Release Diablo

[Rockthesmurf]

kind of shows how much this release is needed...

To be fair, your initial post mentioned:

Warning - not yet fully playable (crashes when you leave town, press space or return key to close the (sometimes) invisible crash dialog).


[...]


Unfortunately it's unstable and crashes in some non-obvious way.

It sounded like your post was really gauging interest as to whether anyone would play a version which was further developed. It sounds like there are a few interested parties (and a few people dusting off their Diablo 1 CDs in anticipation), but realistically, the main goal for this project would really need to be your desire to achieve something cool, releases on Pandora just don't seem to get so much attention these days.

If playing your current version can be helpful for you (generating information about crashes?) I am happy to run around a bit and report back?

 

[elwing]

that's exactly how I got it, that's why I shown interest but haven't tested it yet. so, do you need some feedback?

 

[ptitSeb]

Seriously, do you this kind of release, even unfinished, after the months of hard work needed, is best rewarded by just ... ignoring it?

Even if not finished, the best course of action is to what, put a "Like" on the Board (1 click) and that's it? Not even the 10 min to download, grab the CD and launch it. Do you think clicking Like is the ultimate reward for a Dev?

(Hint: it is not, Trying software, enjoying them, making comment is)

 

[ingoreis]

Just ordered the Diablo1 over Ebay again.


I realy searched my Cdrom and did not found it more.


That Game would be great for my Pandora TV Edition


Btw:


Have you encrypted the PND in any Way?


I was not able to open it with the PNDtools to have a little view inside it


When i rename some Windows Games to "diablo.exe" then is there a Cance to get little Things to work?


(just an Idea)


Very old Games like WingCommander3 can maybe work?


Waiting for the next Days for my new Diablo1 CDRom and when it arrive will i try to make a Video too


Diablo1 on the Pandora over one PND is genious for me.


Better than Starcraft for me


(because i dont realy like Strategy Games)


Thx for your Work and i hope you will not stop with that

 

[Jey123456]

Trying to find my diablo 1 cd back . 

But if this is ever released in a fully playable state, it will definitly join the list of games i play every day on my pandy =D

 

[Holliefant]

Finally 5 days after release somebody actually started the thing (no other but the most active dev), kind of shows how much this release is needed...

And yeah I'll need to fix the crash recovery in the next release, if there is ever one.

Me sad... I would have loved to test it, but i neither have Diablo 1 nor have a functioning pandora. 

But Notaz be very assured that all your efforts are highly appreciated by me at least.

That is all work for the pandora is... But its just me, not an important person  

 

[ekianjo]

Finally 5 days after release somebody actually started the thing (no other but the most active dev), kind of shows how much this release is needed...

I would have liked to test it but :

- I don't like Diablo in the first place (especially the first one that I really hated, the second one I could play at least a little)

- I don't have Diablo either

But I do find the work you did on this awesome - I'm a big fan of what you did on Starcraft and it's great you can reapply what you learnt there for a new release. 

 

[edgex004]

I'm just hoping your motivation can be maintained until I get my Pandora back in 2 months!

 

[notaz]

If playing your current version can be helpful for you (generating information about crashes?) I am happy to run around a bit and report back?

Well I was expecting someone interested to prepare their setup (find the needed files) in anticipation of a fully working version potentially to be released and confirm that this flawed build at least starts for them. I guess I did a poor job conveying that.


And yes ptitSeb's feedback is enough for now.

Have you encrypted the PND in any Way?


I was not able to open it with the PNDtools to have a little view inside it

I'm using xz compressed squashfs (just like for StarCraft) to save space taken up by wine. unsquashfs on Linux can decompress it fine.

When i rename some Windows Games to "diablo.exe" then is there a Cance to get little Things to work?

Nope, it's not an emulator, the .exe (and all needed dll files) are converted manually to different files, original .exe is not used after that.

(just an Idea)


Very old Games like WingCommander3 can maybe work?

That looks like a DOS game? Anyway I'd need to have at least some interest in the game myself, even while the tools have improved somewhat and Diablo needed a lot less effort to reach the state where it starts up, it's still a lot of work than needs some dedication to finish.

 

[Silent-Hunter]

If I owned Diablo I would have been all over this.

