Hi All,
On Thursday 30 August 2001 13:34, you wrote:
> Le 30 Ao�t 2001 03:57, vous avez �crit :
> > Hello!
> >
> > Before I start, I just want to say that I am a *total* newbie to Plex86
> > and this mailinglist.
>
> Welcome!
>
> > Anyway, I downloaded (does the plex86 site actually get updated?):
>
> Good point, there should be an update to the website, at least to say that
> the project is still alive... And it made some fantastic progress since
> May.
>
If anyone wants a more recent tarball, you can look at:
"ftp:/ftp.plex86.org". Under the directory "source-tarballs" there is a
snapshot of the last CVS checkout that I was able to compile. It's much more
recent than the May Alpha, but starting to get a little dated. I asked the
Webmasters to link to this when I started maintaining snapshots, but nothing
happened. *sigh*. Kevin asked me to maintain these tarballs, which I am doing
whenever the top of the CVS repo compiles (it doesn't right now).
> > plex86-2001-0302-1106.tar.gz
> > bochs-2000_0325a.tar.gz
>
> I don't know about Bochs, but Plex86 has changed a lot since then... You'll
> be happier with the CVS
>
> [snip compile log]
> There is obviously a file #included twice. Rewind. Try the CVS version.
>
> > I want to use Plex86 ASAP to play Age of Empires in Linux.
> > Does anyone know why it doesn't compile?
>
> Yeouch! I'm not sure AT ALL you'll be able to use Plex86 with AoE right
> now. Your best bet is with Wine, I guess... You can still try using Plex86,
> and if it ever works, send some screenshots! That would be really great to
> put on the website! Remember, Plex86 is currently VGA, and Windows 98
> incompatible.
>
Are you sure about the Win98 incompatibility? I thought Willow put in a patch
for that a while back. The main problem is lack of support for disk
partitions and the impracticality of creating a Win98 disk image (*big*) as
well as the illegality of distributing same. Anyway, AoE (and most other
games) requires DirectX, which is most definitely NOT supported for VGA only
displays, so even if Win98 would run, George still couldn't run AoE under
Plex86.
> > Thanks in advance,
> > George
>
> EL
