New Port: Stratagus, a WC2 engine

[Bundyo]

This one was in fact ported by linman. Stratagus is an OSS RTS engine, compatible with Warcraft 2, but can run other OSS campaigns, get them here (http://www.stratagus.org/games.shtml) (only Warcraft 2 was tested though). Right click for movement has been mapped to double click in a 32x32 square (since double click with a stylus is tricky). The hardware buttons are not remapped for now. The resolution is 800x480 (but says 800x600 in the options).

Screenshot:
http://www.bundyo.org/maemo/stratagus/stratagus.png

To get any game working:
1. Install the deb from here: http://www.mediafire.com/?3f30xvhrd1g.
2. Copy the game files in the /media/mmc1/games/stratagus (internal card).

For Warcraft 2 it is trickier - use Wargus (http://wargus.sourceforge.net/) to convert the Warcraft data files from your original CD to Stratagus ones and then copy them to the card. NOTE: The linux convert script creates two symlinks, which would not work in vfat, so please use the windows one or after the convert replace the symlinks with the real files.

EDIT: Updated to 0.1-4, in Media Fire. Arnim, could you update your file too?

Fixed from 0.1-3:
* Fixed the crash when started from the menu. Quite stable now.

EDIT: Updated to 0.1-3.

Fixed from version 0.2:
* The menu link now works.
* The custom resolution files copy to the card.

Version 0.2(do not use): http://pupnik.de/stratagus-0.1-2_armel.deb (thanks to Arnim)

That's all folks. have fun.

[zehjotkah]

Wohaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
Linman, you´re my hero!!!
I love you... sweeeeeeeet...
Another reason to buy a IT!!!!

Edit: Is it possible to play Starcraft with that?
If not, will it be possible in the future?

Thanks

[JFX]

Awesome man. Great stuff! KEEP IT COMING GOD.

[linman]

Bundyo, thanks for your help!

[linman]

Wohaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
Linman, you´re my hero!!!
I love you... sweeeeeeeet...
Another reason to buy a IT!!!!

Edit: Is it possible to play Starcraft with that?
If not, will it be possible in the future?

Thanks

The project does not support starcraft at all but in the feature I hope it will.
See this: http://stargus.sourceforge.net/features.shtml
When it become functional we will try to port it.

[CyberCat]

Hey Bundyo, when I try to install it, it says"Incompatible application package." What do I need to do?

It also says it will use 1.7GB... :eek:

[Bundyo]

Just downloaded it from the site and installed it from the command prompt, seems to be working. Let me check from the browser...

[Bundyo]

Yes, there seems to be a problem with the Nokia app manager... I'll look into it, meanwhile

dpkg -i stratagus-0.1_armel.deb

works normal.

[jussik]

Yes, there seems to be a problem with the Nokia app manager...

I believe AM only installs files that have section "user/something".

[CyberCat]

Bundyo, dpkg worked fine. What's the directory structure supposed to look like? I've got a feeling my files or permissions are incorrect. When I start stratagus, I get about 30 or so errors like"can't open file `orc/units/teron_gotrfiend/annoyed/1.wav' also it says "couldn't set 800x600x0 video mode: no video mode large enough for 800x600
terminate called without an active exception"

[Bundyo]

Okay, updated the link in the first post, now it will install through app manager (10x jussik), still says 1.7G though but that's easy.

@CyberCat:
In /media/mmc1/games/stratagus you should have directories like this:
campaigns
graphics
maps
music
scripts
sounds

[ArnimS]

Thanks linman, bundyo!

The mediafire link package has correct control information:
Package: stratagus
Priority: optional
Section: user/other

Users: if you try to install a .deb package and it gives an error, please report what OS you are using! (os2007/os2008)

(edit) I don't know how long those mediafire files are active. If you don't mind, i can host the deb also and make a little page for it (with attribution of course). Does this install on OS2007 also?
http://pupnik.de/stratagus-0.1-2_armel.deb

[OSEmuTech]

Bundyo, dpkg worked fine. What's the directory structure supposed to look like? I've got a feeling my files or permissions are incorrect. When I start stratagus, I get about 30 or so errors like"can't open file `orc/units/teron_gotrfiend/annoyed/1.wav' also it says "couldn't set 800x600x0 video mode: no video mode large enough for 800x600
terminate called without an active exception"

I'm getting the same thing. Those wav files weren't dumped by Wargus. And despite Stratagus ignoring those wav files and attempts to load, it gives me the 800x600x0 error and ends too.

