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Monster RPG 2 is now available to purchase from the Ubuntu Software Centre at the price of $2.99. Originally available on Windows and OS X, it is now available on Ubuntu.
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QuoteYou take a simple villager and develop her into a hero with the power to save her world. The next installment in the classic Monster RPG series, Monster RPG 2 is a turn-based role-playing game with enough variety, plot twists, secrets, and scenery to keep even the old school players coming back for more. If you loved the 16 bit classics on systems like SNES, you'll love this game.
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http://www.monster-rpg.com/
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I'm looking for testers for operating systems that haven't been tested. So far what's covered:
Ubuntu
Fedora 13 x86
Arch x64
openSuse x64
Funtoo x64 (this might cover gentoo also, not sure)
Some I would really like to test are:
Arch x86
Fedora, latest both archs
Latest openSuse both archs
Gentoo both archs
Mint both
Debian both
Slackware both
I don't think I need people to test the whole game on all of these distros. Maybe someone wants to be a basic coverage tester and install all of these distros and make sure that 1) the game starts up, 2) it runs with all features such as sound working. 3) you can play through the first battle (this is a 5 minute test). You could probably get away with testing only one arch per distro, varying back and forth such as Arch x86, Fedora x64, opensuse x86 and so on. If someone wants to do this that would be really great. If not, I might do a little more spot testing myself.
Thanks
Also, big kudos for trying to cover so much. I would have said to just test debian, fedora and maybe something like opensuse or the latest mandrake incarnation. Smaller distros or ones that allow heavy customization like Gentoo are probably a little over ambitious. (I say that as a Gentoo fan.)
I think it's fair to say that Linux distros need to cooperate more on compatibility matters. I'm thinking LSB but better. I was just bummed because I don't know how to buy from Canonical's app store without running a newish Ubuntu. It didn't matter if I could make it run.
Not saying I disagree with you, but what exactly would you suggest they do differently?
On the whole I have not had any real compatibility problems even with really old Loki games, or with more modern games built on other distros (TTimo builds the id games on Debian, for example, and I never had any problems on Fedora). We of course appreciate the broad testing being conducted by the developer in this case, and it certainly will make Monster RPG 2 a better product, but the Linux "distro incompatibility" bogeyman is for the most part overstated. If you use standard libraries (SDL, OpenAL, OpenGL) then for the most part you are golden.
echo "terminus 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/ossrnecho "terminus 0 0 disable" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss
Some programs dynamically link and you run into problems because different distro build different versions of packages. You get problems with some things because GTK 1 is dead. You have the mess that came with pulseaudio and all the games that had to release updates to support it. I've had to fight to get FAKK2 Heavy Gear2 to work at times. rnrnBut I guess what I really meant was "LSB, but better." A larger list of library ABIs that a developer can reasonable rely on. Maybe LSB got better since I last looked at it.rnrnAlso, I think that all of the native package managers need to provide a common, generic install interface that installers like bitrock, mojo and
May I suggest next time you have a problem you check to see if Linux Installers for Linux Gamers has an installer for it? They provide installers, usually for older titles, that come with scripts and libraries to make them work without any problems on modern systems.
What would be really great is if we could have a GOG for Linux games, such as the old Loki titles, Hyperion titles, Terminus, and the like. May be too much to hope for, but that would make things a lot easier.