[EBUILD] BlackIsle RPGs (currently hibernating)

Voltago · Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:28 pm Post subject:

With disabling sound I mean disabling sound in .wine/config, not in the game, BTW. I found that jack and arts sound work quite well.
But since wine has quite a negative impact on I/O and sound performance, it might well be that the game performance as it is now is as good as it gets on your machine. Perhaps it would be a good move to try to fiddle it to work with cedega?

Gauss_Cleric · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 85

Thanks for the help... but I can't make it work. Nor with wine, nor with cedega. I've tried to run de setup with both cedega and wine but still nothing. This time some anoying InstallShield related bug. My last resort will be to install BG2 to my brother Windows PC and the copying over the whole directory. This worked with ToEE (Temple os Elemental Evil) wich suffered from the same InstallShield bug. So, fingers crossed...

If this doesn't work I'll give this ebuild another shot and probably disturb you all even further!!

Cheers,

inha · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 35

inha · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 35

how do I make this motherbitch run in proper full screen mode? now the gnome menus just stay there and block a part the screen making spellcasting and skill using somewhat annoying at times.

btw. I found out that winex 3.3.2 should be able to run the installer. and the latest version of cedega should be able to run the game then. I might have to try that to see if I can get better performance with cedega. it's decent now too though but I'd like fully working audio.

I can't figure out why on earth would transgaming put out updates which break compatibility with some games.

Voltago · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:46 pm Post subject:

rzZzn · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:30 pm Post subject:

Nice ebuild Voltago

Is there any way to make this depend on cedega instead of wine?
'cus I run an amd64 box....
I have tried to change the KEYWORDS to amd64 but it doesen't compile unshield, have'nt tried wine yet... don't think it would compile either.

//rZn

Voltago · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:48 pm Post subject:

Hm... maybe... you could try to play with the variables beginning with 'WINE_' in your ~/.bg2/config. I do not own cedega myself, and since BG2 is supposed to be supported by cedega (but cannot be installed due to some InstallShield problem), I really don't see why I should do Transgaming's job _and_ pay for it, so I don't plan to actively support cedega. But if the setup is similar to Wine's it should not be too hard to get it to work.

rzZzn · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:52 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the quick reply

I will try that.

I do agree with you on the transgaming issue...
Only bought it cus i wanted to try halflife 2...

HardenCoonor · n00b Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 54

What about gemrb?

http://gemrb.sourceforge.net

It is still under development.

@Voltago: How does it feel to walk without feet

?

Voltago · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:00 pm Post subject:

HardenCoonor · n00b Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 54

Voltago · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:35 pm Post subject:

Voltago · Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:20 pm Post subject:

Bump.
Added support for Baldur's Gate + AddOn, Icewind Dale + AddOn, and Icewind Dale II.

lynxnyl · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:12 am Post subject:

That's awe-some!

Only PS:T left.

http://www.download.com/Icewind-Dale-Heart-of-Winter-Trials-of-the-Luremaster-patch/3000-7539_4-10236599.html?tag=lst-1-20
This one is english.

Voltago · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 4:49 pm Post subject:

HardenCoonor · n00b Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 54

Yes, iwg. I have seen this already, but never tested it, since it became an open beta only when Mr. W. Weimer decided not to continue development of this program

. By then i also was a bit bored by these games, if you ever have killed about 100 or more glabrezu in demogorgons prison just for the sake of dualclassing a ~level20 fighter to a level21 thief, you will know what i mean. That acid katana of Westley Weimer is surely a great weapon.

BTW, are there ebuilds for weidu, bg1tutu and the likes (even iwg/weimorph) ? I haven't read the whole thread through, so i might have missed that.

There are also some bugfixed dialog.tlks around on the internet, they also might be included. Knights Kits for BG2 and BG1 is also quite interesting, although german only.

What about dragonlancetc?

Well, to support all those mods for ie-games available is a big piece of work.

Voltago · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 7:45 pm Post subject:

Yep, there's an ebuild for weidu and several mods, but not for bg1tutu (yet :wink:

). The fixed dialog files (from baldurdash.org, I suppose) are english only. I'll add them when I can make sure that only english users can install them (will implement this.... eventually...).

Devard · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 6:46 pm Post subject:

Hi, I am getting some errors during the iwd2 emerge process.

Voltago · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 7:12 pm Post subject:

Devard · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 7:33 pm Post subject:

Devard · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:14 pm Post subject:

The program pauses for a reasonably lengthy amount of time after the bit with the 2257 files. At that point, I altered the directory from /var/tmp/portage/iwd2-0/work/ishield_unshield_1/minimum_compressed_-_us_english to /var/tmp/portage/iwd2-0/work/ishield_unshield_1/minimum_compressed_-_english. After a pretty long wait, I'd say ten to fifteen minutes, it asked me to put in the second disc.

After it said that the merging was completed, I got a few QA notices such as.

QA Notice: ECLASS 'eutils' inherited illegally in games-ie/iwd2-0

The same message repeats for multilib, infinity, eutils (again), multilib and infinity again, and then those three again, and then finally ishield.

I emerged the 20050111 ebuild (as you recommended) and then the official patch. The official patch also gave some ECLASS errors at the end, but instead of ishield it was gnuconfig (if I remember correctly, I closed my xterm a bit too fast).

I had to symlink d: to /mnt/cdrom, but it seems to be working now. All that's left right now is the lack of sound, I'll try out a couple of methods that's been listed in the thread and post again if I get things going.

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Voltago · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:49 pm Post subject:

You can ignore the QA notices, they are harmless. I wish I could figure out how to get rid of them however, but every time someone raises the question, the answer is invariably that they are harmless and we can ignore them... :roll:

Thanks for your fingerprint!

Devard · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 12:00 am Post subject:

I tried editing the ebuild before emerging but that didn't work. I did it the second way you mentioned, renaming the folder midway through my file manager while the ebuild was executed. Probably not the best move, no sir...

Anyway, keep up the good work!
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Voltago · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 12:09 am Post subject:

totencham · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 3:49 pm Post subject:

Is it possible to create an "Planescape: Torment" ebuild, or shall I try run it with GemRB?
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