Don't trouble yourself Martin..unless anyone else wants the stuff...
I just took an early lunch and tried it out at home and it worked staright
off!!
...but yep, only root can run it, so I probably need that 3dfx module to
run glide as non root.
did you notice a bit of an odd screen size??????...I should've checked to
see what res it was running in..prolly just need to adjust my monitor
disp[lay size or something.
Al.
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On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Martin White wrote:
> Okay,
>
> I should have known i was asking for that one !!
>
> I got it installed after an evening of RPM installing and package building.
> I can't remember exactly how or where at the moment - i'm at work, but at
> home i have all the instrauctions printed off including the URLs.
>
> Basically there are Glide libraries for Linux and a 3Dfx module (if you want
> to run a Glide app as non-root). Once you have those installed and built,
> wine pretty much just ran it. I don't remember having to do any more
> configuration than just the normal drive locations in the wine config (it
> was the first time i'd ever used wine - previous attempts two years ago had
> been pretty fruitless).
>
> The more i think about where i got this stuff from the more i think that it
> MUST have been reliant on a 3Dfx graphics card. I'll get hold of the URLs
> and post them tommorrow.
>
> Martin.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alex Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 12:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] UltraHLE & Wine
>
>
> >
> > Martin White, you have just made my day (and held back my thesis
> > writing for the time being!)
> > (I have UltraHLE working a treat in win95)
> >
> > ...so let me get this straight... the 3d acceleration actually works with
> > wine......... do you have to configure wine to use the linux Messa GL
> > drivers or does it use the ones on windows??????...or does it just all
> > magicaly work if you just run it??
> >
> > you say "it took some installing"...do you mean for wine or UltraHLE???
> >
> > I'd love to hear any tips you have to get it working!
> >
> > Al.
> >
> > --------------
> > On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Martin White wrote:
> >
> > > Don't know if you're interested as it is a little bit of a dodgy subject
> at
> > > the moment ;-), but UltraHLE - that infamous N64 emulator works
> flawlessly
> > > under Wine (well for me anyway). I was absolutely gobsmacked when i saw
> it
> > > working!!
> > >
> > > I will say tho, it took some installing - you MUST have a Glide
> compatible
> > > card (3Dfx recommended), plus a pretty wazzy spec machine - i run a V3
> in a
> > > PIII 128Mb ram machine. But for your pains you get stuff like Zelda -
> > > Ocarina of time running FASTER and SMOOTHER than under Windows !!
> > >
> > > Martin.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