 

[elwing]

Seriously, do you this kind of release, even unfinished, after the months of hard work needed, is best rewarded by just ... ignoring it?

Even if not finished, the best course of action is to what, put a "Like" on the Board (1 click) and that's it? Not even the 10 min to download, grab the CD and launch it. Do you think clicking Like is the ultimate reward for a Dev?

(Hint: it is not, Trying software, enjoying them, making comment is)

Sorry If I wasn't clear, there's some misunderstandment. I'm glad someone develop, I'd like to show my gratitude and I feel bad because it do not show enough, the fact is that I leave home at 4.40am, I only get back at 6.15pm, then I need to take care of three children, then if I got some time left I'm trying to finish building my home. I don't watch TV anymore and I've not played any game since three weeks (beside your HL betatests). I'd gladely donate time to test release or help in any other way as it's the least we can all do toward you developpers. but I don't have time to play just for my pleasure unfortunately, and even if I did have time my backlog is full enough for at least a dozen years of gaming (without exagerations). If you need something ask it and I'll help as much a I can but if you don't need anything I'm afraid I won't be able to play with 49 out of 50 release and I don't really know how to show my gratitude except by posting some thanks here, if you got any other idea (donations?) I'd love to hear them.

br

edit: now that Notaz clarified his needs I'll install diablo asap.

ps thanks again...

 

[sebt3]

Well I was expecting someone interested to prepare their setup (find the needed files) in anticipation of a fully working version potentially to be released and confirm that this flawed build at least starts for them.

Earlier I said I was pimped, because I am. I didnt had much time lately (no hacking either) but I took time to find my CD I'll have a setup ready for your next release.

 

[Eight Bit]

Nice, I got myself Diablo just to check this out

Do you mind to share a link?

http://www.amazon.com/Diablo-PC/dp/B00001IVBL

 

[elwing]

ok, installed and running.
It looks great... but as expected not for long. that's the drawback of these static recompilation, it can look almost perfect while there's still a lot to fix.
here is a first dump I got while trying to open the "menu" in game:

