QuotePC - LINUX - MAC

Quoting: dmantioneX11 is far from perfect, but from an end-user point of view there are few reasons to move to Wayland at the moment, because Xwayland is almost always used, so you end up with a more bloated way of running X11 applications.

Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: hardpenguinThis is nonsense. You will have to use XWayland for years to come. To run all the games that link X libraries directly (so, the vast majority of them), to begin with.

Not any more nonsense than saying that NAT is OK, and no one should be supporting IPv6 instead. Time to wake up and move forward.

Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: hardpenguin

Quoting: ShmerlAre they already using GTK3 for the launcher? They used GTK2 for TW2.

Can you tell me, please, does that matter in a slightest way?

Yes. GTK2 must go for good, if you want to switch to Wayland and avoid using XWayland in addition. So everything should be moving in that direction.

Quoting: ShmerlAre they already using GTK3 for the launcher? They used GTK2 for TW2.

Quoting: dmantione

QuoteThey also removed the "Exit to Windows" text (yeah I know, it’s an old game), so it just says "Quit" in the Linux port. Funny, because I noticed people whining about that on another website. Goes to show that VP do have a nice attention to the small details for us Linux gamers.

This is because in many peoples eyes, Eon does the same thing as Wine. While there are details on Eon exactly works, from the data that I have, I suspect Eon differs quite a bit from Wine.

What is similar about both technologies is that they load the original Windows executable in memory. However, while Wine is generic and makes no assumptions about the game in question, I believe Eon needs actual porting works on the game.

What is the difference. A good example would be the filesystem. Wine needs to emulate a full Windows filesystem with C: drives letters. I believe Eon is much more smilare to:

function OpenFile(name:Pchar):HFILE;winapi;

begin
if string(name)='settings.txt' then
OpenFile:=open(homedir+'/.config/Virtual Programming/Overlord/settings.txt');
end;

... the result is that VP ports behave like native Linux applications and don't need a filesystem with Dos drives letters.

Much more fundamental is that Wine needs to emulate DirectX shaders with low level OpenGL shaders. Because Eon knows what shaders to expect, native GLSL shaders can be used (Peter Mulholland from VP once said that they use native shaders).

Another thing that I belive Eon does, is runtime patching: Consider the machine code of the game in memory the "source code" and modify it at runtime. I believe this way, you can replace "Exit to Windows" with "Quit".

So yes, there are similarities between Wine and Eon, but I believe the VP ports are a lot closer to native applications than what some people believe. It certainly doesn't look VP just wraps the game and work is done.