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Thanks!
You are welcome!
Hmm, about WINE it works-ish for me, but I think you need to also install the 'wine32' or 'wine:i386' package, you better check the Ubuntu forums/wiki about it.
No need to select a windows version.
Below are the wine and dink packages that aptitude says are of state i (meaning that the package is installed) on my 64 bit ubuntu 16.04 system. If the third character is A, the package was automatically installed.
Using the above installed packages, I've been able to run these versions of some common windoze Dink executables (and a small number of other .exe files not shown here) for a few years with minimal or no problems at at all.
So for 32bit windoze, I think I should be ready to go. That is why I suspected that the reason I could not run the v109.6 version of dink tools was my current lack of Windoze 64 bit support or maybe the attempt to use the "wrong" version of windows that WINE allows me to fake. But I guess from what you are telling me, there must be some other problem?
One more thing. I tried running these two .exe files with their associated supporting directory using a Windoze Vista partition I have not used in years and they both crashed on startup too.
FreeDink 109.6 is scheduled for Ubuntu "The Disco Dingo" (that's true!)
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freedink
Yes, I see. At present I'm stuck at 16.04 (not 19.04 Disco Dingo) because of a lack of support for my intel graphics card at high resolution. Well, I've not tried 19.04; but 18.04 forced me to use a much lower screen resolution than I'm still able to get with 16.04. Maybe 19.04 addressed that, but I doubt it. I'll see what I can find out about that.
Meanwhile you most probably can grab the binaries from Debian:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/freedink-engine
https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/freedink-engine/download
Hmmm. Perhaps I'll do that, in case v109.6 does not show up in my software updates soon for 64 bit unbuntu 16.04.
Or recompile. Or bug me into finishing this AppImage thing that would allow Dinkers to run the GNU/Linux version easily when I release it
Cool, that AppImage idea sounds great! The 3.8 megabyte windows .exe files in your gnu_freedink-109_6.zip are pretty big already, but hey, if they have to be even larger to run on all versions of linux, that is ok with me.
Thanks!
You are welcome!
Hmm, about WINE it works-ish for me, but I think you need to also install the 'wine32' or 'wine:i386' package, you better check the Ubuntu forums/wiki about it.
No need to select a windows version.
Below are the wine and dink packages that aptitude says are of state i (meaning that the package is installed) on my 64 bit ubuntu 16.04 system. If the third character is A, the package was automatically installed.
x@y:~$ /tmp/winedinkreport.sh installation status of wine packages (courtesy of aptitude search) i A wine-stable - WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows i A wine-stable-amd64 - WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows i A wine-stable-i386:i386 - WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows i winehq-stable - WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows i winetricks - Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (win versions for the wine related packages (courtesy of apt-cache show) package: wine-stable Latest Version: 3.0.4~xenial package: wine-stable-amd64 Latest Version: 3.0.4~xenial package: wine-stable-i386:i386 Latest Version: 3.0.4~xenial package: winehq-stable Latest Version: 3.0.4~xenial package: winetricks Latest Version: 0.0+20141009+svn1208-2ubuntu1 installation status of dink packages (courtesy of aptitude search) i A freedink - humorous top-down adventure and role-playi i A freedink-data - adventure and role-playing game (game data i freedink-dfarc - frontend and .dmod installer for GNU FreeD i A freedink-engine - humorous top-down adventure and role-playi versions for the dink related packages (courtesy of apt-cache show) package: freedink Latest Version: 108.4-1 package: freedink-data Latest Version: 1.08.20140901-1 package: freedink-dfarc Latest Version: 3.12-1+deb9u1build0.16.04.1 package: freedink-engine Latest Version: 108.4-1 x@y:~$
Using the above installed packages, I've been able to run these versions of some common windoze Dink executables (and a small number of other .exe files not shown here) for a few years with minimal or no problems at at all.
x@y:~/.wine32/drive_c/Program Files/Dink Smallwood$ \ls -l *exe -rwxrwxrwx 1 x x 1155072 Feb 25 2006 DFArc2.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 x x 2354176 Jun 5 2018 dfarc3.14.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 x x 2409984 Oct 16 2014 dfarc3.exe -rwxrwxrwx 1 x x 139264 Feb 25 2006 dinkedit.exe -rwxrwxrwx 1 x x 315392 Feb 25 2006 dink.exe -rwxrwxrwx 1 x x 48510 Nov 7 2015 Uninstall.exe -rwxrwxrwx 1 x x 196608 Jun 21 2003 WinDinkedit.exe -rwxrwxrwx 1 x x 2103808 Dec 13 2015 WinDinkeditPlus2.exe -rwxrwxrwx 1 x x 200704 Feb 17 2007 WinDinkeditPlus.exe x@y:~/.wine32/drive_c/Program Files/Dink Smallwood$
So for 32bit windoze, I think I should be ready to go. That is why I suspected that the reason I could not run the v109.6 version of dink tools was my current lack of Windoze 64 bit support or maybe the attempt to use the "wrong" version of windows that WINE allows me to fake. But I guess from what you are telling me, there must be some other problem?
One more thing. I tried running these two .exe files with their associated supporting directory using a Windoze Vista partition I have not used in years and they both crashed on startup too.
x@y:~/Downloads$ ls -l |grep freedink |grep -v txt|grep -v zip drwxr-xr-x 3 x x 4096 Feb 16 00:00 freedink -rwxr-xr-x 1 x x 3887104 Feb 16 00:00 freedinkedit.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 x x 3921408 Feb 16 00:00 freedink.exe x@y:~/Downloads$
FreeDink 109.6 is scheduled for Ubuntu "The Disco Dingo" (that's true!)
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freedink
Yes, I see. At present I'm stuck at 16.04 (not 19.04 Disco Dingo) because of a lack of support for my intel graphics card at high resolution. Well, I've not tried 19.04; but 18.04 forced me to use a much lower screen resolution than I'm still able to get with 16.04. Maybe 19.04 addressed that, but I doubt it. I'll see what I can find out about that.
Meanwhile you most probably can grab the binaries from Debian:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/freedink-engine
https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/freedink-engine/download
Hmmm. Perhaps I'll do that, in case v109.6 does not show up in my software updates soon for 64 bit unbuntu 16.04.
Or recompile. Or bug me into finishing this AppImage thing that would allow Dinkers to run the GNU/Linux version easily when I release it
Cool, that AppImage idea sounds great! The 3.8 megabyte windows .exe files in your gnu_freedink-109_6.zip are pretty big already, but hey, if they have to be even larger to run on all versions of linux, that is ok with me.
