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Posted November 22, 2010
Sorry, when this is too off topic, but I try my luck in this forum as I expect quite a lot of "older" and experienced installers/configurators who might help me.

Years ago, I play a cool kids game "De Blob" on my Windows 2000 computer. Since several years, I don't have Windows installed anymore as most of the games I like are Linux native or work with Wine. But so far, I wasn't able to get DeBlob running on my Ubuntu machine. Perhaps somebody else here had some luck?
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Posted November 22, 2010
Why not run it in an emulator? Are emulators still scary for people? I honestly don't know. At any rate, virtualbox.org should have you covered, and for free to boot.
Posted November 22, 2010
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orcishgamer: Why not run it in an emulator? Are emulators still scary for people?
That'd be Wine, except that Wine stands for "WINE Is Not an Emulator ".
De game is gemaakt met de engines Ogre voor graphics, FMOD voor audio en ODE voor physics en collision detection.
That doesn't seem too exotic.

I can't give it a try right now, but Ogre has both Direct3D and OpenGL implementations, and OpenGL is perfectly supported on Wine . If there's a way to switch to OpenGL (perhaps somewhere in the configuration files), that may do the trick.
Post edited November 22, 2010 by Syniurge
Posted November 22, 2010
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orcishgamer: Why not run it in an emulator? Are emulators still scary for people?
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Syniurge: That'd be Wine, except that Wine stands for "WINE Is Not an Emulator ".
De game is gemaakt met de engines Ogre voor graphics, FMOD voor audio en ODE voor physics en collision detection.
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Syniurge: That doesn't seem too exotic.

I can't give it a try right now, but Ogre has both Direct3D and OpenGL implementations, and OpenGL is perfectly supported on Wine . If there's a way to switch to OpenGL (perhaps somewhere in the configuration files), that may do the trick.
I know I said emulator but really I'm advocating an actual virtual machine. WINE is fine in cases, but it's arcane and doesn't always work. You can run a complete Win 2000 Pro install in virtualbox.
Posted November 22, 2010
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outcast1: "De Blob"
So THATS what it was called! Thanks, i had this game on my mind for the last couple of days, and every time i got to the computer, i forgot to google.

I'm sorry i can't help You, though!:\
Posted November 25, 2010

I know I said emulator but really I'm advocating an actual virtual machine. WINE is fine in cases, but it's arcane and doesn't always work. You can run a complete Win 2000 Pro install in virtualbox.
I can't run Virtual Box because I don't have Windows (which I would need to boot in VirtualBox). Also: it should run by just clicking 1 icon as I wan't to configure it for my kids. (As I do for other Windows apps that run with Wine).

I also think, that it might run with wine and that I just don't know what kind of libraries are missing.

BTW: just found the homepage of the lead programmer - with images of new Blob Version for the Wii and DS: www.oogst3d.net/


UPDATE:
Yahoo! Finally got it to run! The main problem was Ogre: I had to split a file in two files and rename the new file with template definitions so that it is in a "higher order" of all other file names. As it took me several hours to find this out, I created a new entry in WineHQ database.

Sorry for OT, again!
Post edited November 26, 2010 by outcast1
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