Linux systems

[GunsInMyBoots]

Hey! So I'm a returning member who really wants to experience the good ol' days, feeling a bit nostalgic with this whole pandemic... but anyway I noticed I can't download POTCO because I have a Linux operating system (not mac or windows, unfortunately)

I guess I was wondering what the possibility of POTCO ever being on the browser and no download required or even being able to operate on Linux

 

[Davy Darkrage]

TLOPO ran really well on Wine the last time I tried, though it's been a while so YMMV. It can technically run natively on Linux, there's just no launcher available for it right now.

 

[Mark Scurvyfox]

I noticed I can't download the game because I have a Linux operating system - I guess I was wondering what the possibility of TLOPO ever being able to operate on Linux?

IF I may, which Linux distribution are you on? Ubuntu? Linux Mint?
$ cat /etc/os-release

 

[Bart Gunshot]

As Davy said, TLOPO does actually have game files for Linux. Just not an official launcher at the moment. If you'd like to try it I've made a rudimentary launcher that downloads (and updates) and launches the game. I haven't packaged a executable for Linux but I've tested it on both Ubuntu and Manjaro and it works fine. It just needs Python 3 (and the requests library) to be installed which should come with most distributions.

GitHub - BartGunshot/TLOPO-Launcher: TLOPO Launcher for multi-distribution launching

TLOPO Launcher for multi-distribution launching. Contribute to BartGunshot/TLOPO-Launcher development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

You'll probably run into dependency issues. I didn't have much issue resolving these through the distro's package manager.
You'll also need to set the game binary it downloads to be able to be ran as an executable.

If you decide to run it this way and need assistance with the above I can try to help. (although I'm pretty new to Linux myself)

UPDATE: I've packaged a Linux executable. However I failed to realize that the packager I'm using isn't backwards compatible with a certain linux package. So I'll have to download a much older version in order to make it more compatible with more machines. I'll look into fixing this later. For now, this executable should work if you have GLIBC version 2.31+. To check run ldd --version in a terminal. This is honestly a fairly new version. So I'd doubt it'd work on anything but the bleeding edge distributions.

 

[GunsInMyBoots]

Thanks for all the responses! I'm not great with technology but ill give it my best go and get back to you guys.

IF I may, which Linux distribution are you on? Ubuntu? Linux Mint?
$ cat /etc/os-release

Also I'm on a chromebook!

 

[Bart Gunshot]

Also I'm on a chromebook!

Not too familiar with ChromeOS, but some light research looks like it's Linux app support is implemented with a virtual machine within ChromeOS. And according to Google's page its in beta and most importantly:

Check what’s not supported yet

• Hardware acceleration is not yet supported, including GPU and video decode.

If this is up to date then I don't think you can run the game. Pretty sure the game requires hardware acceleration.

I'll see about getting a virtual machine running to test it out though.

 

[Davy Darkrage]

There's also crouton which doesn't use virtualization and has some support for hardware acceleration, but it's probably more complicated to set up and there's no guarantee it will run the game well enough to play.