Paul Summitt wrote:
> Probably discussed elsewhere but was just wondering if there had ever 
> been a Linux port of CyberBoard?

No. Work had been started on porting for such a FOSS version but the 
lack of experienced C++/GUI programmers pretty much stalled progress 
(only one person has been able to contribute the lion's share of the 
effort). The amount of work to port the C++ Windows GUI code from MFC 
and XtremeToolKit has been daunting.

The current version will run under Wine. Also, VirtualBox works very 
well for running CyberBoard. I've also run it under VMWare server on 
Linux but I've been gravitating to VirtualBox of late.

I'm exploring other ways to open source CyberBoard with the 
XtremeToolKit dependency removed and relying on a newer version of MFC 
to move the program into the future. At least those tools are widely 
available to Windows programmers.

A side benefit of that approach is that I have real-time play partially 
implemented using the excellent RakNet multi-player toolkit. RakNet 
provides a license for open source software.

http://www.jenkinssoftware.com/raknet/index.html

Dale

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