I take it back about java8. After researching and experimenting I got it working in LinuxMint 19.1. I ignored the Linux Mint software manager and downloaded from the web site unpacking into my own directory tree. Then I created a script file in the freecol directory as follows: cd ~/DOCUMENTS/bin/freecol bash /home/johnb/DOCUMENTS/bin/freecol/freecol.cmd Then created a launcher pointed at that script. (Icon is in the data directory) Started OK and I resumed a game in progress and played for about...
I take it back about java8. After researching and experimenting I got it working in LinuxMint 19.1. I ignored the Linux Mint software manager and downloaded the web site unpacking into my own directory tree. Then I created a script file in the freecol directory as follows: cd ~/DOCUMENTS/bin/freecol bash /home/johnb/DOCUMENTS/bin/freecol/freecol.cmd Then created a launcher pointed at that script. (Icon is in the data directory) Started OK and I resumed a game in progress and played for about 15 min...
I'm having the same problem with Linux Mint 19.1. Problem appears to be related to the version of Java. The freecol launch script says (comment) ~ requires java 8. Ubuntu 18 and/or Linux Mint 19 use java 10 or 11. Attempting to install java 8 is no go with "java 8 is not compatable with bionic". This is sad. I've been playing the game with my daughter since she could read. Guess we'll have to wait until - if and when - freecol updates it's java. OTOH I heard somewhere that the maintainers are porting...
The version I'm having trouble with is indeed 0.11.6. My error. I wrote in my CherryTree eNotebook then copied to SourceForge. In doing so I made a typing error somewhere. I didn't mention that I'm using the Linux version. Is it possible that the problem is exclusive to that? I can still reproduce the problem every time.
Save/Continue fails between 0.11.37 and Nightly (2018-03-22)
120 notes lost in NN after bad sync to EN.