Zep's Dreamland: Linux complete!

Zep's Dreamland: Linux complete!

Ultio

Member #1,336

April 2001

It's official, the Linux port of Zep's Dreamland is now complete. It should run on most flavors of Linux without a problem. However, if you run into some strange issue that is not a specific driver related issue, please let me know. Nothing new has changed in the actual gameplay or levels for anyone who has played the Windows/OS X versions and hoping for something new.

Enjoy.

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SonShadowCat

Member #1,548

September 2001

I'll try it out right now.

Edit: WHAT?!?! No source?

Bad. It won't run on my machine. Mandrake 10. You should really release source so we can compile it and increase the chance of making it work.

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Ultio

Member #1,336

April 2001

Doesn't run on your Mandrake 10? It ran on two other users versions of Mandrake 10.
(and no, no source for you!)

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SonShadowCat

Member #1,548

September 2001

How am I to play without source to compile . Any special libs that it requires?

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Ultio

Member #1,336

April 2001

Nope. I statically linked everything I possibly could into it (the only library is uses is Allegro anyways). I'm afraid if it doesn't run you're just out of luck! Sorry! I'm serious though, I'm not releasing source at this point in time. Sad, but true.

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SonShadowCat

Member #1,548

September 2001

Lets see how many others complain before you release it .

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Ultio

Member #1,336

April 2001

Yeah, it will take more than every Linux user who can't play the precompiled binary; that's for sure.

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SonShadowCat

Member #1,548

September 2001

No linux fans for you.

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Ultio

Member #1,336

April 2001

I'll have them when the time is right to release the sourcecode, if ever. It's not my fault linux comes in about 50-million different flavors.

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Kitty Cat

Member #2,815

October 2002

Runs fine here on Gentoo. Cool game. I got stuck though, so I decided to quit and bring some praise.

SSC: Why doesn't it run? What errors do you get?

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CGamesPlay

Member #2,559

July 2002

Write an ebuild for it, submit it to portage, and I will install

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SonShadowCat

Member #1,548

September 2001

It's your fault for depriving us of your game . Oh well, I can always play it in windows ^_^.

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Ultio

Member #1,336

April 2001

Glad you enjoyed it thusfar. What level did you get stuck on?
CGames: PM me with more information about ebuild please.

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SonShadowCat

Member #1,548

September 2001

I don't get any errors at all. It looks as if its going to start but then just quits.

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Ultio

Member #1,336

April 2001

SSC: Maybe it's having issues doing windowed mode? You can manually set it to load up in fullscreen mode by editing: data/settings.txt. Change the last line from 1 (windowed) to 0 (fullscreen).

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Kitty Cat

Member #2,815

October 2002

Quote:

It's your fault for depriving us of your game . Oh well, I can always play it in windows ^_^.

I still would like to know what problems you were having. I don't think it's a dynamic lib problem:

$ ldd ZepsDreamland
        not a dynamic executable

I'd like to know in case I ever decide to release a binary for Linux. Might be a driver problem... is ZepsDreamland able to use Linux Console drivers (ie. SVGALib, fbcon, etc)? If your (Ultio's) static lib build of Allegro doesn't support them, then it won't work for us either. Same goes for any other driver.

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SonShadowCat

Member #1,548

September 2001

It does try to start in fullscreen mode. The screen goes all black as though it were about to start then crashes.

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CGamesPlay

Member #2,559

July 2002

ebuild is gentoo's package construction/management system. It handle dependencies, source compilation, etc.

Allegro 4.1.17's ebuild:

1# Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation
2# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
3# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-libs/allegro/allegro-4.1.17.ebuild,v 1.2 2005/01/19 00:43:00 wolf31o2 Exp $
4 
5IUSE="static mmx sse oss alsa esd arts X fbcon svga tetex doc"
6 
7inherit flag-o-matic
8 
9DESCRIPTION="cross-platform multimedia library"
10HOMEPAGE="http://alleg.sourceforge.net/"
11SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/alleg/${P}.tar.gz"
12 
13LICENSE="Allegro"
14SLOT="0"
15#-amd64, -sparc: inportb, outportb, outportw undefined
16KEYWORDS="~alpha -amd64 ~ia64 ~ppc -sparc ~x86"
17 
18RDEPEND="alsa? ( media-libs/alsa-lib )
19  esd? ( media-sound/esound )
20  arts? ( kde-base/arts )
21  X? ( virtual/x11 )
22  svga? ( media-libs/svgalib )"
23 
24DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
25  >=sys-apps/sed-4
26  tetex? ( virtual/tetex )"
27 
28src_unpack() {
29  unpack ${A}
30 
31  sed -i \
32    -e 's/&_oss_\(numfrags\|fragsize\)/NULL/' \
33    "${S}/setup/setup.c" \
34    || die "sed failed"
35}
36 
37src_compile() {
38  filter-flags -fPIC -fprefetch-loop-arrays
39  econf \
40    --enable-linux \
41    --enable-vga \
42    $(use_enable static) \
43    $(use_enable static staticprog) \
44    $(use_enable mmx) \
45    $(use_enable sse) \
46    $(use_enable oss ossdigi) \
47    $(use_enable oss ossmidi) \
48    $(use_enable alsa alsadigi) \
49    $(use_enable alsa alsamidi) \
50    $(use_enable esd esddigi) \
51    $(use_enable arts artsdigi) \
52    $(use_with X x) \
53    $(use_enable X xwin-shm) \
54    $(use_enable X xwin-vidmode) \
55    $(use_enable X xwin-dga) \
56    $(use_enable X xwin-dga2) \
57    $(use_enable fbcon) \
58    $(use_enable svga svgalib) \
59    || die
60 
61  emake -j1 CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" || die "emake failed"
62 
63  if use tetex ; then
64    addwrite /var/lib/texmf
65    addwrite /usr/share/texmf
66    addwrite /var/cache/fonts
67    make docs-dvi docs-ps || die
68  fi
69}
70 
71src_install() {
72  addpredict /usr/share/info
73  make DESTDIR="${D}" \
74    install \
75    install-gzipped-man \
76    install-gzipped-info \
77    || die "make install failed"
78 
79  # Different format versions of the Allegro documentation
80  dodoc AUTHORS CHANGES THANKS readme.txt todo.txt
81  use tetex && dodoc docs/allegro.{dvi,ps}
82  use doc && dodoc examples/*
83  dohtml docs/html/*
84  docinto txt
85  dodoc docs/txt/*.txt
86  docinto rtf
87  dodoc docs/rtf/*.rtf
88  docinto build
89  dodoc docs/build/*.txt
90}

