Quoting: Eike

Quoting: CybolicSo, what exactly are these games? I tried watching a few of the videos, hoping to learn a bit about the gameplay, but they all seem to be just slideshows of "titillating" characters.

Found this video?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eVa0Crj1oD8 [External Link]

Thanks for the find! No, I hadn't seen that, I just clicked a few of the videos on the Humble page.

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So, what exactly are these games? I tried watching a few of the videos, hoping to learn a bit about the gameplay, but they all seem to be just slideshows of "titillating" characters.

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The theme is certainly a lot more appealing than the usual fantasy theme (which I must admit, I'm rather tired of), but I hope they spent some time polishing the audio side a bit before release; I would tire of those sounds quite quickly.

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Quoting: Commander

Quoting: Cybolic[...] Vineyard [External Link]. [...]

Hm seems to be crashing for me on launch; [...]
File "/usr/bin/vineyard-preferences", line 177, in __init__
icon = icon_theme.load_icon(page[1], height, gtk.ICON_LOOKUP_USE_BUILTIN)
glib.GError: Icon 'harddrive' not present in theme

How did you install it? That code hasn't been in Vineyard for quite some time :/

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Quoting: tomaszgThe torrent seems to be Windows only :(

That's where the pirates are :)
In light of their statement though, the Linux version would make sense to include as well.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: CybolicWell, to be fair, Vineyard is also GTK2. I have a feeling there are a few people running statistical Windows programs on Puppy Linux who'd be rather upset with me if I upgraded to that bloated new GTK version ;P

Sure, and then they whine about every other modern feature they personally don't happen to need at this particular moment. They can always stick to an older version of the software. But obviously you should build a curses UI for them. [...]

Well, I'm mostly basing it on my own experience, where I had to run a specific piece of graphing software for Windows for a math course on my previous aging laptop and there was no way I would ever be able to get it to run anything as new as GTK3.
Times may have changed though; I might need to run a poll at some point :)

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: ShmerlLately, I wanted to make some tool like that myself, after realizing that POL is basically a dead project. But I'll probably stick to some basic scripts :)

Their Wine builds are still updated though. Which is my main usage of it, the ability to switch out various wine versions.

Yup, POL's Wine builds are definitely a winning feature! Vineyard supports them, btw. but you still have to install them through POL (I don't want to leach off their bandwidth and hard work). A Wine build repository not linked to any specific tool would be awesome though.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: qptain Nemo

Quoting: Shmerl[...] PlayOnLinux [...]

I don't really like the UI of POL [...]

Yeah, UI is clunky and outdated. It's stuck with GTK2 and their switch to Qt never happened. I think developers simply abandoned the whole effort.

Well, to be fair, Vineyard is also GTK2. I have a feeling there are a few people running statistical Windows programs on Puppy Linux who'd be rather upset with me if I upgraded to that bloated new GTK version ;P

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Quoting: Sputnik_tr_02

Quoting: Cybolic

Quoting: Sputnik_tr_02

Quoting: Cybolicbla bla Vineyard [External Link]

Seems nice. Can we run programs and games with "primusrun" or "optirun", if so how?

Sort-of. If you use the "Programs" page to create a Desktop launcher, you can put a shell one-liner in the "Command" entry, so instead of just the path to the Windows executable, you can use something like "sh -c 'optirun $WINE whatever was originally in the entry field'" and Vineyard will run the command with the proper environment variables set.

Thanks. I installed the program from testing repo but unfortunately vineyard settings does not work properly for me. I cannot create a new prefix. Dialog says it is creating the prefix for a while and disappears but there is no prefix but default and drop down for selecting prefix is greyed out. Also most of the settings that I change goes back to default when I restart the app such as windows version. Anyway this app has so much potential, I wish you the best.

Oh, yikes. Could I get you to submit a bug report on GitHub [External Link] for this with the terminal output included?

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Quoting: Sputnik_tr_02

Quoting: CybolicSince there are several comments about the difficulties in setting up Wine prefixes, I'll just do a quick plug for my own little Wine management tool, Vineyard [External Link]. With that installed, you can just double click a Windows executable, select which existing prefix to use or select "New prefix" (and if needed, select the Windows version to emulate, the virtual desktop size to use and which Winetricks packages to install) and click run; easy-peasy. It also comes with an indicator showing the running Wine applications (if they're launched through Vineyard) so you can check their output and it'll automatically suggest which Winetricks packages you might need to install based on the error messages.

Seems nice. Can we run programs and games with "primusrun" or "optirun", if so how?

Sort-of. If you use the "Programs" page to create a Desktop launcher, you can put a shell one-liner in the "Command" entry, so instead of just the path to the Windows executable, you can use something like "sh -c 'optirun $WINE whatever was originally in the entry field'" and Vineyard will run the command with the proper environment variables set.

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