morgue Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Has anyone tried this? I'm going to give it a shot, but I wanted to know if someone has got it running on Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morgue Posted November 3, 2006 Author Share Posted November 3, 2006 Well so far I got the game installed, now I'm trying to get it to run lol I'll get back to you if I get to run it... Has anyone tried this anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyman Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 wow, this sounds nice, i have ubuntu too it would be nice if i can install mvp on it are u using wine to do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SloppyChris Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 In the next few days I'm going to give this a shot in Mandriva 2007. It's been my experience with wine that older, simpler programs work better with wine. I don't know if that makes any sense. I couldn't get Photoshop CS2 or Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, but MP3gain works well. Photoshop 7 installs, runs, and is usable, but is pretty buggy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utopianlaw Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 SloppyChris - How did it go? I'm interested in trying this idea out as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SloppyChris Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 I apologize for not getting back. I did not get MVP 05 running, but Wine has made some significant improvements (along with my understanding of it) so I'm thinking about trying again soon. Has anyone else tried? PS Ubuntu Gutsy with worth a try if you're thinking about converting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pujols Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Off topic, but what excatly is Linux? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigPaPa Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 it not windows and not mac its Unix Based i cnat really explain youd have to try it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SESbb30 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 an alternate OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pujols Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Well, I know it's a OS, but what makes it different from Windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigPaPa Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 its hard to explain but in general its alot less hairy then windows and 1000x more stable. I prefer it to windows for programming, web design and the like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philliesphan18 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Its a free alternate operating system. Try googling Ubuntu or Suess, the two most popular linux strains. Also, since its free, anyone can edit it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SloppyChris Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Linux is an operating system that is free software, meaning it is free to use (no licenses or registration ever!) but it is also open source and developed by a volunteer community. The most cited benefits of Linux are its' stability -- is rarely crashes and rarely needs to be restarted, and its' security. While there are a small amount of viruses that exist for linux, the inherent security of community maintained software makes it nearly impossible for viruses, trojans, spyware, or any other type of malware to spread. While it has been a favorite operating system on servers for many years, Linux has made lots of progress recently as a desktop operating system that intermediate and less experienced users can work with. There are lots of excellent flavors of linux available, although the most popular one for beginners is Ubuntu. They offer a "live cd" you can download and burn, then play around with on your system temporarily without affecting anything. As you can see, the linux community is pretty dedicated to helping people . Check out http://www.getgnulinux.org/ for some more info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pujols Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Thanks guys I didn't mean to jack your thread, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizzjob Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 FWIW, I successfully got MVP running in Ubuntu 8.04 Beta using Wine 0.9.59. on a 1.3ghz AMD Athlon with 768mb of RAM and an nVidia GeForce FX 5900XT. Here's a shot running with 2x uniforms at 1024x768x32 - in a window, no less! I had to do some juggling to get the game to install because it's on 2 CDs, and I had to disable a couple of the graphic effects (dust cloud, helmet reflections, etc.) There are also a few graphic glitches, but nothing that makes it unplayable. It's actually pretty smooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winn0r Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Would you share your installation guide? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricou Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 look at wine site : its say that mvp 2005 run with it. to install it on a linux os just open the installer with wine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizzjob Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 The trick was finding the right command... So, in a terminal (assuming Wine sees your CD-ROM as the D drive): wine "d:setup.exe" ...that kicks off the installer. The screen asking me about installing the EA Online stuff was just a blank window, but I was able to just close that and continue on. When MVP was asking for CD #2, I ran into problems unmounting/ejecting it through my file manager, since it was technically still in use by Wine. It turns out you have to open a second terminal and enter the following: wine eject ...if that fails, it's "wine eject d:", IIRC. There were also some headaches getting it recognize my gamepad, but I fixed that with a bit of registry editing...in a terminal, type "regedit", which will bring up the Wine registry editor. Navigate down to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareWineDirectInput. Create a new String value and give it the name "Logitech Logitech Dual Action" (yes, you have to type Logitech twice) and give it a value of "X,Y,Rx,Rz,Slider1,POV1", or something like that - it varies from gamepad to gamepad. But...it works! Now, to see if things like MVPStudio, FSHed and gfxpak work under Wine... 8O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winn0r Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 Thanks a lot! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SloppyChris Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Thanks for the help fizzjob, I ran into the same CD switch problem but was able to install it with your suggestions. I just tried a test run and I installed and made it to gameplay just fine. I ran into a couple issues: the resolution on the setup screen wasn't right, the top and bottom of the screen was cut off. Also, I had no audio. I've never used wine with a game before, so i'll have to mess around and see if I can figure it out. It also would be a good idea to add whatever we learn to appdb.winehq.com so other people can learn from our work. edit: I haven't tried my controller yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SloppyChris Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 Turns out the audio issue isn't specific to mvp baseball, it isn't playing because of the way the new pulse audio server in ubuntu works. To fix it, run the program (or change the application launcher) with the "padsp" prefix without the quotes. Example: padsp wine mvpbaseball2005.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcosjarizmend Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 i'm new to linux so forgive me when i ask what is wine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestro23 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 i'm new to linux so forgive me when i ask what is wine? http://www.winehq.org/ *You know, you might have better luck with your general linux questions in your distro's forum. What flavor of linux are you running? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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