So..... it looks like it's got functions for the various tasks involved.... Let's try a binary ebuild, since that's what you'll be using.

Firefox 1.0's ebuild:

1# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation
2# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
3# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-www/mozilla-firefox-bin/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.ebuild,v 1.2 2004/11/18 21:53:15 agriffis Exp $
4 
5inherit nsplugins eutils mozilla-launcher
6 
7IUSE="gnome"
8 
9DESCRIPTION="The Mozilla Firefox Web Browser"
10SRC_URI="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-${PV}.tar.gz"
11HOMEPAGE="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox"
12RESTRICT="nostrip"
13 
14KEYWORDS="-* x86 amd64"
15SLOT="0"
16LICENSE="MPL-1.1 NPL-1.1"
17 
18DEPEND="virtual/libc"
19RDEPEND="virtual/x11
20  x86? (
21    >=sys-libs/lib-compat-1.0-r2
22    >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.2
23  )
24  amd64? (
25    >=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-1.0
26    >=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-1.0
27  )
28  >=net-www/mozilla-launcher-1.22"
29 
30S=${WORKDIR}/firefox
31 
32src_install() {
33  # Install firefox in /opt
34  dodir /opt
35  mv ${S} ${D}/opt/firefox
36 
37  # Plugin path setup (rescuing the existing plugins)
38  src_mv_plugins /opt/firefox/plugins
39 
40  # Fixing permissions
41  chown -R root:root ${D}/opt/firefox
42 
43  # mozilla-launcher-1.8 supports -bin versions
44  dodir /usr/bin
45  dosym /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher /usr/bin/firefox-bin
46 
47  # Install icon and .desktop for menu entry
48  if use gnome; then
49    insinto /usr/share/pixmaps
50    doins ${FILESDIR}/icon/mozillafirefox-bin-icon.png
51    # Fix bug 54179: Install .desktop file into /usr/share/applications
52    # instead of /usr/share/gnome/apps/Internet (18 Jun 2004 agriffis)
53    insinto /usr/share/applications
54    doins ${FILESDIR}/icon/mozillafirefox-bin.desktop
55  fi
56 
57  # Normally firefox-bin-0.9 must be run as root once before it can
58  # be run as a normal user.  Drop in some initialized files to
59  # avoid this.
60  einfo "Extracting firefox-bin-${PV} initialization files"
61  tar xjpf ${FILESDIR}/firefox-bin-0.9-init.tar.bz2 -C ${D}/opt/firefox
62}
63 
64pkg_preinst() {
65  export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=${ROOT}/opt/firefox
66 
67  # Remove the old plugins dir
68  pkg_mv_plugins /opt/firefox/plugins
69 
70  # Remove entire installed instance to prevent all kinds of
71  # problems... see bug 44772 for example
72  rm -rf "${MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME}"
73}
74 
75pkg_postinst() {
76  export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=${ROOT}/opt/firefox
77 
78  update_mozilla_launcher_symlinks
79}
80 
81pkg_postrm() {
82  update_mozilla_launcher_symlinks
83}

Meh. This might help, might not. Looks like you'll need to know bash to do this. Anyways, I haven't really got time to mess with it, sorry.

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Ultio

Member #1,336

April 2001

I have no idea about Linux Console drivers. I'm not that Linux oriented, to be honest.
SSC: Try modifying the file and testing both modes.

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Nivoc

Member #5,383

January 2005

It runs perfectly on my slackware 10.

except the editor. I get this error:

Error initialising sound system
Insufficient digital voices available

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Richard Phipps

Member #1,632

November 2001

Is anything being done in the Linux world to resolve these kind of problems?

Some kind of framework to integrate different linux versions for example? As in the way DirectX and OpenGL try to make a common method regardless of the actual gfx board used.

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December 2002