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Hard Chip

A transistor simulation-ish puzzle game · By Elorth

Leave a +1 for: Linux version

A topic by Elorth created Aug 03, 2023 Views: 203 Replies: 8
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Running on something else than Windows is currently not supported!

Leave a +1 if you would play if available on Linux!

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The two current issues with running it through wine are as follows (both are fixed in the "Palindrome" download)

1. The way the zip is currently packaged doesn't preserve folder structure, but instead bakes it into the filename (I think some zip extractors can handle that and fix it, but xarchiver didn't, at least not by default)

2. There's some kind of codec issue when running it through wine, with it crashing with a very unhelpful error code that means "unsupported MIME type" (MIME being a standard for identifying files, to put it simply), so currently the code has to be run without sound (luckily that can be detected "on the fly" and hopefully next update will auto-disable sound if it would otherwise crash)

Developer

Here's the status for those who will try the build on Linux. Those two issues should not prevent you from running the game on Wine. Music will be deactivated though.

+1 I will probably also play it under Windows, but that system days seems limited (I'm not sure I will go any further than Win10, its already quite bad)
Also as Linux (Debian unstable) is my primary OS it is a lot more convenient for me having my games run under it and not having to boot to a Windows install

+1 I would buy this game a lot if you could make it buyable here or gog.com and make a linux build for it. I tried with wine/proton and even with C++ Redist 2022 it is not playable (only intro screen working)

Good news is that the steam build (which is the only way to run it with actual proton for technical reasons, that's just how proton works) seems to support linux decently well (in the "doesn't break proton' sense), so once the full version releases, it should be good to go!

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actually not, had to buy the DRM version from steam to try it with Proton Experimental (as most users reported it worked) but it is garbage... I would love if it had a linux build or at least a good wine/proton compatibility, a DRM-free version should be the best!

Weird, it worked very well for me!

And I doubt there's any actual DRM in it, you could probably just run it directly and it'd be fine (but you'd lose proton, as proton is intended to only be run from steam and has a lot of very particular requirements that you're basically not going to be able to handle by itself)

I have tried lots of different versions of wine/proton-ge/proton experimental. The closest I have got was this ich.io version which plays menu then crashes when clicking on new game.