[Virus2_0]

I love GM, but i also love linux. and i dont love GM enough to buy windows. Does any1 know if GM will be ported to linux as well?

[T-Bird]

They are not directly supporting linux at this time.

Some users have been able to get it to work using various tweaks, but YoYo isn't creating or supporting a linux version at the moment.

[Caniac]

Virus2_0, on Oct 17 2009, 06:22 PM, said:

I love GM, but i also love linux. and i dont love GM enough to buy windows. Does any1 know if GM will be ported to linux as well?

http://www.drwatz0n.com/archives/447

This post has been edited by Caniac: 17 October 2009 - 10:40 PM

[jakman4242]

For some reason I doubt the legitimacy of that claim @ Caniac.

But it does seems like YoYo is turning away from Linux, nonetheless. It's a shame, imo, since many, many people use it as a prime OS. And since Ubuntu's rise, it's became ever more popular. The fact its' free, and has functionality on a similar level to Mac OS X and Windows is enough on it's own, but then you throw in things that Mac OS X and Windows don't even have.

This post has been edited by jakman4242: 18 October 2009 - 12:48 AM

[Caniac]

jakman4242, on Oct 17 2009, 08:12 PM, said:

For some reason I doubt the legitimacy of that claim @ Caniac.

But it does seems like YoYo is turning away from Linux, nonetheless. It's a shame, imo, since many, many people use it as a prime OS. And since Ubuntu's rise, it's became ever more popular. The fact its' free, and has functionality on a similar level to Mac OS X and Windows is enough on it's own, but then you throw in things that Mac OS X and Windows don't even have.

read through My Tweets (@DarthCaniac), and read through Sandy Duncan's tweets (@ZanderDuYoyo), and you will find both of those tweets.

[tuntis]

jakman4242, on Oct 18 2009, 03:12 AM, said:

For some reason I doubt the legitimacy of that claim @ Caniac.

One, two.

[jakman4242]

Apologies, thanks for clarifying.

[Virus2_0]

T-Bird, on Oct 17 2009, 03:26 PM, said:

They are not directly supporting linux at this time.

Some users have been able to get it to work using various tweaks, but YoYo isn't creating or supporting a linux version at the moment.

oooh tweaks!!!!! can u link me?

[Recreate]

Let me rephrase that, with major changes and hacks, not tweaks

[Frederick]

That would be great if they did that. I happen to be a Linux user too.

This post has been edited by Frederick: 19 October 2009 - 03:27 AM

[T-Bird]

I cannot link you. By tweaks I meant things like running WINE, or having hacked/modded forms of linux besides your standard distro that allow you to run software built for Max/Windows which linux otherwise couldn't.

[Frederick]

Wine doesn't run Game Maker correctly. Some of the game maker games don't start.

[SunnyKatt]

Some GM games can run perfectly on linux using wine (hint hint: mine) and it isn't that hard to do (at least, it ran perfectly on the couple of linux computers we tested).

Simply follow this tutorial: http://gmc.yoyogames...howtopic=418726

I don't see why people can't just try and live with doing this instead until linux support *eventually* surfaces.

This post has been edited by SunnyKatt: 26 October 2009 - 12:58 AM

[Stillloading]

i've searched a bit and came upon only little evidence that there was going to be a port of GM to Linux(after macs of course) and was wondering if there was anything new on the subject. i primarily use Linux on my laptop, which is good for a few things. taking minutes at meatings, blasting techno, and using the word processor. me and a friend used to have a game in development and i wanted to get back into making said game, but didn't want to fork money out to micro$oft just to use GM on my laptop.

any new news on GM for us Linux boys?

[dadio]

No official news...
*but*
the fact that GMMac has been in development for so long now & was recently "put on hold" because the programmer dropped out bodes very badly for the possibility of a Linux version.

Even if a Linux version is on the table & eventually coming, I`d say the best you could hope for would be a 2 year+ wait.

[head_removalist]

As far as I knew, a Linux version was possible, but never even on the cards. Plus, as dadio said, GM for Mac's release has been cancelled until GM9, so I doubt we will see a Linux version until any later than that.

[KC LC]

Stillloading said:

...was wondering if there was anything new on the subject.

Other than these topics that keep springing up? No.

I merged this latest topic with the previous one. No reason for multiple topics about an effort that isn't underway.

[Bowex]

GM7 already works under Linux, or course ONLY emulated with Wine and such stuff.

We own a Linux root server, and we can run GM exes on it.

They handle our global serverlist for our multiplayergames. Works perfectly....

[LostOverThere]

Some games, notably those using ogg for sound support, work flawlessly through Wine with a few small adjustments. Unfortunately I can't say the same for GameMaker itself.

[LoopStan]

For the games, I am pretty sure its against the EULA to do this, but has someone tried making a 3rd party runner? In my eyes if you knew how gm worked, then it would be completely possible just parsing the code as you normally would. Hm...