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      George @VictimRLSH
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      @victimrlsh Hmm. Yes, trying to compile something under box86 probably isn't going to work very well. It would probably be easier to compile it on a true x86 machine and then copy the binaries over Of course, if the source is available, I would also look to see if someone has already done the work to make it compile on ARM based devices. It would run much better that way.

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        TedMaul @George
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        @george sounds interesting / promising, thanks! I'll give it a go and report back.

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          TedMaul @George
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          @george I'm having trouble getting the new version to work; tried this:

          pi@retropie:~ $ git clone https://github.com/GeorgeMcMullen/rp-box86wine/tree/emulator /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/ext/rp-box86wineemu/
          Cloning into '/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/ext/rp-box86wineemu'...
          fatal: repository 'https://github.com/GeorgeMcMullen/rp-box86wine/tree/emulator/' not found
          
          

          Apologies, but have you got any pointers?

          Separately, I tried creating a shell script from the file that is in that branch (rp-box86wine/scriptmodules/emulators/wine.sh) and put it into a roms/wine folder, and a new system in es_systems.cfg, pointing to it, but then I was missing a file in runcommand (which, with hindsight, makes sense...)

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            George @TedMaul
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            @tedmaul Try this instead. Just need to call git in a different way.

            git clone --branch emulator https://github.com/GeorgeMcMullen/rp-box86wine /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/ext/rp-box86wineemu/
            

            You'll want to remove the any other clone you might have already done, or RetroPie Setup will complain about duplicate scripts and won't load one of them.

            Hope that helps.

            - George

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              TedMaul @George
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              @george Brilliant, thanks - I've got my emulator entry now! Wine desktop etc is running directly from that just fine - my first attempt at a shell though...

              #!/bin/bash
              wine /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/wine/Files/claw/CLAW.EXE
              

              ... resulted in a black screen with no way of exiting. I may have missed something...

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                George @TedMaul
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                @tedmaul cool. Ok, I have yet to document this, but there's now two ways to add "roms" to the Wine emulator section in Emulation Station. The first way is supposed to be a little easier as it is just a conf file.

                Create a file /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/wine/CommanderClaw.conf containing the following:

                DIRECTORY=/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/wine/Files/claw/
                PROGRAM=/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/wine/Files/claw/CLAW.EXE
                OPTIONS=
                

                The other way would be to use the shell script method. Create a file called: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/wine/CommanderClawShell.sh containing the following:

                #!/bin/bash
                xset -dpms s off s noblank
                cd "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/wine/Files/claw/"
                matchbox-window-manager &
                WINEDEBUG=-all LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/retropie/supplementary/mesa/lib/" setarch linux32 -L /opt/retropie/emulators/wine/bin/wine '/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/wine/Files/claw/CLAW.EXE'
                

                After you've created either of these files, you'll have to restart Emulation Station in order for them to be picked up.

                Hopefully one of those should work. I have a long list of games that I'm supposed to test out and haven't gotten to it yet, but Commander Claw is on the list.

                - George

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                  shavecat @George
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                  @george
                  hey ,
                  i did try claw but also get a black screen.
                  did u get it working with what u write ?
                  will check it too if so :)

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                    TedMaul @George
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                    @george Thanks, the conf file opened Wine Desktop but then kicked me out; the shell script was more promising (opened before freezing on the first level), but every subsequent attempt just opens Wine Desktop before kicking me out again (without loading the game). But it feels like progress!

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                      George @TedMaul
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                      @tedmaul interesting. When you say "Wine Desktop", do you see the Wine start menu/task bar at the bottom of the screen?

                      It does feel like progress though, especially if you were able to at least see some of the game.

                      - George

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                        George
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                        Just found out there's some kind of open source version of Commander Claw called Open Claw. @shavecat - saw your comment on Discord about it. Cool.

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                          WODAK @George
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                          I've made some videos with wine and box86 on Twister OS. Yes yes...I know it's not Retropie😁

                          Bad image and bad sound in videos....but really glad that these games are running :)

                          check the link

                          Raspberry Pi 4 - Twister OS - Wine BOX86 Multiplayer games

                          Titles:
                          Castle Crashers
                          Samurai Gunn
                          Ticky Towers
                          Nidhogg
                          Stikbold (loooooong time to load.....a bit laggy)
                          Crawl
                          Porcunipine(a bit laggy)
                          Towerfall Ascension (bad sound)

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                            retropieuser555
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                            Hey so I ran a fresh install recently and found that Fallout and Fallout2 both crash at the video/fmv screens. Is this something anyone else is finding? The games both worked around Jan/Feb for me when I first tried this out, just wondering if it's due to something changed in the newer versions of mesa,wine and box86?

                            Pi 5 4GB

                            Retroflag GPI with raspberry pi zero 2 w/ wifi

                            Retroachievements:- lovelessrapture

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                              George @retropieuser555
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                              @retropieuser555 my guess would be Mesa, as I've seen reports that different versions of Mesa are better for different games. I know that just complicates things. Do you remember which versions you were running prior vs. which versions you are running now (for Mesa, Wine, and Box86)?

