Be it known unto all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people, unto whom this message shall come: That I, through the grace of my future son-in-law, have seen Aces High II running under LINUX, and it is marvelous in my eyes! And I also testify that I have felt and tested the flight response with my own hands, and verily it is true.
As it is written "by the testimony of two or three witnesses shall every word be established", I provide herewith links to two digital movies:
http://techvideoreview.com/FlightSimMovies/AcesHigh/Linux/MOV06224.MPGhttp://techvideoreview.com/FlightSimMovies/AcesHigh/Linux/MOV06225.MPGAt Last! we can be freed from the tyranny that has heretofore bound us to the evil empire! Let the celebrations begin!
In recognition of this great event, I propose that my future son-in-law Ryan Waters be Sainted, Knighted, and that shrines to his memory be built throughout the land.
Ryan was using a recently updated copy of Fedora LINUX. Three months ago this could not support AH2, but in the interim, a lot of progress has been made with DirectX emulation under both "Wine" and "Cedega". He got it working with both DirectX emulators. With "Wine", he had to use the latest, experimental "hack" drivers (which are not yet well supported). With "Cedega", he used the current production software. Joystick, numeric keypad, and sound support all worked reasonably, and framerate was good on his laptop computer.
-Peabody-