Release Dopewars

[Maquis196]

Download from repo


Hi, another compilation from me. This is the classic Linux port of drug wars.


Enjoy.


Release 1.5.12


Release 1 - Initial release


Release 2 - Fixed location for highscores file and added in autofill for player name

 

[FaeMinx]

Neat! Will download probably next week...

 

[Maquis196]

Neat! Will download probably next week...

It's 2mb haha

 

[kirkanoss]

nice thanks alot for this, now if we can get a port the growing game (forget the name) and yoda's stories and Incubation: Time Is Running Out love this game.


and thanks again for your time spent on this and the ur-quan masters

 

[budweiser]

Nice

 

[Link]

I was just telling my girlfriend about this game.


Thanks for bringing it to the Pandora. She was amazed it ran on the TI calculators back in the day.

 

[diligentcircle]

Looks like you made a pretty big mistake compiling this. It looks for a fixed folder under /media/smcblk0p1, which of course doesn't exist if (like me) you have your cards labelled.

 

[Maquis196]

Looks like you made a pretty big mistake compiling this. It looks for a fixed folder under /media/smcblk0p1, which of course doesn't exist if (like me) you have your cards labelled.

Interesting, cheers for heads up, will take a look now (I thought the game looked for all its stuff relative to its position)

 

[Maquis196]

The game was looking for the highscores file in a default location (which was based on the compile prefix). I've now changed the pnd so that highscores.sco file is loaded from the pnd (it really, REALLY did not like the highscores file in appdata, if this becomes an issue in the future I'll spend more time on it).


Also, the game now uses`whoami` to input player name for you to save those precious seconds .


Upload commencing

 

[diligentcircle]

(it really, REALLY did not like the highscores file in appdata, if this becomes an issue in the future I'll spend more time on it).

I'm not really understanding what you mean here. From the point of view of the program, the appdata directory is just the directory the program is in (or the working directory).

 

[Maquis196]

(it really, REALLY did not like the highscores file in appdata, if this becomes an issue in the future I'll spend more time on it).

I'm not really understanding what you mean here. From the point of view of the program, the appdata directory is just the directory the program is in (or the working directory).

I don't understand whats happening either, but the only way I could get the game to accept the sco file was by having it on the pnd. I don't know if the program (being about 12yrs old) uses some old fashioned file lock on it thats incompatible with the overlay. After about an hour of trying to fight it, I gave up as this was the only workable solution. Shame I couldnt just disable the highscores file, not sure what will happen if and when the program will try to write to it later on.

 

[budweiser]

Having lots of fun with this classic title Thanks Bud

 

[ekianjo]

Am i doing something wrong? When launching the game it tells me it cannot access the highscore file - what should I do ?

 

[kirkanoss]

it has been fixed download the new pnd and sell some drugs

 

[Maquis196]

Ah was going to say, that was an issue with the first release. Delete the pnd and make sure that /mnt/utmp/dopewars isn't mounted (I've been stung before during testing). In fact a good way of knowing is thus;


if your icon is a green leaf on white background, its the old one. If its not, new one