Bug#788061: Bug#788057: game-data-packager: please add support for Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold and Planet Strike

[Alexandre Detiste]

2015-06-30 9:55 GMT+02:00 Fabian Greffrath <fabian at debian.org>:
> I just got in contact with ECWolf's upstream author (CC:ed) and he
> provided some clarification on the role of these two files. Relaying
> here with his permission:

Thanks !

>> The pk3 should not be installed since it's tied to the binary version.

I'll remove the reference to the .pk3 file.

>> The WAD can be installed if you like, but it will likely change
>> from time to time as S3DNA updates. You can find the wad in
>> the S3DNA repo

>> It contains all the changes for the 20th anniversary edition and
>> can be used with base ECWolf by loading manually.

Is this the right way to call it ?
"cd /usr/share/games/super-3d-noahs-ark/ ; ecwolf --file noah3d.wad"

Could ecwolf be symlinked as /usr/games/s3dna and automaticaly
start in S3DNA mode when called this way + autodetect noah3d.wad
the same ways Doom engines chex.deh for example ?

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Is this file only available via Steam or is it available on a plain website ?

If so, would it be possible to provide versioned URLs ?
(the downloaded files are matched against known-good checksums)

It's better to download an slightly older patch than no patch at all.

This file would get downloaded only if the *.n3d files are already present;
and game-data-packager uses a distinctive user-agent.

Alexandre Detiste