Updated Installers for Loki-Software Games

These installers are working with Kubuntu 11.04:

• airline tycoon deluxe
• civilization: call to power
• eric's ultimate solitaire
• railroad tycoon II
• heavy gear II
• heavy metal: fakk2
• heretic II
• kohan: immortal sovereigns
• machinarium (full)
• myth II: soulblighter
• railroad tycoon II
• robin hood
• simcity 3000

Thanks a lot.

Just tested the SoF installer on Ubuntu 10.10 x86. As it is an OSS game there is no sound so the installer needs to include a fix for this. The rest is working fine.

Thanks. I just uploaded an updated installer for internal testing. Have fun testing it.

Successfully installed and running Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Planetary Pack from Loki Games using smac_6.0a-english_x86.mojo.run (currently available for download from beta installers).

Running Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit (my somewhat dated system)
uses onboard intel graphics

Installation experience:

• Installed xephyr
• Followed the directions on the FAQ page regarding the .mojo.run installers and encountered really no problems during installation.
• Used directions in this discussion: http://liflg.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1037

Gameplay Experience:
sounds, video, gameplay worked on first try with some minor differences based on .sh used (see below)
native resolution 1680x1050, game runs (apparently) 1024x768
played several turns without crashes

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vick@steelHorse:~/smac$ ./smacpack.sh

successfully runs launcher
menu animates correctly
sounds and menu options work correctly on first try
utilizes widescreen appropriately

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vick@steelHorse:~/smac$ ./smac.sh

successfully runs alpha centauri
initial flicker, then video and gameplay uses widescreen appropriately
Sound worked on first try
on exit, does not return X to previous resolution (no big deal)

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vick@steelHorse:~/smac$ ./smacx.sh

successfully runs alpha centauri alien cross fire expansion
no problems with intro video, sounds, gameplay, all work on first try
exits gracefully

ultimately, an amazing job
thank you guys so much for all the hard work
I'm a complete novice to SMAC, but I'm glad to get a chance to learn it on Linux (natively!)

Thanks for the feedback.

Does the Heavy Gear 2 installer also run with the windows cd of the game?

Hi randomas,

no it does not. It requires the Linux version from Loki.


Regards
-Steffen

Oh well thought so ... Pity ... I had even made a multiplayer map for the game at the time ... I wonder if anyone still plays it ...

Thanks for the info!

Hi randomas,

I can't answer that, but I doubt that a lot of people are still playing Heavy Gear 2


Regards
-Steffen

Hey there, I am a bit a noob to linux but I'll do the best I can.

First off, thanks to those that put these installers together, very nice work!

Now, I am having some problems with Alpha Centauri, I am running CrunchBang (a Debian distro) on an Inspiron N5010 with an Intel CPU.

The installation seems to run fine, until the final step, I'll show you what I have in the terminal:

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...smac: 2% (total progress: 96%)
smac.dynamic: 4% (total progress: 97%)
smacpack: 5% (total progress: 98%)
smacx: 2% (total progress: 98%)
smacx.dynamic: 3% (total progress: 99%)
Installing
Metadata
liflg_org-smac_1.desktop: 100% (total progress: 99%)
NOTICE: Failed to install desktop menu item
[hit enter]

Incomplete installation. We will revert any changes we made.

NOTICE: Couldn't restore some files. Your existing installation is likely damaged.
[hit enter]


Then, nothing works, not smacpack, not smac, and certainly not smacx. The problem is, I can see that the install was 99% successful!

Please tell me if you are using the 32 or 64bit version. I'll test the installer ASAP on this distribution.

sorry, 64-bit.

Hello again,

I had another go at installing SMAC today, and by closing the terminal before the installer could "revert the changes" I managed to boot the game!

However, I then had these problems;

1)No sound
2)Once I loaded a world and entered the name of my first city, the game crashed and closed. I tried 2-3 times to no avail.

Hey,

Thank you for your awesome smac installer. I spend many hours this past week hacking away at getting smac to run before I found your installer. A few questions.

1/ Does your patch add the 6.0b patch?
2/ The loki compat libs you ship are old- they have been updated to 1.5. I copied version 1.5 and didn't have any problems.

A few hints and suggestions for motleyque:

1)No sound
2)Once I loaded a world and entered the name of my first city, the game crashed and closed. I tried 2-3 times to no avail.

1/ For me, sdl libs didn't seem to work with alsa, or pulseaudio, when i tried editing SDL_AUDIODRIVER to "alsa", "esd", and "pulse". Maybe the sdl libs were not compiled with these enabled? I don't know. I gave up and installed the oss audio driver via "sudo modprobe snd_pcm_oss".

2/ I'm not sure that your installer completed. It sounds like you are running the staticly linked version of smac which shipped with the smac cd. You need to run smac(|x|pack).sh (as installed by the installer found here), or smac(x|pack).dynamic with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to the path of loki_compat. The *.dynamic executables are installed after you patch smac to 6.0b. Regardless, I believe this error is caused by the compsite extenions in Xorg. If you are dead set on continuing you can run smac in Xephyr, disable composite in X.org, or try disabling in compiz http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1206578. N.B. I only tried running it in Xephyr. Google should show you how to do this.