Spoiler

=======================================================================================
PND             : /media/APPS/pandora/menu/diablo_r0.pnd
PND_FSTYPE      : Squashfs
APPDATADIR      : /media/APPS/pandora/appdata/diablo
APPDD_FSTYPE    : vfat
PND_CPUSPEED    : <unset>
EXENAME         : run.sh
ARGUMENTS       : <unset>
=======================================================================================
[ START ]--- Mount the PND ----------
Mounting : mount -t squashfs -o ro "/dev/loop0" "/mnt/utmp/diablo"
Mounting the Union FS : mount -t aufs -o exec,noplink,dirs="/media/APPS/pandora/appdata/diablo=rw+nolwh":"/mnt/pnd/diablo=rr" none "/mnt/utmp/diablo"
[sUCCESS]--- Mount the PND ----------
[ START ]--- Starting the application ( run.sh  ) ----------
wine: configuration in '/mnt/utmp/diablo/winedata' has been updated.
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x411ef600,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:fbdev:X11DRV_fbdev_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from 16 to 8
fixme:ddraw:ddraw7_WaitForVerticalBlank iface 0x40942d90, flags 0x1, event (nil) stub!
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1028snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
fixme:d3d:wined3d_get_adapter_raster_status wined3d 0x40946500, adapter_idx 0, raster_status 0x411efb98 semi-stub!
fixme:dsoundSOUND_RecalcFormat audio resampling required: 11025->22050
fixme:dsoundSOUND_RecalcFormat audio resampling required: 11025->22050
wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x4288c017 at address 0x40d1f63c (thread 0009), starting debugger...
couldn't load main module (2)
Unhandled exception: page fault on write access to 0x4288c017 in 32-bit code (0x40d1f63c).
Register dump:
ARM User Mode
 Pc:40d1f63c Sp:411efad0 Lr:40d1f79c Cpsr:20000010(--C-)
 r0:4233103c r1:cfefc9cc r2:01979644 r3:4288c017
 r4:00000000 r5:00cfefc9 r6:00000000 r7:4233103c
 r8:00000000 r9:0000032e r10:0000002e Fp:fffffff8 Ip:00000001
Stack dump:
0x411efad0:  00000002 000000cf 0000027f 4420565b
0x411efae0:  fffd6f35 4288c017 42810010 442048e2
0x411efaf0:  00000060 00000008 00000051 000000ff
0x411efb00:  40ebbdec 40e8910c 40e5e26c 40e5e1ec
0x411efb10:  0000000c 000001c7 40e5d2ac 40d2f494
0x411efb20:  0000002e 00000052 0000004c 0000000c
Backtrace:
=>0 0x40d1f63c (0xfffffff8)
  1 0x40d1f79c (0xfffffff8)
0x40d1f63c:
    strb    r6, [r3, #0]
Modules:
Module    Address            Debug info    Name (27 modules)
PE    40450000-40454000    Deferred        ntdll
PE    40a50000-40bec000    Deferred        kernel32
PE    41200000-41204000    Deferred        advapi32
PE    41270000-412ab000    Deferred        user32
PE    413a0000-413a7000    Deferred        gdi32
PE    41490000-41494000    Deferred        version
PE    414c0000-4161e000    Deferred        shell32
PE    416d0000-416d8000    Deferred        shlwapi
PE    41750000-41754000    Deferred        msvcrt
PE    417d0000-41846000    Deferred        winmm
PE    418a0000-418a8000    Deferred        ole32
PE    41990000-41994000    Deferred        rpcrt4
PE    41a10000-41a19000    Deferred        msacm32
PE    41a40000-41ad8000    Deferred        comdlg32
PE    41b20000-41b4f000    Deferred        comctl32
PE    41c10000-41c1a000    Deferred        winspool
PE    41e60000-41e64000    Deferred        winex11
PE    42010000-42014000    Deferred        uxtheme
PE    42240000-42244000    Deferred        imm32
PE    42350000-42354000    Deferred        mmdevapi
PE    42370000-42374000    Deferred        ddraw
PE    423e0000-423e4000    Deferred        wined3d
PE    42520000-42524000    Deferred        opengl32
PE    42690000-42694000    Deferred        dsound
PE    426d0000-426d3000    Deferred        winealsa
PE    428a0000-428a8000    Deferred        oleaut32
PE    430b0000-430b3000    Deferred        tapi32
Threads:
process  tid      prio (all id:s are in hex)
00000008 (D) Z:\mnt\utmp\diablo\libd1_sa_arm.exe
    0000002a    2
    00000027    1
    00000026   15
    00000025    0
    00000009    0 <==
0000000c services.exe
    00000021    0
    00000020    0
    0000000e    0
    0000000d    0
00000012 explorer.exe
    00000013    0
0000001e winedevice.exe
    00000024    0
    00000023    0
    00000022    0
    0000001f    0
[sUCCESS]--- Starting the application ( run.sh  ) ----------
[ START ]--- Restoring the frame buffer status ----------
[sUCCESS]--- Restoring the frame buffer status ----------
[ START ]--- Restoring nub mode ----------
[sUCCESS]--- Restoring nub mode ----------
[ START ]--- uMount the PND ----------
[ START ]--- Waiting the Union to be available ----------
[sUCCESS]--- Waiting the Union to be available ----------
auplinklink.c:223: AUFS_CTL_PLINK_MAINT: Inappropriate ioctl for device
rmdir: failed to remove `/mnt/utmp/diablo': Device or resource busy
[ START ]--- Waiting the PND mount dir to be free ----------
[sUCCESS]--- Waiting the PND mount dir to be free ----------
cleanup done
[sUCCESS]--- uMount the PND ----------
=======================================================================================
Return code is : 1
 

a second while walking near the hermit:

Spoiler

=======================================================================================

