Computer Science Canada

Turing runs on Linux!

Author:  DaVe g [ Mon Oct 11, 2004 6:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Turing runs on Linux!

I am running Mandrake 10.1 and I tested turing on wine, and yes it installs, and runs perfectly. Razz

I'm so happy....

Author:  Genesis [ Mon Oct 11, 2004 6:48 pm ]
Post subject: 

Ya, it works with Wine on Suse too. (Also, I think there was already a topic about this somewhere else that Dan started a little while ago...)

Author:  Dan [ Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:23 am ]
Post subject: 

yep wine is gr8 and so is linux Wink

Author:  timmytheturtle [ Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:12 pm ]
Post subject: 

I want linux but me computer is shit. I tried to install PHLAK but my computer kept freezing up. Im going to try suse as soon as i download it. What is wine? were can I get it? how do I install it?

Author:  Genesis [ Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:49 pm ]
Post subject: 

Wine is a program that lets you run Windows apps in Linux. It should come with your copy of Suse. I think mine did.

(If not you can download it here. Installing is just a matter of unpacking the RPM and using Yast. Which will become clear when you start using Linux.)

Author:  wtd [ Tue Oct 12, 2004 5:13 pm ]
Post subject: 

Basically, the Win32 API contains a lot of basic functionality that every GUI application needs. Rather than writing all of this code from scratch, programmers use that API to save time.

Your program wants to open a window, it tells the Win32 libraries to open a window for it.

Linux uses several different APIs for GUI applications, but not Win32. By default, if you try to run a Windows application on Linux and it largely fails because the system can't handle those requests.

WINE steps in by giving the system a means of answering those requests. It doesn't emulate the computer like VMWare or VirtualPC, but just the API calls, translating Win32 API requests to something the system's own libraries can handle.

Author:  timmytheturtle [ Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:03 pm ]
Post subject: 

Thanks, I no longer can put Suse or any other linux distro on my computer cause my one drive is dead(10gb) and my other drive is too small(1.62gb) to fit a good distro on there(suse, knoppix,etc..). So for now im stuck using winxp.

Author:  r0ssar00 [ Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:09 pm ]
Post subject: 

i saw the title and said no sh*t sherlock

Author:  Hikaru79 [ Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:23 am ]
Post subject: 

r0ssar00 wrote:
i saw the title and said no sh*t sherlock


Keep digging, Watson. Confused It's a Windows-based program so running it on all distributions of Linux is not obvious.

As for me, I'm having some troubles =/ Running Debian over here, and I tried to WINE it. Goes into installshield wizard fine, but halfway through it reports that "Failed to exract file "DLL_INI" from the binary table."

Any ideas? Confused I miss the good ol' days of Turing.... Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad

Author:  wtd [ Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:30 am ]
Post subject: 

Hikaru79 wrote:
r0ssar00 wrote:
i saw the title and said no sh*t sherlock


Keep digging, Watson. Confused It's a Windows-based program so running it on all distributions of Linux is not obvious.

As for me, I'm having some troubles =/ Running Debian over here, and I tried to WINE it. Goes into installshield wizard fine, but halfway through it reports that "Failed to exract file "DLL_INI" from the binary table."

Any ideas? Confused I miss the good ol' days of Turing.... Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad


Learn a language that runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FReeBSD, etc. equally well. Smile

Author:  Atma Weapon [ Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:44 am ]
Post subject: 

wtd wrote:
Hikaru79 wrote:
r0ssar00 wrote:
i saw the title and said no sh*t sherlock


Keep digging, Watson. Confused It's a Windows-based program so running it on all distributions of Linux is not obvious.

As for me, I'm having some troubles =/ Running Debian over here, and I tried to WINE it. Goes into installshield wizard fine, but halfway through it reports that "Failed to exract file "DLL_INI" from the binary table."

Any ideas? Confused I miss the good ol' days of Turing.... Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad


Learn a language that runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FReeBSD, etc. equally well. Smile


Python? Wink

Author:  Martin [ Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:48 am ]
Post subject: 

Assembly.

Author:  wtd [ Sun Oct 17, 2004 3:14 am ]
Post subject: 

Atma Weapon wrote:
wtd wrote:
Hikaru79 wrote:
r0ssar00 wrote:
i saw the title and said no sh*t sherlock


Keep digging, Watson. Confused It's a Windows-based program so running it on all distributions of Linux is not obvious.

As for me, I'm having some troubles =/ Running Debian over here, and I tried to WINE it. Goes into installshield wizard fine, but halfway through it reports that "Failed to exract file "DLL_INI" from the binary table."

Any ideas? Confused I miss the good ol' days of Turing.... Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad


Learn a language that runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FReeBSD, etc. equally well. Smile


Python? Wink


Ruby
Perl
SmartEiffel
GNAT (Ada 95)
C
C++
Java
Pascal

Author:  Hikaru79 [ Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:05 pm ]
Post subject: 

I do... I know Java Razz Notice the last line of my post was

Quote:
Any ideas? Confused I miss the good ol' days of Turing.... Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad


Even though I've moved on, it would still be nice to play around on Turing every once in a while, help out all my grade 10 friends Very Happy

Author:  Hikaru79 [ Sat Oct 23, 2004 10:54 pm ]
Post subject: 

Hate to double-post but I think this is something that should be brought to everyone's attention Smile If your base WINE doesn't work on Turing (as it didn't for mine), get your hands on a copy of CodeWeaver's "CrossOver Office" and install it as an unsupported application. Worked for me! Smile I'm now doing Turing on Linux. w00t! ^__^

Author:  Leftover [ Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:54 pm ]
Post subject: 

Both don't work for me Sad

Edit >> When I try to install it, it goes slow untill about 40% of the installer, then busts up to 99% and crashes I guess, really confusing me, I really kinda need this workin.

Author:  templest [ Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:24 am ]
Post subject: 

It's installed. Go to your folder where it was installed "/home/$user/fake_c/program files/ect...", and run "wine turing.exe".


: