Thread: Announcement: Einstein-N8x0 Beta
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jaem
2009-08-29 , 10:11
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Hey Folks,

As requested by forum user pokey in this thread, I have ported the game Einstein to Maemo, and I would consider it beta quality as of now. I haven't actually learned how to play the game yet, so while I do, and after, I can use everyone's feedback.
You can currently install the game from the Debian Package here: http://www.sfu.ca/~jgm3/files/maemo/...eta1_armel.deb
I will see about getting it into Extras when I feel it is ready for general consumption.
The modified (GPL'd) source can be found here: http://www.sfu.ca/~jgm3/files/maemo/...8292009.tar.gz
The modified resource sources will be uploaded shortly, and can be found at the same address.

For some reason, the README isn't accessible at the moment, so I'll quote it here:
README for Einstein-n8x0
Last Update: August 29, 2009
(If you installed this package before August 29, 2009, you don't have the latest version. Future versions will have proper version bump)

**This software is beta-quality, as far as the Maemo version and my related edits go. Please contact me on the forum thread URL below for questions about this package. The original developer of Einstein cannot help you with my code, because they don't yet have a copy - and they'll probably be annoyed if you ask them.

Notes:
- Forum thread for discussion: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=317795 - Please report bugs/suggestions there
- This port should be functional, but the code needs some cleaning up and probably some more #ifdefing to make things happyful
- Hold F6 (N8x0 hardware Fullscreen button) to right-click. This is provisional, as it makes the game unplayable for lefties (sorry!). If you have a better idea of how to do this, which will work on at least the N800 and N810 (bonus points for a more universal solution), and won't adversely affect gameplay (or my grades, in getting it implemented :P), please let me know in the forum thread.
- The above note will make it into the in-game help dialog; I don't feel like doing that tonight, so tough.
New features/fixes in the Beta:
- Right-click works. Now you can actually play the game

Known Issues:
- Software does not actually check if you are already holding down the Fullscreen button when you start the game. (I don't know why anyone would, but it will break things, and that's not good; I just didn't feel like fixing it tonight, but it'll be taken care of in short order)
- I've disabled the fullscreen toggle for the Maemo build, because it's pointless, and it also crashes the program. I'm looking into this, but if in the mean time, you manually change the option in the config file, it's your own darn fault.

Please let me know what you think of this, and any issues you experience.
Cheers,
Last edited by jaem; 2009-08-29 at 10:15. Reason: bootstrapping the forum link
 

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