PND : /media/APPS/pandora/menu/diablo_r0.pnd
PND_FSTYPE : Squashfs
APPDATADIR : /media/APPS/pandora/appdata/diablo
APPDD_FSTYPE : vfat
PND_CPUSPEED : <unset>
EXENAME : run.sh
ARGUMENTS : <unset>
=======================================================================================
[ START ]--- Mount the PND ----------
Mounting : mount -t squashfs -o ro "/dev/loop0" "/mnt/utmp/diablo"
Mounting the Union FS : mount -t aufs -o exec,noplink,dirs="/media/APPS/pandora/appdata/diablo=rw+nolwh":"/mnt/pnd/diablo=rr" none "/mnt/utmp/diablo"
[sUCCESS]--- Mount the PND ----------
[ START ]--- Starting the application ( run.sh ) ----------
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x411ff600,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:fbdev:X11DRV_fbdev_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from 16 to 8
fixme:ddraw:ddraw7_WaitForVerticalBlank iface 0x40969e28, flags 0x1, event (nil) stub!
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1028snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
fixme:d3d:wined3d_get_adapter_raster_status wined3d 0x4096d598, adapter_idx 0, raster_status 0x411ffb98 semi-stub!
fixme:dsoundSOUND_RecalcFormat audio resampling required: 11025->22050
fixme:dsoundSOUND_RecalcFormat audio resampling required: 11025->22050
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000010 at address 0x40d5c7ac (thread 0009), starting debugger...
couldn't load main module (2)
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000010 in 32-bit code (0x40d5c7ac).
Register dump:
ARM User Mode
Pc:40d5c7ac Sp:411ffa68 Lr:40d5c78c Cpsr:20000010(--C-)
r0:00000000 r1:00002210 r2:00000000 r3:410bcbf8
r4:40e9610c r5:00000010 r6:00000000 r7:0000004a
r8:00000030 r9:00000049 r10:410bcb88 Fp:00000046 Ip:00000001
Stack dump:
0x411ffa68: 00000010 00000000 410bb0b8 00000000
0x411ffa78: 410baaa0 0000004a 00000046 00000049
0x411ffa88: 00000017 40d5ca08 40512cf0 00000039
0x411ffa98: 00000002 0000004a 00000000 40e6ff10
0x411ffaa8: 40d5e458 410baaa4 410baaa8 40d5cb98
0x411ffab8: 00000058 ffffffff 40512cf0 40e6ff18
Backtrace:
=>0 0x40d5c7ac (0x00000046)
1 0x40d5c78c (0x00000046)
0x40d5c7ac:
ldr r4, [r5], #4
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (27 modules)
PE 40460000-40464000 Deferred ntdll
PE 40a70000-40c0c000 Deferred kernel32
PE 41210000-41214000 Deferred advapi32
PE 41280000-412bb000 Deferred user32
PE 413b0000-413b7000 Deferred gdi32
PE 414a0000-414a4000 Deferred version
PE 414d0000-4162e000 Deferred shell32
PE 416e0000-416e8000 Deferred shlwapi
PE 41760000-41764000 Deferred msvcrt
PE 417e0000-41856000 Deferred winmm
PE 418b0000-418b8000 Deferred ole32
PE 419a0000-419a4000 Deferred rpcrt4
PE 41a20000-41a29000 Deferred msacm32
PE 41a50000-41ae8000 Deferred comdlg32
PE 41b30000-41b5f000 Deferred comctl32
PE 41c20000-41c2a000 Deferred winspool
PE 41e70000-41e74000 Deferred winex11
PE 42020000-42024000 Deferred uxtheme
PE 42240000-42244000 Deferred imm32
PE 42370000-42374000 Deferred ddraw
PE 423e0000-423e4000 Deferred wined3d
PE 42520000-42524000 Deferred opengl32
PE 42770000-42774000 Deferred dsound
PE 42860000-42864000 Deferred mmdevapi
PE 428a0000-428a8000 Deferred oleaut32
PE 42990000-42993000 Deferred winealsa
PE 430a0000-430a3000 Deferred tapi32
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
00000008 (D) Z:\mnt\utmp\diablo\libd1_sa_arm.exe
00000026 2
00000024 1
00000023 15
00000022 0
00000009 0 <==
0000000e services.exe
0000001d 0
0000001c 0
00000014 0
00000010 0
0000000f 0
00000012 winedevice.exe
0000001b 0
00000018 0
00000017 0
00000013 0
00000019 plugplay.exe
0000001f 0
0000001e 0
0000001a 0
00000020 explorer.exe
00000021 0
[sUCCESS]--- Starting the application ( run.sh ) ----------
[ START ]--- Restoring the frame buffer status ----------
[sUCCESS]--- Restoring the frame buffer status ----------
[ START ]--- Restoring nub mode ----------
[sUCCESS]--- Restoring nub mode ----------
[ START ]--- uMount the PND ----------
[ START ]--- Waiting the Union to be available ----------
[sUCCESS]--- Waiting the Union to be available ----------
auplinklink.c:223: AUFS_CTL_PLINK_MAINT: Inappropriate ioctl for device
rmdir: failed to remove `/mnt/utmp/diablo': Device or resource busy
[ START ]--- Waiting the PND mount dir to be free ----------
[sUCCESS]--- Waiting the PND mount dir to be free ----------
cleanup done
[sUCCESS]--- uMount the PND ----------
=======================================================================================
Return code is : 1

