Zandro/ST under Wine?

[Ænima]

Lately I've been running Zandronum under Wine (I'll explain why in a sec) and I had a few questions.

1. When I try to run the Zandronum build intended for Linux, nothing happens. Does anyone else have this problem?
2. What are the drawbacks to running Zandronum.exe in the Wine enviornment? From what I've observed, everything runs fine in OpenGL. However, software has some really weird bugs (any areas of solid black on the screen suddenly become HOMs, on both textures and sprites).
3. Has anyone else done this before or have any tips?

I'm running the latest Ubuntu, by the way.

[Konar6]

Are you running a 3.x kernel?

[Dark-Assassin]

Are you either trying to run an x86_64 build in a x64 environment or vice versa?

Try running it via the terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy+paste exactly what is printed in it.

Also, have you followed the tutorial in the wiki?
If so, have you followed it to an exact?
If not, it may help.

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Anyway, I've run 98a under WINE and it did seem to run fine, even in software mode, but that was on a much older laptop with an Intel Integrated Graphics Chip.
Currently for me as well, running Zandro, ST 98D or any other revision under WINE using the Software Render does glitch out as well.

[Catastrophe]

I've ran ST98D on wine before, all I noticed was random homs on software. However, I did not try opengl.

[Blzut3]

1. When I try to run the Zandronum build intended for Linux, nothing happens. Does anyone else have this problem?

So the real question is how to solve this issue? I guess you need to define "nothing happens." Run Zandronum from a terminal and see if you get any output. (If you installed the DRD Team packages just type zandronum at the terminal.)

2. What are the drawbacks to running Zandronum.exe in the Wine enviornment? From what I've observed, everything runs fine in OpenGL. However, software has some really weird bugs (any areas of solid black on the screen suddenly become HOMs, on both textures and sprites).

It's not really a supported why of running Zandronum so there's one draw back.

[Ænima]

cd'ing to the folder and doing "exec ./zandronum" results in the terminal closing and Zandronum not opening up or showing any activity at all.

[Dark-Assassin]

cd'ing to the folder and doing "exec ./zandronum" results in the terminal closing and Zandronum not opening up or showing any activity at all.

Try using this method.

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/usr/games/zandronum/zandronum > /home/<username>/zandro.log

This will write everything from the terminal to the file, it's handy even if the terminal crashes while trying to run something.

[Blzut3]

cd'ing to the folder and doing "exec ./zandronum" results in the terminal closing and Zandronum not opening up or showing any activity at all.

Are you using the deb packages? Which folder did you cd to? You shouldn't have to use exec, but I can get the terminal to close if I cd to usr/bin and exec the shell script called zandronum there. If you run the binary itself it shouldn't be able to close the terminal.

Edit: So I guess I should ask, did you install the iwads properly (where are they)?

[Ijon Tichy]

why did you exec? that replaces the instance of the shell with zandronum, so of course you won't see anything happen