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I hope the opening of the forum means the Linux version will come very soon.

I remember BW speaking of ubuntu 7.04 as the test env for them.

Was there any other tested system ?

Happy to be the first Linux poster

Unfortunately, no. We only have Ubuntu here in the Lair so I have never seen it run on anything else.

I will probably post the beta demo right here in this thread later this week and let you guys play around with it- tell me what I need to do to prepare it for the Linux market.

As soon as it comes, I will install it. I have a Dapper currently running and I had planned to install 7.04 on my second hard drive so I will start it tongith to be ready in case it does not run on Dapper.

I have openSuse 10.2 here to test it on.

I can test on Ubuntu 7.10 (newest, who cares about those older releases! )

install VMWare and you can run any version you want to test it on BW

Necromis wrote:install VMWare and you can run any version you want to test it on BW

Unfortunately not, since you need 3d acceleration to be able to play Eschalon. VMWare does not have that, so you won't be able to play Eschalon in VMWare.

VMWare Fusion on the Mac has basic 3D support. I've successfully ran Eschalon in Windows XP via this method (a bit slowly but it runs). When the linux demo comes out I'll give a try, but I'm not sure if Fusion has 3D support for linux. To be honest I haven't cared to look, I only boot my Debian VM when absolutely needed.

We now see one of the perils of trying to release a commercial linux product such as a game, there are so many distributions and variables that it's impossible to be assured your product will run in all the different situations. Hopefully it runs well, and I'll expect that all those linux folks out there that have been CLAMORING for a commercial game release with linux support will be over here buying a copy.

Ready to test on Gentoo Linux!

I expect very, very few problems at all. As nearly any Linux user with a little experience will tell you, at their heart, all the Linux distros are the same(ie. same/similar kernel). The differences come of course when you have the various distros adding their own "special" patches to the kernels instead of using "vanilla" sources. Yes, there are obviously hardware differences as well...NVidia or ATI? However, I believe that BlitzMax(the language used to program Eschalon) does a great job of taking these differences into account. Time will tell of course, but I know I *like* having a choice of which distro I use. There *must* be something great about Unix/Linux since Mac OSX is based off a BSD Unix kernel. Anyway, I am not concerned about having problems getting Eschalon to run and you can bet that after trying the demo, I will be PURCHASING the full version of this wonderful game!