Remember the Falling Sand Game?

[Mazza558]

Well, this program's way cooler...

http://siebn.de/linux.jpg

It's actually a Windows program, meaning you need Wine to run it in Linux. Luckily, it runs AMAZINGLY well, and is great fun.


Install Wine from the repos
Download Burning Sand from HERE (http://siebn.de/download/burningsand20070320.zip)
Extract it into any folder
Right Click on Burning Sand.exe and click "run with Wine Windows Emulator"
You can only close it by intentionally crashing it (as far as I know) - click on the "save" icon at the top and click "cancel".


For more info, go here:

http://siebn.de/

[hessiess]

cannot load font error

[Mazza558]

cannot load font error

Have you got the Microsoft fonts installed?

[LaRoza]

http://enigmasand.com/pyro2.html

Online version as well.

[spupy]

Please, guys, i have exams in two weeks!!!

coughthankscough

[smartbei]

I am also unable to run the application due to "Couldn't laod font." (Yes, either Wine or BurningSand has a spelling error).

I have msttcorefonts already installed.

[Mazza558]

I am also unable to run the application due to "Couldn't laod font." (Yes, either Wine or BurningSand has a spelling error).

I have msttcorefonts already installed.

Which version of WIne are you using?

[smartbei]

Apparently 0.9.46 - (the current default install via aptitude).

[Onyros]

http://www.piettes.com/fallingsandgame/index.html

This one runs natively in Linux, and it's great fun... :)

[FuturePilot]

http://www.piettes.com/fallingsandgame/index.html

This one runs natively in Linux, and it's great fun... :)

Anyone get it to work?

fsg-4.4: error while loading shared libraries: libpng.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[loudnlownoma]

Nice! Subscribing to check out when I get home from work. I can't imagine how much time I wasted with the online version before the came up and upgraded all of our PC's and "forgot" to load/update Java and Flash....

Although I was able to run across a Pocket Sand a while back - very limited in features or options, but some of the original flavor to it. Site seems to be temporarily closed, but I still have the .zip laying around for anyone looking for a great time-waster on their portable drive...

[init1]

Anyone get it to work?

fsg-4.4: error while loading shared libraries: libpng.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Just do a


sudo apt-get install libpng3

and it should run fine.

[FuturePilot]

Yes that did work however that is an old and no longer supported version of libpng. I'm trying to recompile it against the newer version but I'm not getting too far :(

[FuturePilot]

Ah. It just needed some linkage :D

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/libpng.so.3
should get it working :)

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/7867/fallingsandgamewj2.th.png (http://img291.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fallingsandgamewj2.png)

[icechen1]

Wxsand is better:http://www.piettes.com/fallingsandgame/. it got Gtk and you can download more objects over Internet!
I think i downloaded an older version of libpng(libpng3) to make it work.

[Mazza558]

Apparently 0.9.46 - (the current default install via aptitude).

Ah, that's probably why. It works on 0.9.55 for me.

[§cinc§]

Thanks for the link.
This game is hours of fun.

[neilnapier]

Sorry for posting in an about 8 month old topic... but this isn't bumping as "bumping" implies it is an unnessisary post, which of course it isn't.

BurningSand2 is available for Linux.

BurningSand2 is stable and despite what you have said BS2 is better for SOOOO many reasons. These include.

1. Moddable, as is WxSand. But BS2 can have 32K elements and 1000 elements per interaction.
2. It has a higher FPS and is much more moddable, so much so that it can be made into almost any program.
3. It is open source so if you need fit you can edit it (its written in C++)

Here is the link the the Linux compatible version:

http://siebn.de/burningsand/linux/

It has been confirmed that it works.

I felt that I should "bump" this rather than make a new topic.

I hope you try BS because it is excellent.

[init1]

Sorry for posting in an about 8 month old topic... but this isn't bumping as "bumping" implies it is an unnessisary post, which of course it isn't.

BurningSand2 is available for Linux.

BurningSand2 is stable and despite what you have said BS2 is better for SOOOO many reasons. These include.

1. Moddable, as is WxSand. But BS2 can have 32K elements and 1000 elements per interaction.
2. It has a higher FPS and is much more moddable, so much so that it can be made into almost any program.
3. It is open source so if you need fit you can edit it (its written in C++)

Here is the link the the Linux compatible version:

http://siebn.de/burningsand/linux/

It has been confirmed that it works.

I felt that I should "bump" this rather than make a new topic.

I hope you try BS because it is excellent.
Nice, works fine in 8.10

[0per4t0r]

I love this game, and I run it off my flash drive thru wine, and it works great! Also, pyro sand 2 is not the same as BS2.