                              - George

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                                retropieuser555 @George
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                                @george Honestly I've no idea, I didn't keep track of it all unfortunately. I guess it's possible to install earlier branches of mesa? Or once you've updated there's no going back without breaking other things? I know when I first did it I used your box86.sh, mesa.sh and wine.sh files you wrote in Jan/Feb time if you have copies of those about still?

                                edit: So I had a try at installing Mesa 20.3.4 but my glxinfo is still giving me Mesa 21.2. Anyone know how to totally uninstall a later version of Mesa?

                                pi@retropie:~ $ DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/glxinfo -v -B
                                name of display: :0
                                display: :0  screen: 0
                                direct rendering: Yes
                                Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
                                    Vendor: Broadcom (0x14e4)
                                    Device: V3D 4.2 (0xffffffff)
                                    Version: 21.2.0
                                    Accelerated: yes
                                    Video memory: 1546MB
                                    Unified memory: yes
                                    Preferred profile: compat (0x2)
                                    Max core profile version: 0.0
                                    Max compat profile version: 2.1
                                    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
                                    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.1
                                OpenGL vendor string: Broadcom
                                OpenGL renderer string: V3D 4.2
                                OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 21.2.0-devel (git-956d961339)
                                OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
                                
                                OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.1 Mesa 21.2.0-devel (git-956d961339)
                                OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.10
                                

                                Pi 5 4GB

                                Retroflag GPI with raspberry pi zero 2 w/ wifi

                                Retroachievements:- lovelessrapture

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                                  George @retropieuser555
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                                  @retropieuser555 I've seen reports that Mesa 21.x generally has issues, and most folks use a branch in the mesa-20.x range (including myself).

                                  It you've installed Mesa with my scripts, they should be installing in: /opt/retropie/supplementary/mesa/. This is not the standard location for Mesa, which is intentional so it doesn't create conflicts and crash things that already work.

                                  It's interesting that you're running glxinfo without providing the path to Mesa. This would either tell me that Mesa got installed in the standard location, X-Windows was launched with the path to Mesa set to somewhere else, or the RPI Foundation updated Mesa to the most recent version (least likely scenario but possible).

                                  Could you try the following:

                                  LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/retropie/supplementary/mesa/lib/" DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/glxinfo -v -B
                                  

                                  If you're still seeing v21, then the older version of Mesa did not get installed correctly. You could try to wipe out what is in the /opt/retropie/supplementary/mesa/ folder and try again.

                                  Hope that helps.

                                  - George

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                                    retropieuser555 @George
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                                    @george It's the strangest thing, when I tried as you suggested it shows that mesa is 20.3.4. So I guess I have two versions installed somehow. What's the standard mesa location? Maybe I can delete it from there.

                                    Although my .sh file is pointing to the 20.3.4 version

                                    #!/bin/bash
                                    xset -dpms s off s noblank
                                    cd "/home/pi/.wine/drive_c/GOG Games/Fallout/"
                                    matchbox-window-manager &
                                    WINEDEBUG=-all LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/retropie/supplementary/mesa/lib/" setarch linux32 -L /opt/retropie/ports/wine/bin/wine '/home/pi/.wine/drive_c/GOG Games/Fallout/falloutw.exe' -fullscreen
                                    
                                    

                                    So does this mean the game or something is overriding that and using mesa 21.x instead of the one I'm directing it towards?

                                    Pi 5 4GB

                                    Retroflag GPI with raspberry pi zero 2 w/ wifi

                                    Retroachievements:- lovelessrapture

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                                      George @retropieuser555
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                                      @retropieuser555 that is interesting. Perhaps the latest version of Mesa got updated in the regular location. I'm unable to check right now, but I guess it's possible.

                                      Could you share the output of:

                                      dpkg -l | grep libgl1-mesa
                                      

                                      That will tell us what version is installed via apt.

                                      Typically, Mesa gets installed in /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/, but I wouldn't suggest removing it from there, because it's what is running OpenGL on the entire system.

                                      - George

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                                        retropieuser555 @George
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                                        @george So it seems in the proper location it's this:-

                                        pi@retropie:~ $ dpkg -l | grep libgl1-mesa
                                        ii  libgl1-mesa-dev:armhf                19.3.2-1~bpo10+1~rpt3               armhf        transitional dummy package
                                        ii  libgl1-mesa-dri:armhf                19.3.2-1~bpo10+1~rpt3               armhf        free implementation of the OpenGL API -- DRI modules
                                        
                                        

                                        So that's 19.3.2 right?

                                        Pi 5 4GB

                                        Retroflag GPI with raspberry pi zero 2 w/ wifi

                                        Retroachievements:- lovelessrapture

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                                          George @WODAK
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                                          @wodak those are cool videos! Thanks for making them!

                                          - George

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                                            George @retropieuser555
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                                            @retropieuser555 Yes, that seems to be the default install. I'll need to check things out again.

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