FreeCiv SDL for Fremantle
 

This was my favorite game on the N810 -- thank you so much to Bundyo and Mikkov -- so I was hoping to get it working with the N900. It worked pretty well after removing the maemo-select-menu-location stuff, but tapping the upper left reacted as if the switch button had been hit, so it was impossible to get to preferences; I 'modified it' (read:set up the launch script so it would mess with the config files) so it would run in a window (you can change it to full screen, but it changes back each time you run it).

Anyway, here's my quick and hackish repackaging for the N900; you'll need all three files:


freeciv-client-sdl_2.1.8-0maemo1.0.1_armel.deb
freeciv-server_2.1.8-0maemo1.0.1_armel.deb
freeciv-data_2.1.8-0maemo1.0.2_all.deb
http://rickybrent.com/maemo/fremantle-freeciv.png

Re: New Port: FreeCiv SDL
 

nice work, thanks.

Re: New Port: FreeCiv SDL
 

Thanks. A question, though:
Are they optified?

Thanks!
Corwin

Re: New Port: FreeCiv SDL
 

No, I only learned what "optified" was just now. :(

I'll be updating that shortly because, well... I ran out of rootfs space. :eek:

Re: New Port: FreeCiv SDL
 

You made my day :) Thanks a lot for your efforts, it is very much appreciated.
Maybe you can take care to get it into the extras-devel repository (first, testing and extras later))? I am sure qwerty12 can tell you how to do that ;) ;) ;)

Best regards,
Corwin

Re: New Port: FreeCiv SDL
 

Ah, good job. I had this on my list of games to get onto N900 but now i have one less to work on. :)

You can "optify" it manually or use the utility intended for the purpose. For uqm i just changed the install rules in the debian packaging to copy the files to /opt/uqm instead of /usr/* etc, and then changed the .desktop file to execute the binary in /opt/uqm instead of /usr/....

Re: New Port: FreeCiv SDL
 

any chance of 2.1.10, or are you sticking to reconverting the OS2008 version? :)

Re: New Port: FreeCiv SDL
 

I went with manually... duplicating all the work the utility does, I think. Symlinks, the works. :o Wooops. It made sense at the time, honest, although just having the desktop file look to /opt makes a lot more.

Here are optified versions of the files (data probably does not need to be updated, also I edited the post above):

freeciv-client-sdl_2.1.8-0maemo1.0.1_armel.deb
freeciv-server_2.1.8-0maemo1.0.1_armel.deb
freeciv-data_2.1.8-0maemo1.0.2_all.deb

Regarding getting it into extras and updating it -- all I did was modify the diablo version so it would run on fremantle; although I wouldn't mind helping more. I'm not trying to steal Mikkov's project or anything. :) It does look like 2.1.9 (and 10) have some cool new features, though, so I might try that. Mostly I just wanted Freeciv on my tablet again and didn't want to wait.

*edit* Ooops -- I mean Mikkov's! All I did was take *his version* and modify the scripts.:( Wow, that's embarrassing.

Re: New Port: FreeCiv SDL
 

Mikkov stated that he has no intention of updating this for Fremantle(link), so don't fear that. I had already inquired and discovered that, so whatever you do on this is just progress on the project we all want to see done. No sense in not starting with what works, either.

I do intend on spending time getting this into extras if nobody else does, but i have a responsibility to get uqm fully ported (+universal control == accelerometer/joystick driver) first, so don't wait for me if you want to do it. ;)

Re: New Port: FreeCiv SDL
 

Yeah, someone should really put it on Extras-testing.