Running Adonthell

[Vard]

I ran: "emerge adonthell"

Now I'm not sure how to get it running.

I'm new to linux, and don't even know where the game can be found.

Please advise.

[OddFox]

You (Your user acct) needs to be in the 'games' group, and I'm sure the game's executable is simply adonthell.

To add yourself to the games group, as root, find a line similar to this one in your /etc/group file:

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games::35:user

If there is no games:: line, simply add it. Make sure to substitute "user" with your usernames you want to allow to play games.

[charlieg]

To add yourself to the games group, as root, find a line similar to this one in your /etc/group file:

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games::35:user

If there is no games:: line, simply add it. Make sure to substitute "user" with your usernames you want to allow to play games.

Or, more simply, use the 'usermod' command line app:

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# man usermond

[OddFox]

Bah, tools are for teh weak!

But seriously, thanks for letting me know about that, charlieg.

[Vard]

I used usermod by inputting 'usermod -G games -L user'

I checked the group file and games::35::user is there, but now I'm still not sure how to run the game.

I tried: 'adonthell' and 'exec /usr/games/bin/adonthell'

[Vard]

Okay, so I think I got the commnad to run the game.
Thanks alot for letting me know how to get the group working.

I get this:

Usage: ./adonthell [OPTIONS] GAME

Where [OPTIONS] can be:
-h print this help message
-d print the data directory and exit
-v print version and exit
-l list installed games and exit
-g dir play the game contained in dir (for development only)
-c byte-compile all Python scripts in this directory (for
development only)

How do I play it now? What is the command?

[dreas]

Found this...

Now you are ready to play. Type

> adonthell wastesedge

to dive into the game.

...on their page.

[GuyonAsm]

Im writing an rpg at the moment ontop of this engine so get ready for another selection to play soon enough =).

[da-flow]

Hi i know this is an old post but nevermind i got an info that will help:
to get the game running first:
1. emerge adonthell
and then emerge the game data for adonthell called "wastesedge" this is necesarry to get a. working

2. emerge wastesedge

3. This was it, check youre in the right group and beginn !

[babos]

mmm, yes, but for me this is a
segmentation error
So sad...

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Gentux / $ adonthell wastesedge
Erreur de segmentation

[Hadriel]

i get segmentation faults, too...

[iopi]

I'm getting a seg fault too.

I've been googling around and came across this patch

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Hello,

Finally I got it.
This is caused by #374062.

This patch is a workaround for that bug. I'm not sure that using bg as
last argument is the best choice, however it works.

--- adonthell-0.3.4.cvs.20050813/src/win_ttf.cc 2004-12-13 09:56:58.000000000 +0100
+++ adonthell-0.3.4.cvs.20050813.jd/src/win_ttf.cc 2006-08-09 16:41:00.000000000 +0200
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
if (s == NULL) return *(glyphs[' ']);

image tmp (s, bg);
- image shadow (TTF_RenderUNICODE_Solid (ttf, unichar, bg), white);
+ image shadow (TTF_RenderUNICODE_Shaded (ttf, unichar, bg, bg), white);
image *glph = new image (tmp.length(), height_, false);
glph->fillrect (0, 0, tmp.length()+1, height_+1, screen::trans_col(), NULL);
shadow.draw (1, 1+height_-shadow.height(), 0, 0, shadow.length(), shadow.height(), NULL, glph);

Note, I am a noob, so this probably isn't the best way =P.

I copied the adonthell source from /usr/portage/distfiles/ to my desktop
extracted it and used nano to edit win_ttf.cc
changed the line

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image shadow (TTF_RenderUNICODE_Solid (ttf, unichar, bg), white);

to

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image shadow (TTF_RenderUNICODE_Shaded (ttf, unichar, bg, bg), white);

saved

retarred
format of command: tar -cvf mystuff.tar mystuff/
used gzip
format of command: gzip [filename]
deleted the original source of adonthell in /usr/portage/distfiles
copied the gunzipped file over (note must have the same file name as the original)
emerge --digest adonthell


then run adonthell wastesedge

the game will run now without a seg fault, however... the text now has black boxes behind each letter ;_;