[OS2008] Bos Wars
 

Bos Wars real time strategy game is available from diablo extras.

Download is about 60MB but installer will ask if you want to install data files to internal mmc. When data files are in mmc, only 1 MB of device flash memory is needed.

Game needs lots of memory, so swap is probably needed.

Please report any problems with installing.

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ooooooo pretty colors!!!!

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installation is bugged. If i press select the memory card it'll install in the device memory. i tried both options, both go to the device memory and not the mmc.

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Thanks for the report.

Could you tell if you have N800 or N810? If you have N800, is there a memory card in the internal card slot (under the battery)?

Could you also send the log after installing? Log is found from Application manager's menu Tools->Log...

Any other success or failure report about installation would be also good.

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N800 running diablo
yep i have memory cards in both slots. I assume this should work then if i were to install it on my bootable partition in the mmc since i have plenty of space? :D

log file (it was too big to be pasted here heh) i'll try installing in mmc partition

[UPDATE] Hm it worked perfectly fine on my brothers n800 and i just flashed it too. probably something buggy with my n800. lets fiddle around...

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I forgot that /usr/share/games isn't always there...

Quick fix is to create directory /usr/share/games before installing boswars. I will fix the packet too.

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installed worked fine on bro's n800 and the game looks really great! I'll test network play once i get it installed on my n800 :)

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works well on n800 with chinook also.

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bit slow for me, although i havent played it on the pc so i cant tell if its supposed to be that slow... n800 diablo

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Updated package with install fix is now available.

Game is slower than on pc, but still playable at least on the smaller maps, imo

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60 mb is very big for short it memory

well can i only install deb run file and add the date to my mcc's?

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If you have internal mmc you can install data directly there.

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for some reason the game wouldn't allow me to put it on the device or the mmc when i was booting from a SD card. so what i did is install it on the flash and do a simple back up of my applications, restart the device into the SD card and do a back up restore on the SD card after the boot menu. game works fine. don't know what to call what i did but seems like an easy back door for those who have the same issue.

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If you are booting from SD you have effectively replaced internal flash with SD card. Answering cancel to question dialog will then install game, as any application, to your sd card.

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i thought so too, but what it would do is take away from the mmc memory while downloading, then when the install process started both directions flash and mmc would say their wasn't enough memory, i watched it take almost 150 mb from my external card when i put it on the flash when i wasn't booted from the SD card, when i did boot from the SD card it went from 120 mb to 50 mb before any install choices came up. the only way i could sneak around that was just that restore.

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it automatically downloads the 60mb in internal mmc, then the 90 goes to wherever selected.

worked fine for me when i installed while booting from mmc :)

haven't had a chance to test lan play

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I dont have the internal mmc2, but have a mmc1 (external one).
How can I install this game?

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Easiest option is of course to install to device flash memory...

Second easiest is to get internal sd-card. They're cheap.

Third option is to move external mmc to internal slot and install the game. Then move card back to external slot and type in xterm (probably as root)
There are other ways but I think these are the safest.

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I can't get this to install.
It keeps coming up with 'insufficient memory' on internal mmc, even though there is .5 GB free.

BT

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Thanks for the suggestions.

Can I install the game to internal flash,
then move it to mmc1 (with cp,mv) in order to free the internal flash?

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Yes you can do that too.

After install you have to type in xterm (again probably as root)

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network play on n800 needs xvkbd which i don't have x_x

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game installed fine.. I start the game go on campaign choose the tutorial mission even listen to the narrating voice but the che aplication closes on its own.. same thing with free civ.. n810 diablo..

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Bos Wars and freeciv require swap to work.

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In fact anything needs swap. Even small. The memory allocator relies on the presence of it. Otherwise, you get unpredictable results.

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anyone knows how to repair air units in BOS Wars?
thanks!

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work fine a littler slow but ok

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I want to download the .deb files first using the notebook first and then install it on N800,but missing several lib :such as liblualib50,liblua50,libvorbis0a,how can i do it?

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If you have the gainroot package, then go into Utilities then go to X Terminal. Type sudo gainroot and press enter

Then type apt-get install (Insert missing package name here) then press enter

Press Y when prompted to do so, and it should work.

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I was just updating my isomount to support autorunnable chroot ext2's and used this BosWars as one of my first autorunnable ext2 chroots.

Basically it puts the whole game in a single file you can run off an mmc like a rom.

You will need isomount v.1.0.3 and dbus-switchboard v.1.2.7 and then download the BosWars ext2 file (gzipped), extract it and click on it from file manager to run. Emelfm2 can extract it or extract on desktop to get the .ext2 file to put on mmc. Its a 76meg archive of a 100meg file so i kind of needed to compress it.

If you plan on running any autorunnable iso's you'll also need penguinbaits cdrom driver (for iso9660 filesystem support)... but BosWars is ext2 which maemo has built in support for so not needed for this.

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Is there a strategy guide for BosWars?

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Anyone know how to create new png-based maps? I've been testing with the canyon map with a custom terrain.png, but the class-no-pass.png file doesn't do anything (what's the point of it anyway?). The "unpassable" tiles are based off of the access-unpassable.lua file, and I'm not planning on spending hours manually typing in the new tile numbers for my custom map. There's got to be some other way?

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Would this work on N900?

Could somebody maybe recompile it and add it to maemo5 extras testing/devel?

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I get the impression this is based on Stratagus so maybe it could be simply run with the stratagus binaries?

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got stratagus already out there on the n900 repos. So if it is using the stratagus engine, then we would just need the data files. Should be easy enough if true.

2d

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Last I checked boswars uses a modified engine.

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Stratagus was left behind for warcraft and starcraft ports and the developers started their own RTS and modified the engine in the process.

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Here you are: http://maemo.org/packages/view/boswars/

So far I only packaged it and removed OpenGL code to compile in SDK.
It obviously needs more work to be usable with touch screen.

Hint: First thing after running, go to options and select 640x480 + fullscreen.

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Is there any way to get the res to 800x480? Thanks for getting it up and running, I will test it out a bit today.

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