The Powder Toy

I got ubuntu!

  • Made2Shred     23rd Dec 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    singularity

    wine is a windows emulator. it means u can run .exe files. it have the basic dlls for windows.
  • singularity     23rd Dec 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    OMGZ THANKS GUYS!
  • Made2Shred     23rd Dec 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    singularity

    also register on the forums. questions are answered in like 5 mins
  • singularity     23rd Dec 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Soooo how do I run the linux version of powder toy.

    and I installed wine and it didn't work i get this error every time i try to run the windows version of tpt


    Archive: /home/Nikolai/.cache/.fr-f813qN/powder-sse3.exe
    [/home/nikolai/.cache/.fr-f813qN/powder-sse3.exe]
    End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
    a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
    latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
    the last disk(s) of this archive.
    zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/Nikolai/.cache/.fr-f813qN/powder-sse3.exe or
    /home/nikolai/.cache/.fr-f813qN/powder-sse3.exe.zip, and cannot find /home/nikolai/.cache/.fr-f813qN/powder-sse3.exe.ZIP, period.


    I don't under stand!
  • yew101     23rd Dec 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    singularity
    compile it on linux....
    https://powdertoy.co.uk/Wiki.html?id=building_in_linux
    (i will post the faster way to get source than in guide)
    here it is: https://github.com/FacialTurd/The-Powder-Toy
  • Felix     23rd Dec 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Wine is not an emulator ...

    Also, why would he need to compile? The executable ought to work just fine.
  • plypencil     23rd Dec 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Felix:
    Wine is not an emulator ...

    Wine is an emulator, it takes the instructions from a exe and converts it to something which can run in Linux.

    Works exactly the same as a console emulator.
  • Felix     23rd Dec 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    plypencil
    http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-c9e6502ad636315e905d07f7e44594757a6738e3

    And no, it doesn't work the same way as a console emulator does.
  • Merbo     23rd Dec 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Well, I had a problem like that on kubuntu... Get a .deb file.
  • plypencil     23rd Dec 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Felix
    "Wine is not just an emulator"

    It works in precisely the same way, except wine then does stuff in addition, instead of using the windows os it uses its own binary loaders. So no it is not a traditional emulator, but is still an emulator.

    An emulator in computer sciences duplicates (provides an emulation of) the functions of one system using a different system, so that the second system behaves like (and appears to be) the first system Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator
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