Comments on: My own personal spore saga https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/23/my-own-personal-spore-saga/ Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:26:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Evan https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/23/my-own-personal-spore-saga/#comment-10264 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:26:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/23/my-own-personal-spore-saga/#comment-10264 I ran into the same problem as Mike. I tried installing it through Wine and ended up with several error messages before it reset my monitor’s screen resolution. The game, or at least the creator aspect of it, looked interesting, but not nearly interesting enough to go through that much trouble.

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Yes, I too was asked by EA games to install and test Spore.

You lucky bastard.

]]> By: Mike Haubrich, FCD https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/23/my-own-personal-spore-saga/#comment-10262 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:44:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/23/my-own-personal-spore-saga/#comment-10262 I tried to install it, and even with the new release of Wine, and a complete download and install of activeX and associated dll’s, ran into a message that the system couldn’t connect to the Registration Server. Kind of frustrating after a few hours of working on it.Phun works great, though.

]]> By: Carlie https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/23/my-own-personal-spore-saga/#comment-10261 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:13:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/23/my-own-personal-spore-saga/#comment-10261 Rhynie Chert!!!! God, I love that stuff.

]]> By: Ritchie Annand https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/23/my-own-personal-spore-saga/#comment-10260 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:53:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/23/my-own-personal-spore-saga/#comment-10260 If they had a Linux version, I would be mildly afeared of a half-baked .configuration file somewhere :)I feel not quite up to getting back into Linux until all my children are in school, because it takes not an insignificant time to do the fun things with it. I ran and enjoyed Fedora Core a while back, but I gotta say, the whole fiasco where one of the builds of gcc broke one major piece of compatibility with others of the same minor version, and the driver rebuild that gave me a nearly unrecoverable num/scroll/caps blink on startup… I’m no slouch, but I ran into troubles :)It was invaluable when I was trying to make one of my cool foundational libraries at work be cross-platform-ready. I also played Neverwinter Nights like there was no tomorrow – that ran pretty well :)Ah, drifting off-topic…My wife has Spore on pre-order. She’s quite taken with the concept, and has just been going nuts waiting for it.By the way, I notice that it’s your birthday today, Greg. Happy Birthday 🙂

]]> By: Bob O'H https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/23/my-own-personal-spore-saga/#comment-10259 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:59:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/23/my-own-personal-spore-saga/#comment-10259 Will it run under Wine? Incidentally, there is also a Mac version.I tried to install it, but it insisted on using Finnish (I live in Finland, but barely comprehend the language). Once I installed it, it wouldn’t run, because some dll was missing. It seems to need a particular version of DirectX, which I probably don’t have. At that point, I decided to give up.I’m rather biased, but I prefer this spore.

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