Any chance for update the Linux appimage version ?

[Augusto]

Hello Tux and Raine users.
Thanks for reading my topic.
Linux appimage works very well in Ubuntu Noble 24.04.
Appimage version continue being 0.95.5.
Any chance of releasing an appimage new updated version ?
Have an nice week.

[Tux]

I don't know if you are the only one using this, but at least you are the only one talking about it !

Ok, good idea because raine development is slowing down so it's a good idea to make a last appimage.

Now the problem is that I didn't keep a script to build the appimage so I need to find how I did it last time, it was 2 years ago (!)
and I don't have any virtualbox image of a linux distribution now so I'll have to download this ubuntu iso to have something to test it on at least...
So it will take time !

I saw that some projects manage to build automatically some appimage on github each time they have a new commit, I don't think I could use the same trick here, but maybe I should try !

edit : and I would say installing this latest ubuntu on a virtual machine is not a nice experience :
 - required safe graphics option for some reason (black screen during boot otherwise)
 - the installation just froze, apparently it was because it requires more than 2 Gb of ram just to be able to run the installer !
 - the installation takes an insane amount of time, it's supposed to be the default / miniaml install, well it's eating my partition, gigabyte after gigabyte ! and ti's telling a ton of lies while doing so : ideal for games, well it runs probably well for games, but it's still windows which is ideal for games (it's even the main windows use for me and for some others), 66% of devs prefer ubuntu : apparently it comes out from some questions from 2020, wonder where they asked them. From what I know most kernel devs use arch because of its crazy update speed, and it's right that it's impressive and works very well with as little modification as possible on anything, a lot of debian users moved to arch too some time ago because of a problem with systemd... !
Anyway, if it freezes again, or fills my whole partition, I'll try with mint instead, at least that one is smaller !
Try to boot arch some day, when it says minimal, it's nothing comparable to this !

[Tux]

Done !

I finally switched to linux mint, which is based on ubuntu but with some more usable interface (at least for me) and it gave me less problems too, except its very long installation time !

Anyway you get 2 appimage packages for 0.97.5, which means the current version in git, I didn't plan to release now, but why not ?
I'll make the windows binaries tonight or tomorrow, got enough building and configuration for now, with a proper announcement, nothing major in it, mainly some scripts updates, but lots of them to fix some long standing problems which means that not enough people are using them otherwise they would have been reported by now. It's a shame, these scripts are not only about cheats, they sometimes allow to see things you wouldn't see without them in a game ! And ffman1985 added some too. And mer-curious updated some romset to its latest version.

I guess you are using the 64 bits version ? Well the 32 bits version seems surprisingly easy to run, see the comments on the download page, just 2 basic packages to install 1st to get a good amount of base packages for i386, and everything should be fine !

There will be another update tomorrow because I forgot some debug code in the launcher for the i386 version and forgot to update hiscore.dat and history.dat inside... Also ffman1985 managed to contribute a few more scripts a few seconds after I posted this !

I never found why the vbox shared dirs didn't work in ubuntu or in mint this time, I did it with a nfs mount instead, I don't know what they messed, the problem is probably in ubuntu, and since mint is based on it... ! Anyway...