At the beginning, when loaded via terminal, it says it says it 'Can't open file "preferences.lua": No such file or directory.'

I have all the directories set up in /media/mmc1/games/stratagus.

But Wargus uses the files and runs on Windows correctly.

[CyberCat]

I'm getting the same thing. Those wav files weren't dumped by Wargus. And despite Stratagus ignoring those wav files and attempts to load, it gives me the 800x600x0 error and ends too.

At the beginning, when loaded via terminal, it says it says it 'Can't open file "preferences.lua": No such file or directory.'

I have all the directories set up in /media/mmc1/games/stratagus.

But Wargus uses the files and runs on Windows correctly.

Yeah, exactly the same with me. My directories should be setup properly, but it won't start. And now, I guess this program (or something) has caused my usb mode to stop working so I can't connect my unit to my computer anymore. :(

[Bundyo]

Maybe the files for the 800x480 resolution aren't copied properly... check if you have stratagus/graphics/ui/human/800x480 and stratagus/graphics/ui/orc/800x480

also i have those not found sound messages too and i don't have preferences.lua in stratagus/scripts, but stratagus runs.

If you start it from the command prompt use this line:

stratagus -v 2 -d /media/mmc1/games/stratagus/

You can also try with -v 1 which will start the game in 640x480 (if the files for 800x480 are not in the right place)

USB is highly unlikely to be affected by Stratagus. Mine is working and i installed and reinstalled this package too many times.

[Bundyo]

@Arnim: Thanks, appreciated. Didn't try in OS2007.

[Bundyo]

Oh, stupid me, forgot to update the service file. I guess nobody has been able to run it from the menu...

For who don't want to reinstall - edit the file /usr/share/dbus-1/services/com.nokia.stratagus.service to exec the file like that

Exec=/usr/bin/stratagus -v 2 -d /media/mmc1/games/stratagus

(the same as in the desktop file). For the others - soon there will be another deb.



EDIT: Updated the main post with a new version (Arnim, could you update yours too?).

[OSEmuTech]

Cool! Thanks Bundyo ... I can launch the game from the menu now. However, while the lone peasant is building a town hall, the game repeatedly crashes with no warning. :confused:

[Bundyo]

And again does this happen if started from terminal?

[Bundyo]

No it doesn't (also works in 770 with OS2008HE, but very slow).

Again this menu crashing problem, i get the feeling this is related to dbus in some way.

[OSEmuTech]

And again does this happen if started from terminal?

Great! It appears to be stable after running via terminal shell (I meant to try that ;)):

stratagus -v 2 -d /media/mmc1/games/stratagus

BTW: Can we run this on mmc2? Can it be hildonized so we can switch to another program and switch back to the game (mainly so I can take screenshots of the game)?

http://fkwjcw.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p27A0pF0A3D_i7_TA_VFykfdnFqUoy_Whs8_y1Izk1t59fZd 3ZW7T6lx_VYVDBnjz_w18dvWhoC0JxBjcKaW55Q/stratagus.jpg

[CyberCat]

Thanks Bundyo. It turned out the USB issue had to do with my computer. I don't know what happened, but I just rebooted and it seems to be working ok now. Your -3 version runs ok for me, although it does crash when I try to build stuff. It doesn't crash when I run it from the terminal though. This game plays plays surprisingly well on the tablets, a little bit slow yes, but totally playable. A mouse would sure make it easier! Thanks a lot for this!! :D

[Bundyo]

No problem ;)
Though it doesn't crash when you build, if you leave the game for a while it will crash by itself. These symptoms are usually caused when the dbus service isn't properly configured, but i can't seem to solve it for now.

[Bundyo]

Updated to 0.1-4, fixed crashing when starting from menu.

[spirytsick]

I am trying to get the boswars to start but with no luck. Does it need a modified engine ?

[Bundyo]

Let me check.

EDIT: This game is not going to work anytime soon - requires OpenGL to get compiled. Sorry.

