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« on: June 01, 2009, 03:19:51 am »
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