Mercury Change Anything?
With the Rhizomatica Mercury coming out, does that change any plans on an actual native linux version of VarAC?
I would love to see all of this working together without the wine overhead and muck!
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VarAC on Linux/Pi/Mac
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Tag Icons in Beacon List on Linux
I'm running Linux Mint 22.3, and VarAC works fine, and has been for years, now running 13.2.7 with Wine 11.0. However, I find that the icons in the Tag column are not properly displayed. I have installed emoji fonts in Wine, and the emojis do properly display when sending/receiving emojis with another station in the message windows. Here is a screen capture showing the icon display failure:
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irad d
Mar 20
This is the VarAC academy graduate "STAR" that for some reason is not visible on Linux. This is why on Linux I replaced all the emojis with letters but this was was left un-handled. I wll take care of it on the next version.
Thank you for the heads-up
Irad
VarAC fails to open on Ubuntu Mate
Here's the info from the terminal window:
Unhandled Exception:
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies.
File name: 'System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'
[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies.
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oh8xat
Feb 11
do you run it in a wine instance?
have you installed fonts?
how exactly do you try to start it?
Hi,
I'd like to share my experience installing VARA HF and VarAC on a fresh Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon system using Wine.
Because VARA/VarAC behave slightly differently depending on whether a 32-bit or 64-bit Wine prefix is used, I documented the procedures separately in two PDF guides - One for Wine32 and another for Wine64.
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Gene Ishikawa
Apr 01
Hi Alister,
Great to see that you were successful with the installation—and even created a set of installation scripts which is fantastic!
I’d definitely love to use them for my future re-installations. It would be great if you could send them to ji1bqw.gene@gmail.com
Thanks! Gene
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Rhizomatica Mercury is a great addition to the world digital modes, but it doesnot provides the level of ressiliance to low power/low snr like VARA. as long as it is relying on the FREEDV protocol, it will not be able to truly repalce VARA. I was in touch with those guys and I support their work but Its a good mode for high power/ good SNR links at the moment.