alekso Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 Hello all, is there any software that can be use under Linux for BBO ? thanks, Alekso Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vang Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 maybe not the answer you are expecting, but it works just fine with vmware... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 I'm going to echo Vang's suggestion: I've just started using VMWare to create a virtual Windows machine on a Linux box. BBO seems quite happy. The solution is not perfect, however, the major drawbacks seem to be related to the horsepower of my PC rather than any theoretical problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FurubiS Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 I try with winex and i connect to the server but not possible play, because timeout (sorry for my poor english). However i try with the version cvs. Version with support Transgaming ( build .rpm ) is better imho. FurubiShttp://www.transgaming.com/images/shots/bg2_winex2_thumb.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naj Posted June 14, 2004 Report Share Posted June 14, 2004 I try with winex and i connect to the server but not possible play, because timeout (sorry for my poor english). However i try with the version cvs. Version with support Transgaming ( build .rpm ) is better imho. FurubiSThere seems to be a problem with wine and networking applications which use winsock.dll (sorry, at first I wrote netsock, which is bogus).See http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1882Hopefully it gets fixed soon.OTOH, wouldn't a native linux version be possible? Cheerio, Jan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted June 14, 2004 Report Share Posted June 14, 2004 OTOH, wouldn't a native linux version be possible? Cheerio, Jan A native Linux version is definitely possible. It shouln't be too difficult to reverse engineer the communications protocols. Personally, I'd love to have one available.I nominate you to write it. Please let me know when I can download the finished product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naj Posted June 14, 2004 Report Share Posted June 14, 2004 A native Linux version is definitely possible. It shouln't be too difficult to reverse engineer the communications protocols. Personally, I'd love to have one available.I nominate you to write it. Please let me know when I can download the finished product.Well, perhaps it would be easier using bbo's source code. Then one wouldn't have to guess theprotocol. The other approach would be to try to compile the windows source using wine. Would it be possible to get either a description of the communitation protocol or a look into the source? And sarcasm isn't all that helpful... Cheerio, Jan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted June 14, 2004 Report Share Posted June 14, 2004 And sarcasm isn't all that helpful... Cheerio, Jan Sorry about that. You're right. It was uncalled for. I've had "this" conversation a couple times with Fred. In particular, I have tried to convince Fred that it would be worthwhile to define a standard interface between the client and server. I wrote a piece for the Bridge World a few years ago in which I argued that Online Bridge services could be decomposed into three different layers 1. The bridge server2. The graphical user interface3. Regulatory authorities I argued that integrating these layers would detract from end user value. I prefered a solution in which a given GUI could interface with a variety of different servers. In a similar fashion, an organization like the ACBL could run tournaments on a variety of different servers. Furthermore, I suggested that Zonal organizations like the ACBL should not directly enter the Online Bridge market. Rather, the best course of action for them would be to try to facilitate the development of common standards. I've talked to a number of the "players" in online bridge. From my perspective, Fred has by far the most comprehensive vision regarding how Online Bridge and BBO can evolve over time. I've made a concious decision to stop pushing this issue and wait and see how things develop. I've been pleasantly surprised on a number of occasions so far, and hope to be so again. In the short term, I'm happy to play arround with third party solutions like vmWare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didier17 Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 BBO is record in the wine application database:http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=1830 You can go to this site, login and vote for this application. If we are enough, may be the patch will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerardo Posted November 12, 2004 Report Share Posted November 12, 2004 3.9.2 doesn't work under wine nor cedega here ( cedega worked till 3.9.0) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QweZaq Posted November 13, 2004 Report Share Posted November 13, 2004 3.9.2 under Cedega works fine here (Mandrake 10.0), except the places IE is used to show html-pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerardo Posted November 13, 2004 Report Share Posted November 13, 2004 thx! which version of cedega? