Spring RTS Engine

When i run TA:Spring it looks all weird and I don't see any units.
Do I need the original TA to play the game?

Maybe you could be more explicit on what you are using/from where did you get it and what you are seeing.

A screenshot would help also... (I can try to help with linux related problems, but there are many that can help you with windows ones)

well im not really good at describing things, but here's a pic:

Did you see "Waiting for connections. Press return to start" ?

If not press return anyway and see what happens.

You're not by chance still running Windows 98 are you?

*insert AF's usual humongous rant about how you're guaranteed to fail if you put spring and 98 togetehr and a laoda thigns about you should upgrade, these are terrible excuses for sticking with 98 etc*

now that i think of it, i am running win98

guess ill have to upgrade soon

Unfortunately the no units bit is a classic sign of Win98 and Spring...

If you don't have XP you could try running linux+wine.

will Red Hat Linux ver 9 work?

No, and there is no official Spring version for Linux.
I would suggest Win2000 if you just like to play Spring and are migrating from Win98.

Tim Blokdijk wrote:No, and there is no official Spring version for Linux.
I would suggest Win2000 if you just like to play Spring and are migrating from Win98.

I was under the impression that people have had good luck playing the windows version under wine... My bad.

BTW W2k is just as commercial and not free as XP- But if you have 2k, that would work

I never tried to run Spring with wine but those how do say sound is missing and fronts are not displaying right.
Other than that it works.

The multiplatform version works more or less but the lobby is not done.
And you can't play with Windows players as the netcode needs to be rewritten to resolve sync errors.
But I guess that it will be resolved soon as it is the #1 priority for the coders.

duh wrote:will Red Hat Linux ver 9 work?

In principel, any will do as long as it has requirements for wine. Go here for some simple instructions:
http://taspring.clan-sy.com/wiki/Linux
(scrool down to section "Running Spring via wine")

Just remember the problems with Spring through wine:
- No sound
- Fonts don't show up well, sometimes very hard to read. (someone said that it was fixable by installing Microsoft's fonts)
- People are reporting wine to have a memory leak that will make it grow with long games, eventually slowing it down.

Other than those, it works prety fine and with good performance.
And you won't have to pay for a new OS just to try it .

PauloMorfeo wrote:

duh wrote:will Red Hat Linux ver 9 work?

In principel, any will do as long as it has requirements for wine.

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I'm not 100% sure but I guess Red Hat 9 lacks the needed 3D graphics support.