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Originally Posted by Radicalz38

Just apt-get install python libvorbisfile3

then do
cd /usr/lib
ln -s libpython2.6.so.1.0 libpython2.5.so.1.0

Originally Posted by lonk

No luck for me, here's what I get:

Code:

Nokia-N900:~# apt-get install python libvorbisfile3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
python is already the newest version.
libvorbisfile3 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

I get this

Code:

Nokia-N900:~# cd /usr/lib/ 
Nokia-N900:/usr/lib# ln -s libpython2.6.so.1.0 libpython2.5.so.1.0
ln: libpython2.5.so.1.0: File exists

and when I try executing paintown I get:

Code:

Nokia-N900:/home/user/paintown# ./paintown 
./paintown: error while loading shared libraries: libpython2.6.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Originally Posted by Radicalz38

sorry about this I messed up again... Instead of

ln -s libpython2.6.so.1.0 libpython2.5.so.1.0

it should be like this

ln -s libpython2.5.so.1.0 libpython2.6.so.1.0

Originally Posted by SavageD

how is the perfomance?
good, fast, slight lag?

Originally Posted by lonk

Ok @600MHZ and without changing any settings that can improve performance


-Mugen: very laggy and low framerate, it seems like it's because of the music playing, when it stops playing it runs better. @805MHZ runs full speed with some lags here every minute or so
-Adventure Mode: works better than mugen mode, didn't lag that much or at all. Should be fast @805MHZ
-Platformer Mode: Just the mario background from my screenshot shows, and that's it, so either it doesn't work or I need to add some mods myself for it to work

Originally Posted by jon5

Hi, I am the author of Paintown. Glad to see you guys got it working on the N900. A long time ago I got Paintown to run on the N500 using the Allegro4 library, I had a picture of it somewhere but I can't find it..

Anyway python really has nothing to do with the current implementation. Its just there to experiment with writing scripted levels but so far none exist so a new build could be made that does not include python and you would not have to fool with linking python2.5 to 2.6 (which is fairly dangerous, if python was actually used it would most likely crash at some point).

The platformer thing is an experimental feature that has no content other than being able to scroll around the mario background. You can disable it by removing the (platformer ...) part from data/menu/main.txt.

The keys in the mugen.cfg don't do anything so don't bother changing them.

I know mugen mode is fairly slow, there are many graphical effects that mugen uses which are slow to reproduce in software using 16-bit color. The original mugen was written in 8-bit color and doing palette effects there was relatively painless.

How much memory does the typical n900 have? I have troubles running some mugen characters on the Wii for example because it only has 80m of ram. I am slowly working on optimizing memory usage in mugen as well.

I'm curious as to why the game crashes the first time an option is selected but the second time it works. Can you provide any more information as to exactly under what circumstances that occurs?

Feel free to join me in my irc channel on irc.freenode.net in #paintown.

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