Digit Interface in Linux/Ubuntu

[Liverpool_fan]

Has anybody succeeded in running the Digit Flash interface in Ubuntu or any other Linux distro. I tried using Wine but it manages to run all flash programs like Miniclip Games except the Digit CD interface .
If anybody has succeded please reply?

[praka123]

that DVD/CD Autorun thingy is meant to run in Windows OS
But u can have flash,sound etc working in browser.We do have.
OK.so u may not have installed the plugins in Ubuntu may be
try below guide and this section for such queries and internet connection configuration etc-replied many times.
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:F...owser_Plug-ins
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:F...a_repositories
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#Automatix2

http://ubuntuguide.org

[Liverpool_fan]

I know the autorun does not work in Linux. But with sound, video and all working in Firefox integrated flash and one of my cds bundled with my pc which does not autorun but I can run it by:

wine /media/cdrom/flash.exe

However the digit interface does not run. Even the digit icon appears in the notification bar(a.k.a. taskbar) but I can go no further and it ends up in a white screen.

[praka123]

I hope u knows that Linux is very different and Wine is just emulating in UNIX environment,win32 things.for flash and all things to work,u need to install firefox,flash etc for windows using wine and it is a bad way too-and it is tough too.

[Liverpool_fan]

Yes I know Linux is very different. I've used Ubuntu for over 6 months now. I am very much aware that Wine is far from perfect. But if WINE can run Miniclip Games and CD-ROM Flash EXEs of the CDROM bundled with my PC, surely it can run the Digit CD with a little of tweaking.
I know the result would not be perfect. I've tried as I know but no avail. It may be a bad way but surely the Digit Team's making the interface only for Windows is even worse! I hope Team Digit does something about that.

[Liverpool_fan]

I have found the way of running Digit interface in Linux.

(EDIT) I removed the original link and put the tips here itself.

Few of us like to play standalone flash based games or some of us have to view flash based programs bundled either from some CD distributor or with a Magazine CD. Some of them run very well in vanilla installation of WINE but few of them need other Windows components and cannot run well under WINE in Linux.

However now running Flash based programs in Linux using WINE is a child’s play. You can play any flash based game or flash based interface in WINE by following the subsequent steps:

* Install WINE.
* Download ies4linux from this site and install ies4linux.
* Press Alt + F2 and type ~/.ies4linux/ie6 and press enter.
* At the same time press Alt+F2 and type ~/.wine
* Now copy all the contents from the former folder to latter folder. And when prompted for overwriting, choose Replace All.
* Now go to terminal and type:

wine <flash-program>.exe

You can also drag and drop the program from file manager to the terminal and precede it by wine command. In Ubuntu at least, you can run WINE Windows programs by double clicking it.

Your flash program should run now.

[mehulved]

1) Advertising your own site instead of posting here
2) Who's not heard about wine here?

[Pathik]

Forgot to lock it, Mehul?

[Liverpool_fan]

Originally Posted by mehulved

1) Advertising your own site instead of posting here

If you so insist I'll put instructions straight here.
Sorry for hurting you.

Originally Posted by mehulved

2) Who's not heard about wine here?

Dude, try running Digit.exe in WINE without any tweaking. I'll bang my head if it runs.

[mehulved]

Originally Posted by Anurag_panda

Dude, try running Digit.exe in WINE without any tweaking. I'll bang my head if it runs.

I don't use ****.

[Liverpool_fan]

Originally Posted by mehulved

I don't use ****.

You mean WINE.
Then better THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK.
Anyways I was not earning any revenue through the link.

Originally Posted by Pathik

Forgot to lock it, Mehul?

I don't think I was breaking Forum rules anyway.

[Krazy_About_Technology]

Thanks for the tip Anurag

[Liverpool_fan]

Originally Posted by Krazy_About_Technology

Thanks for the tip Anurag

Welcome Mate.
However, please notify me if this does not work.

[QwertyManiac]

Great.

But what's the point?

[Garbage]

Originally Posted by QwertyManiac

Great.

But what's the point?

[Liverpool_fan]

Originally Posted by QwertyManiac

Great.

But what's the point?

At least the linux users of digit can view what program are in the CD/DVD and few of the programs can be installed in WINE seamlessly.
More this proves the fact that Linux is so much superior to Windows that even if stuff is not designed for it, it will still run it efficiently.
When I wrote the letter to the folks at Digit, they said it was impossible to do this.
I proved them wrong.
(You can see my letter to them in July 2007 copy of Digit)

[adi007]

will try it in my UBUNTU...thanks for the tip and yes i remember your letter to DIGIT(i used to buy during 2007 but not now)

[QwertyManiac]

Originally Posted by Anurag_panda

At least the linux users of digit can view what program are in the CD/DVD and few of the programs can be installed in WINE seamlessly.
More this proves the fact that Linux is so much superior to Windows that even if stuff is not designed for it, it will still run it efficiently.
When I wrote the letter to the folks at Digit, they said it was impossible to do this.
I proved them wrong.
(You can see my letter to them in July 2007 copy of Digit)

Its still impossible, only that you used Wine to do it. Any native way to execute that flash code and then you can prove you did it in the right way. By the way, SWF and FLV codes have gone open source.

