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Dr.Willy
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 Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 3:41 pm Post subject: Return to the Roots: A Settlers 2 rewrite |
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I just stumbled on this project and thought some of you might find it interesting.
| Quote: | We aim to extend new features such as a multiplayer mode via internet as well as the support for modern hardware and several operating systems like Windows XP/Vista/Seven, Linux and MacOS. Likewise we want to invent some smaller upgrades. Unfortunately it is necessary to rewrite the whole game, but we will stick to the original graphics and sounds, because they are still common and nice to be heard or seen.
So you will still need a original "The Settlers 2 Gold Edition" version to play Settlers 2.5 RttR. |
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Chewi
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| Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Fantastic!! I love Settlers 2. It does run well under DOSEMU but this is obviously even better. Maybe I'll write an ebuild but I'm not sure how complete this is. I don't speak German. |
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Yamakuzure
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| Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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They have a testing version and nightly builds. To play the game you need "Settlers 2 Gold Edition".
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Chewi
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| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 12:15 am Post subject: |
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| I have started on the ebuild (and a data ebuild) for this. I have bought a copy from gog.com so I'd be grateful if someone could post the file listing from the original CD so that I can make that work too. |
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Chewi
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| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| The ebuilds are now up and working at bug #363719 but for the time being, you'll need to change the EAPI on the data ebuild from 4 to 3. |
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PraetorZero
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Chewi wrote: | | The ebuilds are now up and working at bug #363719 but for the time being, you'll need to change the EAPI on the data ebuild from 4 to 3. |
What did you change in the games.eclass to build this?
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Chewi
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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You can either modify games.eclass to add EAPI4 or modify the ebuild to use EAPI3. You don't need to do both. I recommended modifying the ebuild here because it's safer. The only EAPI4 feature used by the ebuild is REQUIRED_USE. This ensures that cdinstall can only be disabled on x86 and amd64. Without this, emerging the package without cdinstall on other archs will result in an error about Wine not being found. Wine can't be added as a straight !cdinstall? dependency because then the package cannot be keyworded for other archs at all. If you do want to modify games.eclass, this is what you need to do.
| Code: | --- games.eclass 2011-04-16 14:08:43.566696909 +0100
+++ games.eclass.new 2011-04-14 22:35:07.902600729 +0100
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
case ${EAPI:-0} in
0|1) EXPORT_FUNCTIONS pkg_setup src_compile pkg_preinst pkg_postinst ;;
- 2|3) EXPORT_FUNCTIONS pkg_setup src_configure src_compile pkg_preinst pkg_postinst ;;
+ 2|3|4) EXPORT_FUNCTIONS pkg_setup src_configure src_compile pkg_preinst pkg_postinst ;;
*) die "no support for EAPI=${EAPI} yet" ;;
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Dr.Willy
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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Setting EAPI=3 on the settlers2-data.ebuild doesnt work
| Code: | | REQUIRED_USE set, but EAPI='3' doesn't allow it |
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Chewi
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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Oh sorry, I thought it would just ignore REQUIRED_USE. Portage is too smart for its own good.  Remove the REQUIRED_USE line as well then. |
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Dr.Willy
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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By the way, OpenTTD is in a similar situation (os rewrite with original data) and iirc they just tell you to extract the datafiles into some directory.
Saves a lot of hacks and voodoo imo. |
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Chewi
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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| OpenTTD has since replaced all the commerical data but yeah. That's slightly different though. The ebuild would be simpler if we were only supporting the CD. It's the gog.com version that makes it a little more complicated but it's worth it because without this ebuild, users would still have to mess about with Wine by hand. At least it's automated this way. This EAPI stuff is only temporary anyway, hopefully games.eclass will officially support EAPI4 soon. |
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Chewi
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 10:33 am Post subject: |
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| I've created a new data ebuild that gets innounp from a separate package and thus no longer requires EAPI 4. |
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