Linux

Spring is running on Linux! But it's not ready for a release, networking and sound need love for example.

The Linux porting effort is underway at https://opensvn.csie.org/traccgi/taspring_linux/trac.cgi/wiki

With a mailinglist here http://lolut.utbm.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/taspring-linux

The first sceenshot of Spring running on Linux.

Running Spring via wine

This is unconfirmed stuff, if it's not working figure it out and update this wiki page!

Even though a native Linux port of Spring is almost complete, if, in the meantime, you want to play Spring in Linux using Wine(link to http://winehq.org/), follow these guidelines:

1 - You'll need, of course, Wine installed.
2 - Be sure to have 3D hardware acceleration enabled.
3 - Install Spring or use an already installed Spring in Windows.

1 - You'll need, of course, Wine installed.
Just install it from your reposetory or your jap, jum or you thing in Fedora Core/Suse. If you like to do difecult try to compile from source or something. http://winehq.org/

2 - Be sure to have 3D hardware acceleration enabled.
Spring is a fully 3D game and will require those. This usually means you have to install the nVidia/Ati comercial drivers. Just install the package from you distribution. If you're having problems installing these, you'll also probably find better help at they're web sites. Don't ask on the Spring forum as they all run MS Windows.

To know if you have 3D acceleration working, you can execute in a comand line the comand: glxinfo If it shows the line: direct rendering: yes You probably have them working.

3 - Install Spring or use an already installed Spring in Windows.

• If you already have Spring installed in Windows, make sure that partition is accessible in Linux, use a comand line to change directory (cd) into it and execute:

wine TASClient.exe

• If you don't have Spring installed yet, install it executing in a comand line where the installer file is located:

wine taspring_0.63b2.exe (or whatever else the installer might be called) Then, change directory to where you installed it to, generally: cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/TASpring (the comand line only accepts " " spaces in paths if they have an "\" before, like: cd Program\ Files) And, similarly, execute: wine TASClient.exe

My Linux instalation, Suse Linux 9.3, installed by default Wine and had the option, through the YOU auto-updating tool, to automatically install the comercial drivers. If your distribution also has such options, it can save you much work.