and finally an easy to reproduce game menu bug:

just select to create a new char, do not enter a name, it will display a new windows with an error message but most of the old window will still be shown resulting in the following mess:



edit:

SZ 1.71

diablo 1.09

SGX driver 4.10

 

[Farox]

Ok now i must admit that i'm feeling a little moron...i could not make it run on my CC Pandora.

I copied the files

Patch_rt.mpq

and

diabdat.mpq (tested this in lowercase and uppercase)

in /appdata/diablo folder

but nothing (Pandora feels running something in background..i think wineserver)

i also tried enabling a swapfile (of 256MB) but nothing

I don't know what to do...is it compatible with CC Pandora ?

 

[elwing]

dunno if it's related but on first start i had a popup winlib that stayed for pretty long before diablo launched...

 

[ptitSeb]

dunno if it's related but on first start i had a popup winlib that stayed for pretty long before diablo launched...

This is normal for a Wine game/software. On first run, wine create Registry and other Windows things...

 

[notaz]

Thanks everyone for testing.

I don't know what to do...is it compatible with CC Pandora ?

I haven't tested it on CC but I can't think of any reason for it to not start there.

Maybe you're on old firmware? /tmp/pndrun_diablo.out should have some hints.

 

[Farox]

Here is the pnd.out

to obtain a complete pnd.out file i have to open a terminal and kill the wine processes, otherwise pandora was running in background wineserver etc and the pnd.out file was not complete.

Forgot to add...i'm on latest firm 1.71

=======================================================================================
PND             : /media/TEMPUS/pandora/apps/diablo_r0.pnd
PND_FSTYPE      : Squashfs
APPDATADIR      : /media/TEMPUS/pandora/appdata/diablo
APPDD_FSTYPE    : vfat
PND_CPUSPEED    : <unset>
EXENAME         : run.sh
ARGUMENTS       : <unset>
=======================================================================================
[ START ]--- Mount the PND ----------
Mounting : mount -t squashfs -o ro "/dev/loop0" "/mnt/utmp/diablo"
Mounting the Union FS : mount -t aufs -o exec,noplink,dirs="/media/TEMPUS/pandora/appdata/diablo=rw+nolwh":"/mnt/pnd/diablo=rr" none "/mnt/utmp/diablo"
[sUCCESS]--- Mount the PND ----------
[ START ]--- Starting the application ( run.sh  ) ----------
err:module:attach_process_dlls "gdi32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"Z:\\mnt\\utmp\\diablo\\libd1_sa_arm.exe" failed, status c0000005
[sUCCESS]--- Starting the application ( run.sh  ) ----------
[ START ]--- Restoring the frame buffer status ----------
[sUCCESS]--- Restoring the frame buffer status ----------
[ START ]--- Restoring nub mode ----------
[sUCCESS]--- Restoring nub mode ----------
[ START ]--- uMount the PND ----------
[ START ]--- Waiting the Union to be available ----------
[sUCCESS]--- Waiting the Union to be available ----------
rmdir: failed to remove `/mnt/utmp/diablo': Device or resource busy
[ START ]--- Waiting the PND mount dir to be free ----------
[sUCCESS]--- Waiting the PND mount dir to be free ----------
cleanup done
[sUCCESS]--- uMount the PND ----------
=======================================================================================
Return code is : 3

 

[elwing]

Notaz, are you in need of more data or do you have enough work units for now?