Okay. So here's the latest version of Scid that's now available for testing.

Save all of these files and put them into a folder on your memory card named Scid.
/media/mmc1/Scid

tcl8.5_8.5.8-1_armel.deb
tk8.5_8.5.8-1_armel.deb
libsnack2-alsa_2.2.10-dfsg1-9_armel.deb
libtk-img_1.3-release-8_armel.deb
scid_4.0-maemo2_armel.deb

Enable extras in the application manager and after that is done, open Xterm and copy and paste this into it.

root
apt-get install libvorbisenc2
cd /media/mmc1/Scid
dpkg -i tcl8.5_8.5.8-1_armel.deb
dpkg -i tk8.5_8.5.8-1_armel.deb
dpkg -i libsnack2-alsa_2.2.10-dfsg1-9_armel.deb
dpkg -i libtk-img_1.3-release-8_armel.deb
dpkg -i scid_4.0-maemo2_armel.deb

Scid is a little buggy at the moment especially in regards to the analysis engine. It was pretty stable on his first release but something happened to it since then and I can't find a pattern to why it's crashing all the time.

Anyway, it's best if you were to install Bash2 from the app manager and launch it directly from Xterm for the time being.

So just open up Xterm and type
scid

If anything bad should happen, press the "home" button hardware key and close out Xterm.

Here's my option setting to help with the screen layout since it's not all that easy to configure correctly.
options.zip

It goes into the folder /home/user/.scid/config

The default layout is for landscape mode.

Windows --> Restore layout 2 is for portrait mode. With this setting, change the Chessboard size to 8.

I'm currently looking into having much better sounds than what this comes packaged with.

After that, I'll see if there are better fonts as well.

In the meantime, if you see any patterns where certain things are broken with this application, please feel free to post though I'm not all too sure if Ukki will try and fix them.

Here are two screen shots of the current version and the default layout that comes with the option.dat file I posted.




Many cheers to Ukki for compiling this for us!