WarCraft on the Zaurus (640x480)? "FreeCraft" or & Options

[TonyOlsen]

Did I get your attention? There are opensource movements to get a WarCraft II clone. (I wasn't sure which forum to put this in)

This thread is for discussing that. It is a break-off from the http://www.zaurususergroup.com/index.php?n...er=asc&start=15 thread.

Here's the last comment I made in that thread.

Anyone want to try recompiling FreeCraft (now known as Stratagus) for the Zaurus?

http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/wargus/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/stratagus/
http://www.happypenguin.org/show?FreeCraft
http://www.bebits.com/app/2994
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/freecraft <-- Already compiled for ARM?
http://stratagus.sourceforge.net/screenshots.shtml
etc..

Also:

http://sourceforge.net/search/ (search for "stratagus")

This is the open-source version of "War Craft II". Anyone else drooling over the idea of having War Craft II (rated the best computer games for a number of years) on their Zaurus?

[TonyOlsen]

I logged in as su and then successfully created a 128 MB swapfile (Thanks, Ethereal! ).

...but WarCraft2 still freezes at the same point.

Here's exactly what I do. For those of you who have WarCraft2 working, try this as well (same keystrokes) and let me know if it works or not.

I'm using the new stratagus.ipk (Thanks, lucho! ). I open Terminal, go to that directory ( /home/QtPalmtop/bin ) and then I open run it using the data.wc2 directory on my CF.

CODE

./stratagus -d /mnt/cf/War2/data.wc2

I see the stratagus title screen. I wait and then the menu comes up. I select campains, then human campagins. I close the helpful tips screen.

Then I click on the peon, select the "Return with Goods" button (it has a "G" on it... but don't use the keyboard for this). Everything is good so far. Then I select the gold mine. ...it freezes. The actual image is below.

Does anyone else have trouble when doing this?

I'm now going to try uncompressing the data.wc2 zip file on my Zaurus, although I would be suprised if this changed anything. I haven't heard of binary files getting corrupted when compressed/uncompressed from one OS to another. (I know that Mac OS does a bunch of "frk" stuff) I know that Ascii files can get corrupt when translated from one OS to another, but binary is binary and I thought that OS's know not to try to "translate" binary files. Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

Thanks!