[spirytsick]

thanks Bundyo. I can now safely delete it from the tablet :) and hunt the old copy of w2

[Nathan]

Quick Question, does it support the music? Or did something not get copied correctly?

-- Edit: Answer: Nope; the Wargus converter doesn't pull music. I'll see if I can get it to play mp3's... :)

[Nathan]

Very Interesting, I've got the title music working. Unfortunately the game doesn't support MP3 or OGG so you have to use either a WAV or a .WAV compressed with gzip (maybe bzip, haven't tried it but the source code supports it) to at least take a bit (about 1/5th) of size off of it.

Man I forgot how much I loved the WC music until I heard it coming out of my N810... :-D

Someone else has a simple LUA patch to add file based music instead of CD music. I'll convert it to wav format patch and then if you really want to "waste" 20-30 megs of space for the music (like me) you can. ;-)

Once I have ported it -- I'll let post the simple replacement script file. In the meantime you can download the "official WCII MP3" from several sites on the web (22 megs) -- Blizzard released them a while back.

Nathan.

[Michiel]

This looks great, and I can't wait to play it on my N800 (OS2008), but I can't get it to work properly. Installing the .deb from the opening post and extracting game files went ok, but when I try to run it (with stratagus -v 2 -d /media/mmc1/games/stratagus) I get the following:

...A long list with things like this:
Can't open file `ui/statsthump.wav'
Can't load the sound `ui/statsthump.wav'
...

[string "/media/mmc1/games/stratagus/scripts/fonts.l..."]:32: error in function 'New'.
argument #3 is 'nil'; 'number' expected.
2
stack traceback:
[C]: ?
[C]: in function `New'
[string "/media/mmc1/games/stratagus/scripts/fonts.l..."]:32: in main chunk
[C]: in function `Load'
[string "/media/mmc1/games/stratagus/scripts/stratag..."]:333: in main chunk

Also tried -v 1, same problem.

[Bundyo]

Can you post the directory structure of /media/mmc1/games/stratagus?

[Michiel]

ofcourse, it's a straight copy from what Wargus extracted:

Links to images of directory structure (it's exactly the same on memorycard in N800)

Part 1 (http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/5483/wargustree1ss0.jpg)
Part 2 (http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/4996/wargustree2bn0.jpg)
Part 3 (http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/6341/wargustree3wb6.jpg)

I should add; it works perfectly on PC (windowsXP)

[Bundyo]

Are you sure everything is copied? Could you connect it to your PC and run the PC stratagus with the same data?

[ArnimS]

Links to images of directory structure (it's exactly the same on memorycard in N800)


As an aside, unless i'm misremembering, you can capture the output of tree on windows with output redirection, e.g. tree > mydirtree.txt

[PeteBog]

Very Interesting, I've got the title music working. Unfortunately the game doesn't support MP3 or OGG so you have to use either a WAV or a .WAV compressed with gzip (maybe bzip, haven't tried it but the source code supports it) to at least take a bit (about 1/5th) of size off of it.

Man I forgot how much I loved the WC music until I heard it coming out of my N810... :-D

Someone else has a simple LUA patch to add file based music instead of CD music. I'll convert it to wav format patch and then if you really want to "waste" 20-30 megs of space for the music (like me) you can. ;-)

Once I have ported it -- I'll let post the simple replacement script file. In the meantime you can download the "official WCII MP3" from several sites on the web (22 megs) -- Blizzard released them a while back.

Nathan.
If you do not wish to dload 20-30M of mp3s, an alternative is to download the midi files that amounts to <150K. Then use timidity to convert the mid files to ogg,mp3 or wav.

Garage appears to contain a Timidity player but i'd imagine the cpu load would be too high for ingame music. One alternative may be to convert the midi files to mod format. Mod files are somewhat smaller than mp3s and playback cpu load would be low.

You mentioned a lua patch. I've been unable to get DefinePlaySections working in sound.lua. Any info would be useful.

Pete

[pearl62]

I am getting the same errors reporting the preferences.lua and .wav files missing.

