Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge problem

[crainey69]

Hello all!

New problem trying to install Excalibur:Morgana's Revenge and when I run make it can't find alephone. I tried to installed it and it says it's already installed.

Is there a parameter I need to pass to make to let it find it?

Thanks

Cory

[leadgolem]

I'm sorry, alephone? I can't find any reference to it in my system.

yum search alephone
No Matches found
yum whatprovides alephone
No Matches found

What package is this provided by?

EDIT:

find / -name alephone

Doesn't return anything either.

[crainey69]

Ok now I feel stupid. Morgana requires the game Aleph One to be installed in advance. I downloaded Aleph Once and found out it requires SDL library for ./configure, got to that point and ./configure from Aleph One reports a newer v ersion of SDL is already installed. Not sure where my brain was when I asked the question.. Sorry



I'm not sure what package it is a part of honestly and not sure where I found it courtesy of google but, here's the code output I get from make in Morgana's revenge

crainey@cory emr-3.0]$ make
[ -x /usr/local/bin/alephone ] || ( echo /usr/local/bin/alephone is not executable && false)
/usr/local/bin/alephone is not executable
make: *** [sanity] Error 1


when I do a ls for /usr/bin/local/ I get:

[crainey@cory emr-3.0]$ ls /usr/local/bin/
accc nfs2ac nfsperf texmapper torcs trackgen
[crainey@cory emr-3.0]$


Any ideas anyone?

Cory

[leadgolem]

If you don't have it then the build error you are getting from Morgana's revenge is a missing alephone. Meaning you really don't have it as opposed to the ./configure can't find it type of error.

http://source.bungie.org/

[billb]

I've got AlephOne running on my PS3. I made an RPM for it, but it's for PPC Linux so that probably won't help you...

I got the latest source code from:
http://marathon.sourceforge.net/ (click on the Linux download)

The build requires (at least):
SDL-devel SDL_image-devel SDL_net-devel speex-devel

And probably:
boost-devel

Then I compiled with:

./configure --prefix=/usr --build=ppc --disable-opengl --disable-speex
make

Of course you'll leave out the --build=ppc part, and possibly the --disable-opengl part, and maybe even the --disable-speex part (I had errors compiling with speex, but it isn't critical).

Then, as root:

make install

Once you have that completed, you don't need to compile Excalibur or any of the other mods.
If you want, you can get the Marathon M1A1, Marathon 2, and Marathon Infinity RPM packages from here: http://alephone.cebix.net/

AlephOne-M1A1-1.0-1.noarch.rpm Marathon files (RPM) (38M)
AlephOne-Marathon2-1.0-1.noarch.rpm Marathon 2 files (RPM) (29M)
AlephOne-Infinity-1.0-1.noarch.rpm Marathon Infinity files (RPM) (39M)

Those packages automatically install the data files you need to these locations:
/usr/share/AlephOne_M1A1/
/usr/share/AlephOne_Marathon2/
/usr/share/AlephOne_Infinity/

And some scripts to your /usr/bin folder:
alephone-m1a1
alephone-marathon2
alephone-infinity

For example, the alephone-infinity script looks like this:

#! /bin/sh
export ALEPHONE_DATA=/usr/share/AlephOne:/usr/share/AlephOne_Infinity
/usr/bin/alephone $*

So finally, if you just want excalibur and none of the other stuff ...

http://excaliburworld.com/emr/emr3/m.../download.html

Get the Linux version and extract it to your desired folder. For example:

su 
<root password> 

cd /usr/share 

tar xvf ~/Desktop/emr-3.0-0602.tgz

exit

And you can start it from the command line with:

ALEPHONE_DATA='/usr/share/emr-3.0/share-emr' alephone

(assuming you extracted the files to /usr/share)

AlephOne is pretty cool on the PS3 since it doesn't require OpenGL. It runs smooth at full-screen 800x600 32bpp. There are some rather strange add-ons out there for it, including:
http://www.bloodofbinladen.com/
http://www.losdisneys.com/

I like to set up the controls in the game to use the mouse, plus typical WASD keyboard movement:

Move Forward: W
Move Backward: S
Sidestep Left: A
Sidestep Right: D
Trigger: Left Mouse
2nd Trigger: Right Mouse
Action: Spacebar

[crainey69]

Thanks!

I'll try it later tonight

Cory

[leadgolem]

Considering the age of the fedora versions they are built against you may wish to rebuild the .src.rpms.

[billb]

Originally Posted by leadgolem

Considering the age of the fedora versions they are built against you may wish to rebuild the .src.rpms.

Which ones do you mean? The RPMs I'm recommending only install data files for Alephone. But yes, the AlephOne-20051119-1.i386.rpm on http://alephone.cebix.net/ is quite old. So for my PPC rpm I modified the spec file from the src.rpm, updating it to use the latest source from http://marathon.sourceforge.net

I'd share my updated src.rpm but I'm rather new at the whole rpm packaging thing. So much to learn!