Any chance of 4DO for Linux? Or even Android. Then I could sit on the train and play immercenary

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Dreamcast would not have the horsepower to do it. There was a XBox port attempted, but the core graphical emulation is too slow. The CPU emulation was actually not the bottleneck like I was expecting; it was the GPU emulation...3DO Experience wrote:This is a little OT and will sound silly but do you think 4DO could ever be ported & run smoothly on a Dreamcast?
Ah I see. Well, it may be a bit harder to finish it up then. I'm surprised it works as well as it does, since the core emulation calls some native windows DLLs (as in, not .NET). I didn't hear sound in the video, is sound working? I wouldn't expect so.Dreygor wrote:It's not a true Linux port.
1)I started by using a Ubuntu distro of Linux.
2)Made sure all the drivers I needed were loaded.
3)Installed WINE and updated it, then installed Winetricks.
4)Used WINE and installed 4DO using the windows installed EXE (I would kill for your latest version - even beta version - as an installer.
5)Then using Winetricks I installed Microsoft .NET 4 Framework Client Profile and the full install of Microsoft DirectX. Use the full directX install not just the .dlls.
And that's where I am at. It seems that Linux is not forwarding the keystrokes to the program running in WINE. I Plugged in a XBOX 360 controller and got about the same thing. I tried a normal Linux game and the controller worked just fine. i just don't know how to get it forwarded to WINE.
I was also thinking that it would be possible to run this fairly well in a Linux virtual machine, but that takes up allot of extra resources.
My overall goal is to get this 100% working in Linux so when I get my modded Xbox (original) finished I will be able to load all my ISO/BINs onto my xbox and be able to play all my 3DO games on it. It will also have CoinOps5 and XBMC on it. Essentially making the very compact Xbox a Home Theater Entertainment PC.
Xbox mods - Hard drive swapped from 20gb to a 400gb, TSOP flash for booting speed, Softmodded with UnleashX [url]hhttp://www.xbox-hq.com/html/modules.php?name=X ... iew&gid=89[/url] as a dashboard and then install CoinOps5 http://coinopsproject.freeforums.org/co ... p-f57.html , XboX linux http://xboxlinuxproject.wikia.com/wiki/ ... oject_Wiki , and XBMC http://www.xbmc.org/as sub menus under it.
Oh wow that's crap3DO Experience wrote:Well I'm not dieing for a Dreamcast port, was just curious. As JohnnyDude said there was work on an XBox port of freeDO. I was told that it was running smooth (a lie) and I gave those guys money plus I bought a 3DO to XBox controller adapter which I never received.