Great work ZDevil! Your latest batch of packages have inspired me to finally release a game I patched and packaged up a number of months ago but never got around to posting:
Anyone remember that old game from 1992,
Flashback?
It used to be my favourite game back in the day and I was thinking one day that it would be cool to get it to run under dosbox. Thankfully some nice chap has rewritten a portable SDL version of the engine that powers the game. So no need for emulators, the game runs at full speed on the Zaurus!
REminiscence is a Free implementation of Delphine Software's Flashback engine and is capable of running any game based on the Flashback engine.
This version has been patched to compile for pdaXrom and run fullscreen.
To play Flashback you'll need to get the original Flashback game data files as these are not Free Software.
IMPORTANT: This package DOES NOT contain the data files required to run the game. See /usr/share/doc/reminiscence/README.pdaXrom for more information.
The game is now labelled as "abandonware" and is available for download from a variety of web sites. Please note that it is NOT Free Software so you might be breaking the law if you acquire it in this manner.
See the attached screenshots which were taken on my Zaurus.
The package is also available from my
unstable feed.
REminiscence also supports playing music in the game by using the MOD music files from the original Amiga version of the game. The MOD files can be downloaded from Unexotica (see link below). Simply place the MOD files (e.g. mod.flashback-ascenseur) in the same directory as the data files (i.e. /usr/lib/reminiscence/flashback).
http://www.exotica.org.uk/tunes/unexotica/.../Flashback.htmlThe MOD files are provided in an LHA archive. Please let me know if you have trouble extracting these files and I will make them available in a more modern archive format.
Please note that there are some minor glitches in the cutscenes (objects compressing horizontally to a single pixel). This has been apparently fixed in the unreleased version 0.1.9 of REminiscence. I will be contacting the author to see if this patch can be released.
Cheers!
Matt