railroad tycoon 2
Stephen Kitt
skitt at debian.org
Tue Feb 2 08:00:00 UTC 2016
On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 08:01:25 +0100, Alexandre Detiste
<alexandre.detiste at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's a fresh recipe for one of the Loki games.
>
> http://blog.ssokolow.com/archives/2016/01/23/how-to-get-a-playable-linux-railroad-tycoon-2-install/
>
> He gets basically in the same problems than for
> the Unreal binary with /dev/dsp.
>
> Instead of downloading some random Gentoo tarball
> we could at least get a .deb from snapshots.debian.org
> (or even the current i386 one) and unpack it with the .deb
> file support that was added to read the now deprecated
> .deb files provided by GOG.com.
That would be interesting in general to get the dynamically-linked versions
running.
I just tried the static Loki version and it works fine on my system,
including videos! Stephan mentions that it's playable without audio, see
below...
> Or maybe this pulseaudio wrapper could be made multi-arch?
>
> (Previously this kind of trick was enough, but I havn't bothered since
> there is iortcw:
> echo "wolfsp.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss)
Most OSS stuff still works for me with oss-compat, including rt2; osspd might
be worth a shot too.
Regards,
Stephen
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