[Liverpool_fan]

Originally Posted by QwertyManiac

Its still impossible, only that you used Wine to do it. Any native way to execute that flash code and then you can prove you did it in the right way. By the way, SWF and FLV codes have gone open source.

WINE runs natively in Linux and on top of it I ran Digit interface, in a way it is only a port. And how can you assert I can run .EXE in Linux without WINE. I do not know the source code of Digit OS anyway.
WINE is GPL and open source and I do not know why it is not the right way to run DigitOS(read: a Windows only application) in Linux?

[mehulved]

Originally Posted by Anurag_panda

More this proves the fact that Linux is so much superior to Windows that even if stuff is not designed for it, it will still run it efficiently.

No it just proves that a determined OSS community can do a lot. It has nothing much to do with linux more to do with wine developers team.

[QwertyManiac]

Originally Posted by Anurag_panda

WINE runs natively in Linux and on top of it I ran Digit interface, in a way it is only a port. And how can you assert I can run .EXE in Linux without WINE. I do not know the source code of Digit OS anyway.
WINE is GPL and open source and I do not know why it is not the right way to run DigitOS(read: a Windows only application) in Linux?

You can run .EXEs on Linux if they are standard code. I was not talking about Digit's source code, I was talking about Adobe.

abc@def ~ $ ./Hello.exe
Hello World!
abc@def ~ $

There you go, I just ran an .exe on Linux. Do you now understand what a .exe actually means?

// Compiled with VS 2005

[Liverpool_fan]

Originally Posted by QwertyManiac

You can run .EXEs on Linux if they are standard code. I was not talking about Digit's source code, I was talking about Adobe.

abc@def ~ $ ./Hello.exe
Hello World!
abc@def ~ $

There you go, I just ran an .exe on Linux. Do you now understand what a .exe actually means?

// Compiled with VS 2005

For that the code must not contain a specific Windows or Mac code.
And for your information, the EXE code you executed is surely been marked as executable and even if you rename it as .txt or .doc or .odt it will still execute.
In Linux code will executes not because of its extension but because it has been marked as executable using chmod.
If you show the source code of the program it might have only generic headers like iostream, etc. which all common in all gcc, borland, VS or any other compiler. Now try compiling say a .NET or MFC based program and try to run in Linux without WINE.

[Faun]

Originally Posted by QwertyManiac

You can run .EXEs on Linux if they are standard code. I was not talking about Digit's source code, I was talking about Adobe.

abc@def ~ $ ./Hello.exe
Hello World!
abc@def ~ $

There you go, I just ran an .exe on Linux. Do you now understand what a .exe actually means?

// Compiled with VS 2005

i thought extensions doesn't matter in linux (even for image, audio and video) as long as the file has executable attribute

[Liverpool_fan]

Originally Posted by T159

i thought extensions doesn't matter in linux (even for image, audio and video) as long as the file has executable attribute

Yes. Extensions do not matter in Linux at all. In fact in GNOME even if you rename an ogg Music file to odt it will still consider it as an audio file and not a document.

Originally Posted by QwertyManiac

Its still impossible, only that you used Wine to do it. Any native way to execute that flash code and then you can prove you did it in the right way. By the way, SWF and FLV codes have gone open source.

Well they have to give the FLV or SWF with their CD as well.

[mehulved]

Why do you want to go to hell to run something which digit doesn't want linux users to be allowed?
They ignore linux users, we should respond back and ignore them.

[QwertyManiac]

Originally Posted by T159

i thought extensions doesn't matter in linux (even for image, audio and video) as long as the file has executable attribute

Exactly, while Windows is very dependent on it. I just don't like the idea of people saying they can't run .exe files on Linux, when they must be saying Windows Programs more specifically. Gives an impression that they "know" stuff.

[Liverpool_fan]

Originally Posted by mehulved

Why do you want to go to hell to run something which digit doesn't want linux users to be allowed?

I don't think they do not want linux users to run digit interface but I think they do not wish to bother with it.
Yeah, as such this was not needed but I suppose it doesn't harm if you manage to run it like this, does it?

Originally Posted by mehulved

They ignore linux users, we should respond back and ignore them.

Well I have written letters to the folks at digit time and again to include more linux stuff and while most of the time they ignored, they also made false promises that they will work for an HTML interface.
Perhaps we SHOULD ignore them.

Originally Posted by QwertyManiac

Exactly, while Windows is very dependent on it. I just don't like the idea of people saying they can't run .exe files on Linux, when they must be saying Windows Programs more specifically. Gives an impression that they "know" stuff.

Well .EXE programs are generally Windows/DOS programs.
In Linux files have to attributed as executable. Of course .EXE files will run under Linux if it is not Windows specific code and it is either executed by sh command or attributed as executable.

[Pat]

I see no point in the discussion..Anurag found something and shared it with us and thats very nice of him! Also the points made by everyone are valid and yet it seems like a big argument going on here!

[Dark Star]

Who really cares I don't even use Wine

[slugger]

Originally Posted by mehulved

Why do you want to go to hell to run something which digit doesn't want linux users to be allowed?
They ignore linux users, we should respond back and ignore them.

d same reason people use Hackintosh

proof of concept.....or simply take a tech pangaa