trying.

One thing that is aa real possibility is the WINE development environment. What this does is when Ultra HAL is compiled from source instead of using the windows Dlls etc, it is compiled against the WINE libraries. This does two things, one it has a greater chance of running on windows and Linux without modification and two makes it easier to find any bugs in WINE code.

This was done by Google and others to get programs working on Linux
See Google Picassa as an example.

Anyway All other Linux users, Lets see if we can pool our knowledge together and get Ultra HAl working on Linux

[loungedaddy]

quote:
Anyway All other Linux users, Lets see if we can pool our knowledge together and get Ultra HAl working on Linux

Word. I'll keep checking back here, and tinkering with Ultra Hal in WINE.

[DrFaraday]

I posted a thread on this topic a while back.  I reached the same point as the rest of you; almost got it working, but no response to typing.

I took it as far as I could; I don't know how to take it any further.  I'm a Linux user, not a programmer/coder.  But I'm watching this thread with interest, in case anyone else makes more progress.  It would be really super to have Ultra HAL on Linux.

BTW, I have gotten Ultra HAL to work in an XP virtual machine (Virtual Box) on Ubuntu Linux. Right now that's the only option I can see for a Linux user.

- Chaz

[vampyre2000]

Hi Again
My update on my latest test of UltraHal on Linux.
This time I am using the following setup
Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit version
WINE wine-1.1.24
UltraHal 6.2

I am sorry to say, But still no real progress.
Ultra Hal installs with errors.
He speaks, but does not accept keyboard input.

Well until the next version :-)

[loungedaddy]

I tried installing with Cedega. Nothing yet.

So far I installed it, and received one "missing dll" notice (msvbvm60.dll). Now there is an unspecified error and it is crashing before even loading.

At least on the face of it, UH seems to fare better in WINE.

[moreis62]

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[registrychecker]

I also tried to install it with Fedora and have had no success.

[roganlors]

I have UltraHal Assistant installed on an Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit desktop with Oracle VM VirtualBox V3.2.4 supporting a WinXP SP3 image.... just make sure you do not use the Forticlient Firewall as this will break Hal and IE8 on a Hal Install

Yes you can have the BEST of BOTH worlds ... LOL