Linux Dream Seeker

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Oct 15 2009, 3:38 pm
I am nearly 100% linux the only thing that brings me back to my windows pc for about 2 hours a day is byond
I tried running it in wine
the Dream Maker runs excellent
I haven't tried the Dream Daemon because the native linux dream daemon runs wonderful
but the Dream seeker runs terribly slow

I'm sure there is a reason for linux not having its own dream seeker(well I think there is one a text mode or something)but I am hoping that one can be made
and what are the problems which are delaying this

P.S. I wasn't sure where to put this so I posted it here
Oct 15 2009, 3:47 pm
Unfortunately the Linux version of Dream Seeker had to be discontinued when the 4.0 upgrade came about due to the complexity of continuing to support it.

There are no plans to create a native graphical Linux version, there simply isn't the man-power and resources required to undertake such a project.
Oct 15 2009, 5:01 pm
In response to Nadrew
Has there never been a side team or something that worked on developing for linux?
Oct 15 2009, 7:11 pm
In response to Corbenik
All Linux development right now is basically compiling the general core systems into non-GUI stuff. Dream Seeker simply can't rely on that anymore with how interfaces work.

The hope is that some day there will be a way of making a Linux version avaliable, but right now it's just not realistic.
Oct 15 2009, 9:12 pm
In response to Nadrew
guess your right
all I can do is hope
Oct 16 2009, 7:13 am
In response to Nadrew
Nadrew wrote:
The hope is that some day there will be a way of making a Linux version avaliable, but right now it's just not realistic.

Oh, there's a way, and it's been discussed many times. BYOND's management is unwilling to open the way.
Oct 16 2009, 8:25 am
One thing you can do to speed it up is switch the rendering engine to OpenGL and overwrite the riched20.dll and riched32.dll. Between those two, you should get a reasonably fast DS.

Another option is VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a machine emulator that will let you run Windows inside of Linux. VirtualBox supports both OpenGL and basic DirectX and might allow you to get your BYOND fix without having to restart into Windows.
Oct 16 2009, 11:15 am (Edited on Oct 16 2009, 1:14 pm)
In response to Danial.Beta
Sorry I read the post wrong you said replace both

and after doing I have to say speed has increased drastically to were games are playable
its still not 100% as it would be in windows but its good enough for me