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Ethos
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Playing under Linux
« on: Oct 16th, 2005, 3:28am » |
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Is there anybody that uses Flash under Linux to play? I can play but I don't see text of pop-up windows (like when you win/lose), nor do I see any clock.
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Ethos
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Re: Playing under Linux
« Reply #1 on: Oct 16th, 2005, 5:01am » |
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Never mind, I was missing some ghost-script font package.
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Re: Playing under Linux
« Reply #2 on: Oct 16th, 2005, 5:54am » |
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Thanks for posting the solution. I have the same issue when playing on linux - now I will download Ghostscript font sometime!!
BTW how did you figure out what the problem was??
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Ethos
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Re: Playing under Linu
« Reply #3 on: Oct 16th, 2005, 6:07am » |
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I did a search on the Debian-user mailing list. I don't know what Linux distribution you have, but the package was "GS fonts for X11" as opposed to just GS fonts.
Sometimes Linux can be so frustrating!
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Re: Playing under Linux
« Reply #4 on: Oct 16th, 2005, 6:15pm » |
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Debian 
It works, It works!!!
Thankyou thankyou.
Now we just need to find a way to prevent the 20ish move crash. Have you experienced that yet?
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Re: Playing under Linux
« Reply #5 on: Oct 16th, 2005, 6:43pm » |
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on Oct 16th, 2005, 6:15pm, 99of9 wrote:| Now we just need to find a way to prevent the 20ish move crash. Have you experienced that yet? |
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I don't know if this is what you're talking about, but my browser crashes randomly when playing. Sometimes i can go a week without crashes, and sometimes its 10 crashes a day. Anyway i found that opera crashes a LOT less than firefox.
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Re: Playing under Linux
« Reply #6 on: Oct 18th, 2005, 11:04am » |
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I found that the number of crashes goes down conciderably under Opera. Unfortunatly Opera over caches some of the pop up windows, no big deal unless I want to watch games. So I use Opera for playing and Firefox for watching. Opera is now avaiable for Linux for gratis
BTW Omra: Is there any way to build a Java client? Since Linux is a first class platform for Java, and a thrid class platform for flash. I am a Java coder so I could help. Plus helping would likely give me a start on writing a Java bot. I have discovered the joys of gabage collect for doing AI programming, I really do not want to go back to C.
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Re: Playing under Linux
« Reply #7 on: Oct 19th, 2005, 3:17pm » |
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on Oct 16th, 2005, 6:15pm, 99of9 wrote:
Now we just need to find a way to prevent the 20ish move crash. Have you experienced that yet? |
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I think this is just a warning message that Flash gives if HTTP connections are kept open. I've been experimenting with XMLSockets in Flash and I think this will go away once I chance the client to use them.
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Re: Playing under Linux
« Reply #8 on: Oct 19th, 2005, 5:13pm » |
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On many systems it's much more than a warning - it totally crashes the browser.
But I think you're right, it occurs at a similar time to the warning produced by other systems.
Good to hear you're working on a solution.
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Re: Playing under Linux
« Reply #9 on: Oct 20th, 2005, 9:18am » |
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Is this somehow related to the "invisible pieces" issues? I hadn't been bitten by that bug for a while, but it happened to me last night that Gnobot's camel was invisible when the board loaded up. When I had enough reserve I quit out of the browser and reloaded, which fixed the problem.
Fortunately I will switch back to high-speed Internet in about a week, and then the issues will go away or be irrelevant because of quick reloads.
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Re: Playing under Linux
« Reply #10 on: Oct 21st, 2005, 4:50pm » |
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The invisible pieces problem is due to low bandwidth connections. After the client starts it issues a lot of requests to load the board and piece images. Sometimes some of the images don't load although it seems to the program that they did. In the next version I am going to bundle the images into the Flash client so they don't need to be loaded seperately. It's a little less flexible if I want to change the images, but avoids the invisible pieces problem.
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Re: Playing under Linux
« Reply #11 on: Oct 21st, 2005, 6:03pm » |
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Thanks for the explanation about the inviso-camel. It's good to know it won't be a problem for me in the championship when I upgrade to broadband.
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Re: Playing under Linux
« Reply #12 on: Oct 25th, 2005, 6:19am » |
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If you have SBC in your area you can get a good deal on a broadband connection; it's only about $15 per month. My dad recently got that at his place and it felt as good as my cable connection when I tried it.
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Re: Playing under Linux
« Reply #13 on: Nov 3rd, 2005, 6:03am » |
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Flash runs well in linux. But it crashes abraptly sometimes around 18-20 move.
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Re: Playing under Linux
« Reply #14 on: Nov 3rd, 2005, 1:31pm » |
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An SVG client would be cool too.
There should soon be the efficient Renesis SVG plugins for most browsers on most OS - they announce a preview release in a couple of weeks now. It would be a bit better than Flash.
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