[Coco] VCC freezing up under Ubuntu

[Bill Pierce]

Keith,
No, Directx is just used to draw the actual Coco screen and for sound. The DX support for linux has many different parts and if one needed part is missing, then that part will fail. The windows and menus themselves are generated by the standard windows api and will come up even if some the dx components are missing. Diectx is only accessed when it has to draw the actual Coco screen or use sound. When I downloaded and installed Wine on Mint, I had to go back and get several dx parts to make it work. I think I'm still lacking some as it will fail on certain things. I run windows and was just playing around with it in Mint so I never checked everything, butit it did run and boot nitros9.
Just search your repository for "directx support for wine" or "wine directx"

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Clark <keithclark at waterloosubstop.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, Apr 19, 2013 5:35 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] VCC freezing up under Ubuntu


But it does begin to run Bill.  Would it just not start up at all if I
required directx support?


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:

>
> Keith,
> You probably need to get the directx support packages as Vcc uses directx
> for sound and graphics. I had to do this on Mint
>
> Bill Pierce
> My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> Co-Webmaster of The TRS-80 Color Computer Archive
> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/
> Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
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>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Clark <keithclark at waterloosubstop.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Fri, Apr 19, 2013 2:55 pm
> Subject: [Coco] VCC freezing up under Ubuntu
>
>
> I'm running VCC under wine on Ubuntu 13.04 (yes, I know it is a beta but
> the same thing happened under 12.10) and it seems to be locking up the
> coco emulated screen.  I can still access the menus, but the actual coco
> screen freezes solid and cannot be reset.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Keith
>
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