[How To] Play Midtown Madness 1 on Linux! *Updated 5/18/2018

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[How To] Play Midtown Madness 1 on Linux! *Updated 5/18/2018

Postby THE_DriverX » Fri Dec 29, 2017 1:03 am

Ready to play Midtown Madness on Linux? I have created a simple bash script for 32 or 64 bit OS's. Follow the instructions included in the zip file here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1inWrpe ... sp=sharing . For reference, my PC's specs: AMD A6 (Quad-Core) CPU; Asus R9 270x (using the Radeon open source driver); Xubuntu 16.04.3 (x86_x64).

Well, here it is! Slightly revised "launcher" with glamor support! The Read Me has been updated. I will not go over how to enable glamor here... that's what Google is for. Here is an example for those running AMD GPU's: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI . I cannot confirm if this works with Nvidia or Intel gpus (if it does, please let everyone here know here in the comments :biggrin2:). Have fun!

*Download in link above

*P.S. : Sorry, I haven't looked into this, so unless you want to drive around with random muilt-colored planes (no, not airplanes... think polygons), I would recommend disabling pedestrians.
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Postby Diatosta » Fri Dec 29, 2017 1:36 am

Currently you have to ask for permission to have access to the script file. Maybe change it so you don't need it? :P
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Postby THE_DriverX » Fri Dec 29, 2017 2:49 am

Sorry to anyone trying to access the download page... all fixed now! :)
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Postby Franch88 » Fri Dec 29, 2017 8:31 pm

I can't try this, but looks to be a really interesting chance to play the game on Linux. Thanks for it. :)
However, I wonder if Wine, a Windows emulator for Linux operative systems, could already run it decently.
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Postby THE_DriverX » Sat Dec 30, 2017 3:05 am

Up to this point in time, short answer... no, it can't run with wine by default.

Longer Answer: MM requires an 16-bit colored desktop enviroment. Now, wine can run some 16-bit colored games OK, but MM is very fussy about it's working enviroment. This has lead the game to ALWAYS fail :(. Theses scripts produce a new x server window that is an 16-bit enviroment, however, NO hardware accelration (even though MM says there is one). So, reguardless if you run MM in HW or SW mode, the CPU is drawing the 2D/3D objects (in wines case). Normally, this wouldn't be the case, but, this is the drawback of starting a new x server with no HW mode. There we're patches made years ago to enable HW for the virtual window, but it hasn't been kept up-to-date and is not compadiable with newer linux OS's.

Just to note: MM did run (poorly) years ago on wine version 0.9.5 but then it was broken in later versions (which WineHQ is up to version 3.0).
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