At the end of the error messages is one final one that seems to be stopping it:

"Invalid graphic (width, height) ui/fonts/small.png
Expected: (7,6) Found: (90,84)
terminate called without an active exception
Aborted"

This is with executing from xterm with -v 1 or -v 2. I am using the latest OS2008 (51-3) on a N800.

Can someone send me their ui/fonts/small.png file?

[linman]

I am waiting to get my n800 and after that I will check the whole port. I have a plan to support original sound track if it possible without decreasing game speed and current frame rate.

Meanwhile I am trying to port Widelands and now it works fine ... I just have to remove the last edges and will make the package.

[pearl62]

Thanks! Replacing small.png seemed to make it work.

I've attached it here in case anyone else needs it... It goes in the /media/mmc1/games/stratagus/graphics/ui/fonts/ folder.

[pearl62]

It starts now, but crashes within just a few minutes. Not sure why...

[linman]

It starts now, but crashes within just a few minutes. Not sure why...

See this http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=143967&postcount=17

[pearl62]

That seemed to help only a little... The game lasted maybe a minute longer. I also tried moving the game files to mmc2, which for me a a faster class 6 SD card. The game was faster, but it still crashed.

It looks promising, but is there anything I can check to try to get better results?

[pearl62]

As soon as the third peasant is delivered it crashes.

[linman]

Which version of WC2 you tried to create data files with wargus?
You need warcraft 2 version 1.22 "tides of darkness". Make your data files from this version and try the game again.

[pearl62]

That's what I was thinking... I'm trying to find that version. Thanks!

[Bundyo]

Yes, the battle net edition is not supported i think.

[linman]

Finally I got my n800 device :) Next days I am going to try the game and maybe will create new package.

[pearl62]

Ok, finally found the tides of darkness version and it's working really well, at 640x480. How do I get the 800x480 files?

Also, the double click doesn't seem to work as a right click. It's maddening! The only way I can get a guy to go where I want is to double click when the destination is in fog (I hope that makes sense...), or use the M command. The double click only works to get a guy to move to an open space.

[Bundyo]

For some operations the double click is working - like wood cutting :)

When you install the package it should automatically install the 800x480 files. If it don't - rename the directory and try to reinstall, then look in the new dir for the 800x480 files and add them to the others.

[pearl62]

Awesome!! It works great now.

[zehjotkah]

Thanks!!!
I had to install "libbz2" via redpill-mode
then it works, but starting from caommand-line gives some errors, but the game starts, and it works very well!!!
THANKS

[Twistedgrim]

I installed bzip2 to make it work libbz2 isnt available for 2008 for me for some reason but bzip2 worked

apt-get install bzip2

also just wanted to say I had some confusion about the data to install FROM wargus the data folder in the wargus directory is the one to load from gives the files exactly.. Hope this helps the next person.. Man I got RA and WC2 could this be any better.

[OID]

Hi! Good job, but game doesn't work for me:
Stratagus default config file loading ...

[string "data/scripts/stratagus.lua"]:54: attempt to call global `SetMenuMusic' (a nil value)2
stack traceback:
[C]: in function `SetMenuMusic'
[string "data/scripts/stratagus.lua"]:54: in main chunk
I have some errors on configuration files.

[konus]

Hi! Good job, but game doesn't work for me:
Stratagus default config file loading ...

[string "data/scripts/stratagus.lua"]:54: attempt to call global `SetMenuMusic' (a nil value)2
stack traceback:
[C]: in function `SetMenuMusic'
[string "data/scripts/stratagus.lua"]:54: in main chunk
I have some errors on configuration files.

i have same errors... :(

[hyankov]

Thanks. Great to see WarCraft 2 again. Speed is terrible though... How did you guys move the files to MMC2?

[zehjotkah]

speed is here fullspeed.
maybe you have the wrong version? read the first post again...
just move the game-files to external mmc (on N810 mmc1) mmc1/games/stratagus

[hyankov]

Maybe I misunderstood something but...
It was on MMC1, worked fine, but slow. Moved the files to mmc2 (my other card, duh) and game doesn't start. So I guess it works with mmc1 only.

Thanks.

[belgarath419]

Is anyone else unable to see their own cloaked submarine/turtle units?

[allnameswereout]

Hihi wow!! Fills me with warm feelings seeing this possible :) (although I won't run games)