Enigma now ported to maemo
 

Update (01/27/2009 ) :
Master of Gizmo Till Harbaum has done a build of the latest svn source code and pushed it to maemo-extras. This build contains upstream performance increases, maemo bindings, and Tills graphics/menus/and packaging and proper xerces libs distribution. As a user of this game myself, thanks Till! I assume he also includes support for his Tilt accelerometer discussed here.

Primary Download Method : Download from maemo extras repo

Alternate Distribution (ext2 appliance) : If you have my isomount package installed, you can download this latest build in an autorunnable chroot appliance by extracting this 25meg tar.gz file to a directory such as '/media/mmc2/fsimgs/' and then creating a personal menu shortcut such as 'ext2run /media/mmc2/fsimgs/enigma-svn1477-75meg.ext2'

The above ext2 uses Till's build which depends on libosso and dbus, so if for some reason it doesnt run (due to missing /var/lib/dbus/machine-id file on main fs), you can use this alternate ext2 image

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If you are interested in seeing more you can browse the site here or even download the desktop version to see what its like :
http://www.nongnu.org/enigma/

User manaual : http://www.nongnu.org/enigma/manual/enigma.pdf

Its a lot of strategy, alot of arcade/finesse, and -alot- of levels... like 1000 levels. It has great level browser too (although you need to wait while it generates thumbnails).

Controls are :
Stylus : drag to move ball
DPad left/right : increase/decrease ball speed
- : Cycle to next inventory item
FullScreen : Use inventory item
+ : Skip to next level
Escape : return to menu

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Well i made a minor release to reduce some mouse jumpiness... although to completely guarantee no jumpiness make sure when lifting stylus that you set it down in a slightly different area of the screen. I also removed a small unneeded library file.

In case anyone is wondering, i wanted this game because it truly is 'Desktop/UMPC' class running fairly well on the 800. This is truly a commercial quality game that you can spend many hours on... perfect to have available for long trips, etc.

So while i no longer carry my UMPC when im mobile, this is one more app which i don't have to give up. This should also be good for OS2008 and/or 810... the extra 80mhz and/or more internal memory should allow this to run the more complicated levels even better.

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I cant wait to try this. Games are always a great addition for the IT.

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Hmm, today i got my shiny new n800 and couldn't wait to install enigma. I installed the ReadyToRun package. It was added to the menu, but if i select the entry nothing happens. Not even the small "program is loading" thing is being shown.

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Hmm, do you have xterm installed? If so try running enigma from there... If there are errors let me know what they say.

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Wow. I've always thought that if Enigma got ported to the touch screen it would definitely be a perfect fit. You just proved that right. Good work! :)

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I was expecting this to be some lib dependency problem, so i installed an xterm as you suggested. It's missing libSDL_ttf-2.0.so.0

Now i have to find a repository to get that from ... shouldn't be too difficult.

Thanks,
MoG

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Ok, got it from "repository.maemo.org bora free" by installing tuxpaint from there. For some reason i wasn't offered to install the lib seperately, but i already knew that tuxpaint relied on it as well and i found that tuxpaint was installable.

The game is running fine. Now it's time to think about a port of my tilt dongle (http://www.harbaum.org/till/palm/adxl202)

Thanks again!

BTW: Would you mind putting the source code online as well?

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Well my enigma installers work on os2008.

As master of gizmo mentioned though, you will need libsdlttf2 or it just wont launch. This is same for 2007 as 2008 i just never noticed because i had it installed on 07.

I got that library by using redpillmode and installing it. not sure what repo it came from i only added memo repository chinook, maemo hackers chinook, and maemo extras (bora? quiver added)