Notices

Just want to mention:
FreeRA porting in progress....
Official Project Page http://freera.sourceforge.net

Screen Shots freera@n800 OS2008:







There is an option for screen resolution:
./freera -w 800 -h 480 -fullscreen -nosound





ToDo:
o Vqa player should be fixed

Download:

freera-bin 0.1-2
freera-data-demo 0.1 <---- use this if you have ext[2/3] formated mmc card
freera-data.tgz <----- if your mmc card is vfat formatted extract this bundle in your /usr/share/games/freera

Good luck

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How to install RA on the tablet: step by step made by jolouis


IN ORDER FOR ANY OF THIS TO WORK YOU MUST BE ROOT.
IF you don't know how to become root, google "n800 gainroot", and find out.


1) Open the tablet browser and download freera-bin_0.1-2 (latest build as of this writing).

2) When prompted, select open with application manager

3) Application manager pops up and says Install? Click OK

4) Agree to NON-Nokia software thing and wait while it installs (twidle thumbs idly at this point, whistling optional)

5) When asked for location, choose wherever (I left it on defaults as Extras)

6) When asked where to install, choose "Root"

7) It will come up and say that it's installed successfully. If you get an error or it says failed, check your tablet for enough free space on root (needs a few MBs)

8) Close application manager.

DEMO FILES - Download these first, then replace them as discussed later...

8) Download the demo files TAR like this:
click on the freera-data.tgz file in your browser, and choose save, change folder to Internal Memory Card, and hit OK
to start downloading. If you're using Removable Memory card, just remember to change the information as noted later on.

9) Wait for download to complete (again thumb twidling applicable depending on your connection).
MAKE SURE THE DOWNLOAD COMPLETES PROPERLY. If you wait too long or there's a problem and you only get half the file, it WON'T WORK.


10) Once download has completed, go to Utilities Menu, and open X-Term

11) Become root
Gainroot:
sudo gainroot

or with SSH
ssh root@127.1


12) type:
cd /usr/share/games/freera

13) Make a directory to store your game data on the MMC. If you're using Internal Memory (like me):
mkdir /media/mmc2/raData

OR if you're using removable then:
mkdir /media/mmc1/raData

14) Create a link from the games root folder to the data folder that you've just made on your MMC:
For Internaml memory card:

ln -s /media/mmc2/raData /usr/share/games/freera/data

Or Removable:


ln -s /media/mmc1/raData /usr/share/games/freera/data

15) Change to your data directory:
cd /usr/share/games/freera/data

16) Extract your demo data tar file:
Internal Memory:
tar -xzvf /media/mmc2/data.tar.gz

Or Removable Memory:
tar -xzvf /media/mmc1/data.tar.gz

17) Wait while all of the files are extracted (takes time again).

18) Unfortunately we now have a data directory within a data directory, so to solve this we'll move all the files out of the 2nd data directory to the first:
mv data/* ./

rmdir data

19) At this point you'll want to confirm that RA is up and running. Try opening it from your Extras menu (or where ever you choose to have it show up during
the first part of this walkthough). The game should load and run with Demo game data.




FULL GAME FILES

20) You can grab a copy of the full game files from the Abadonware site:
http://www.abandonware-paradise.org/...Alert-829.html

Download them on your computer to make life easy (NOT the tablet directly).

21) Once the download is complete, unzip them somewhere; I chose the directory "raOrig" on my PC's hard drive.

22) Plug the tablet into the PC using the USB cable.

23) Open the drive that represents the memory card where you made your raData directory.

24) Go into the raData directory.

25) Go into the mix directory within raData

26) Copy over the following files from the RAOrig (original downloaded files directory) to the mix directory, overwriting as required:
Allies.mix
Conquer.mix
General.mix
Main.mix
Redalert.mix
Russian.mix
Sounds.mix
Snow.mix
Temperat.mix

And maybe Setup.mix and Aud.mix from the Setup directory... and edlo.mix, edhi.mix? Not sure if those last ones are required, but try without, and if you find some reason to need them then copy them over.


28) Disconnect the USB from the tablet and run RA again; should be full proper game now.

29) Play RA and have fun. Keep in mind that not everything is perfect by any means (lol Soviet mission #1... that's a bit odd), but it's still awesome.

30) Don't forget to delete the data.tar.gz file from your MMC card once you've got everything running.

Wow, can't wait to see this

That is awsome !!!!
I loved this game and I am so exciting to see it on my tablet
can't wait !!!

any ideas of when we will be allowed to download it?

thx

18981881 2007-10-24 07:52 freera_armel_001.tgz

You could download it for 5 months.
http://pupnik.de/freera.html

I expect linman's port will be better though .

Original Data Files (http://www.abandonware-paradise.org/...Alert-829.html)
My port will be available when I fix the sound's issues. ArnimS's port is playable but it has the same problem with the sound. I checked it with original data files.

That is so cool !!!

But...
I have a problem.
I download it on mmc2 and when I want to run it I have:
-sh : ./freera: Permission denied

so, here is permission :
ls -l => -rw-r--r-- 1 user root ..... freera

and if I make chmod +x freera, that doesn't make any error but that doesn't change the permission.
Why?

Does your file system support +x option (I am not sure but if it is FAT it might be a problem) I am using ext3 for my internal card and there I do not have such problem.

hum yes it use FAT system. I am going to save files and format it with ext3

thx

Or you can move the executable on the card and create symlinks for the directories or something.

Yes this would be the fastest workaround... but in general I think ext2/3 will solve all his problems in the feature. n8x0 is a linux device and should be used with linux enabled FSs.