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QweZaq Posted November 14, 2004 Report Share Posted November 14, 2004 CVS from about a month ago. I used the GetCVSWineX-script from this page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerardo Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 Installed X.org packages from Ubuntu/hoary, instead of old XFree86 ones. Now 3.9.2+ works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrialBid Posted November 25, 2004 Report Share Posted November 25, 2004 I'm delighted to find this thread here. I've been trying to make NetBridgeVu.exe run under wine and I've been getting tantalizingly close. A note I've not seen elsewhere here: to run NetBridgeVu.exe 3.9.3 with standard wine, you must have WINEDLLOVERRIDES='atl=n' to execute at all. Wine bug 1882 seems to be the barrier we are all waiting to get through. Transgaming's version gets past this problem but seems to have trouble with symbol fonts. So I'm holding out for seeing this run under plain-old-wine. If you are just looking to display hands that the "myhands" pages or your hard disk archives have (the .lin files), here is a perl script I use to invoke NetBridgeVu.exe to display a .lin. For that purpose it works fine under wine. You must save this file on your machine, chmod it as +x and then (if using mozilla or firefox) when you click on a .lin file, you can answer "Open with" and browse to where you saved the file. You'll need to change the imbedded paths to where you have BBO and your temp files. #!/usr/bin/perlopen OUT,">/home/steve/tmp/bbo.log";print OUT scalar @ARGV,join "~",@ARGV;close OUT;system 'WINEDLLOVERRIDES="atl=n" /usr/local/bin/wine \'C:\\Bridge Base Online\\NetBridgeVu.exe\' '.join(' ',@ARGV);system 'rm -f '.join(' ',@ARGV); Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QweZaq Posted November 25, 2004 Report Share Posted November 25, 2004 The font problem under WineX is easy to solve: search google for symbol.ttf and place it in fake_c/windows/Fonts. Lars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoob Posted November 26, 2004 Report Share Posted November 26, 2004 http://www.codeweavers.com/site/compatibil.../cat?app_id=780 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerardo Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 Uday did some *preliminary* work on the network code, so BBO can run under Wine.It works!!!!!!! :huh: It is not yet release quality code, but stay tuned for next releases. Symbol.ttf stil needed, embedded browser doesn't work (news page, and some other things)under 20050930 (what I tested). Thanks Uday! Gerardo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulH Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 Excellent news :P Thank you for your efforts Uday! I can hardly wait for the new release as BBO is the last application that I use windows for. Will be nice to start just calling into BBO when I feel like it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerardo Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Install 450beta , then install the contents of this in the proper directory, and use them to start BBO. Works under Wine, better than Cedega (toolbar at bottom, more pleasant fonts IMO, etc) Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uday Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Things I disabled . lobby news. text->speech When Fred returns, no doubt he'll take another look at this. Meanwhile, you can report issues here and maybe I'll be able to fix them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uday Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 Here is a short HOWTO from Pierre Couzy (pico on BBO) HowTo : install bbo on linux 1/ Go to www.winehq.com and download wine if you don't have it on your system already. 2/ Grab a copy of Symbol.ttf. You'll need this font to properly display the suit symbols. Copy it in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/symbol (you'll have to manually create the symbol folder) 3/ Download bbo_setup.exe (http://www.bridgebase.com/450beta/bbo450_setup.exe as the time of writing, but I guess the normal version will work pretty soon) 4/ Launch a terminal and type : wine bbo_setup.exe (bbo450_setup.exe if you're using the beta version). This will launch the installer. Proceed as if you were installing under Windows. 5/ Grab the patched executable (again, this step might be useless in the next version of bbo) at http://www.bridgebase.com/450beta/LinuxNetBridgeVue.zip Unpack it, you'll get an executable file, copy it to ~/.wine/drive_c/Bridge\ Base\ Online 6/ Launch the executable from a shell : wine NetBridgeVu.exe (or LinuxNetBridgeVue.exe for the next weeks). In case you don't find the executable, it's located in ~/.wine/drive_c/WhateverFolderYouUsedForTheInstall 7/ You're done. Caveat : Monitor the free memory on your system when playing, you might have to quit and re-launch bbo from time to time, there are some memory leaks probably due to Wine. On my machine (PIII 700, 384 Mo, Ubuntu) I have to do this about every hour.If you have a problem, you can contact me on BBO (pico) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulH Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Thanks for all the great work people. :unsure: I am now enjoying watching Bermuda Bowl Vugraph. PCLinuxOS, Athlon XP 1700, Wine 2050725 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didier17 Posted October 28, 2005 Report Share Posted October 28, 2005 ♥♥♥ good news :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulH Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 The Wine Applications Database for BBO is now working properly it can be accessed at http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=1830 It would be really useful if those using BBO under wine can put any testing data and/or problems there. Big thanks to Steve Hollingsworth for helping me in making the information there make sense. I can't take the :D off my face since I've had BBO running under GNU/Linux Anyone having problems getting started can leave me a message for PaulH or e-mail at paul_in_uk2@yahoo.co.uk :) :) :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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