Stickman does not work directly on Linux or Mac. The alternative is to use dual boot, parallel desktop or a virtual machine. VirtualBox is a program which let you run an operating system inside a window on Windows, Linux or Mac. Stickman is tested with Windows XP in VirtualBox on Ubuntu (a Linux OS). In the future there are plans to go multi-platform, most probably by using Mono instead of the .NET runtime. The first step is to learn more about alternative APIs like GTK. Most of the code can run using the Mono version of System.Windows.Forms and System.Drawing. The moving toward multi-platform will not fast, as Stickman has a very large codebase which uses many different techniques. With time it one by one section of code will be updated to better support open platforms. It also might happen it will move from .NET 1.1 to .NET 2.0+, because this is better supported in MonoDevelop. It is too early to say whether full porting will be done yet, an alternative is to reuse code to create a new software package. |
I wonder if there are ubuntu users who want to animate in stickman,it could be nice if stickman could run in linux too.