This question goes out to all the techies, not many (i think) will be able to answer this. Anyway i wanted to know if someone has ever tried to install their realflight on a linux based system. I run a dualboot at home with Linux and WinXP for the fact that i love to play realflight and some of my adobe programs wont transfer over so i still use windows along with most of the world.

Are there any linux installers available, if so how about for SuSE or Mandriva, i am running SuSE at the moment and if i could also play Real Flight G3 in my linux environment i would be in heaven... Well almost [8D]

Look into Wine and Cadega... Wine is free and always in a constant state of development. Cadega is a one time fee (I believe) of around $30. Haven't tried Cadega yet, but have heard that there's a lot of Windoze games that run great under Cadega... I have limited experience with Wine, but have heard that few games (openGL and DirectX) will run on it.

I am just about to try and install AFPD with wine, I'll report back on any success/failure when I eventually get around to it.

HTH,
-Todd

thanks i will take a look into it.. i'll be looking for Wine that has a SuSE installer, hopefully

Looks like they have SuSE binaries available....

http://www.winehq.com/site/download

Main page: http://www.winehq.com/

tried Wine, couldnt figure out how to get it to read a CD through the wine progman

Ok, I did get the installer to work in Wine and it looks like it completely installed...

But I can't launch the game. The title screen comes up, then it crashes. I could probably play with it some more, but Wine is still new to me and it'll be a struggle.

I'm going to try Cadega next. I looked into it and it's like a subscription service. $5/month. If Cadega works, then I'll be able to become 100% M$ free!

I'm trying also, so please keep us posted
I'm getting hung up on "please insert disk2". I can't umount disk 1 to insert #2.
Anyinfo?
I'm on gentoo, wine 0.9.8
Thanks
Cory

I installed AFPD in vmware a few months ago. It worked like a frame at every 3 sec. Since then I have a mail and apache on the machine and no mood to tweak around.
Boby

Are you launching the installer from the cdrom directory? i.e.:
cd /path/to/cdrom
wine setup.exe

???

If so, that's probably the reason why. If you're "in" the directory that you are trying to umount, it won't umount.

Instead, run the installer like this: (from home directory or any dir other than one on the cdrom)
wine /path/to/cdrom/setup.exe

You should be able to umount the cdrom if you do this...

Good luck!

I wouldn't expect it to run well in vmware unless you were running it on a Cray perhaps..

But, if we can get a sim to run with wine or cadega, performance could be the similar to windoze, and at the ery least acceptable on a higher-end machine

Check this out...

http://wiki.winehq.org/BenchMark-0.9.5

Well, I tried Cedega with AFPD. I'm SO CLOSE, yet SO FAR!!!

After some struggling, I got AFPD to start up under Cedega. I can see the main menu screen and the startup plane (Christen Eagle) rotating, but it won't detet the USB copy protection dongle. It even looks like it detects my TX as a joystick... But not that gosh darned dongle!

Anyone know how to get Cedega to recognize a USB copy protection dongle????

I have installed wine and RFG3 but i can only run c:\program files\real flight\realflight.exe the problem is as i can not run the launcher i can not enter the serial numbers so real flight wont run can anyone help thanks Tom

Ok now i have it all running on wine it will update but when i run RFG3 it says that the interlink controller can be found any help

I saw this thread from a google search so I too tried getting it to work
Hurdles: Recognizing the cdrom, second disk on installer, Registration, Recognizing Interlink

using FC6, wine-0.9.27

Recognizing the cdrom
easy fix create a link in ~/.wine/dosdevices that points to your cdrom's mount directory like so
ln -s /mnt/cdrom ~/.wine/dosdevices/d:

second disk on installer
easy easy fix don't cd to the cdrom directory
I installed from my home directory like so
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
wine d:\\SETUP.EXE
(then when it asked for the second disk I ran)
umount /mnt/cdrom
(installed the second disk)
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
(and clicked continue)

Registration
I had to look at a windows installed shortcut to find this one out.
I launched the launcher as follows
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Common\ Files/KnifeEdge/Launcher.exe REALFLIGHT3
I entered my keys and registered just fine :-)
I even upgraded.

Recognizing Interlink
I'm at a loss on this If I could figure this out I think I'm home free.

edited...............

ANY discussion of hardware or software that is used to violate copyright is not allowed.

I was unaware that software I was suggesting would violate the copywrite. I wish to be 100% legal I would like to have direct discution with the moderator if I am in violation, thank you.

Also I emailed the Real Flight game creators asking for a linux version and am waiting a response. I will post what I can of the response if I get one or I will post what I find out.

I came to another hurdle.

Error: E_INVALIDARG
File: .\DXDirectInputWrapper.cpp
Line: 81

Looks Like its time to try Cedega.

Cedega does not work it doesn't get as far as wine did. Oh well I have been playing with cedega for a long time I was wanting an excuse to get the latest version and try it out on some other games I have.

One other program to try there is also Crossover. It was more designed to use office applications but I'll give it a shot too.

Well I could not get this simulator to work but I decided to look for an open source solution and here is what I found
It's not perfect but it can be setup to use RealFlight's as a joystick. It doesn't have any helicopters but it has alot of gliders.

http://crrcsim.sourceforge.net/wiki/...RCsim.HomePage

If anyone needs help with it I am willing to help. I actually have to submit patches to it. I had to change a few things to get it to compile.

News for AFPD on Linux!

I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like there's a port for it to run on Linux:
http://www.ipacs.de/forum/showthread...3e9f3b0&t=3794 (english instructions in second post)

I'll have to try it ASAP.

-t

Ahh to be 100% M$ Free. Well that would be as good as it could EVER be.
I have a project going with FMS running with Wine on Knoppix Linux (Debian based) with a Live CD setup. I am trying the CRRCsim on Windows now and it drop's video on my system but DOES input from my JR transmitter from my sound card for stick input (all 8 channels look to be working). If I make progress toward being 100% M$ free I WILL RELEASE A "HOW TO" for the betterment of human kind.
[8D]
I Edited my post to change the S to a $ in MS. It with out a doubt NEEDS to be a "M$".

It works! It works! Better yet, I installed it on my Linux HTPC so I can fly on my HDTV in the livingroom. Framerate is very good, at least what it was in windoze. Sound is a little weird, but it works good enough. This is AFPD of course, not G3....

Athlon XP 2700
nVidia 5700 AGP.
512 MB RAM
Fedora Core 5
Kernel 2.6.17 i686 (need this kernel for my tuner card)

I can FINALLY ditch windoze for good! Any other games I want to run should work with Cadega/Wine, mostly popular stuff.

-Todd

AFPD(AeroFly Professional Deluxe) Works?
How is it compared to RealFlight?
How many airplanes does it have?
How many Helicopters?

I'll go a head and post its links cause you forgot :-P

http://www.aerofly.com/

I think you'll find most of your questions answered right [link=http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/forumid_337/tt.htm]here[/link]. Lots and lots of airplanes to download. Good physics including 3D physics. Never tried G3 so I can't compare the two, but there's lots of comparisons on this board. Great sim all around.

-Todd

good to hear atleast one of these guys is making a port for linux. knife edge will not get my business when i upgrade to a newer rc sim since i primarily use linux at home. ubuntu 7.04 is my distro. now i can soon delete my windows partition that only sits around for that sim.