SDL Game Freecraft

[medmed]

Please find another SDL port: Freecraft

Freecraft is a free clone of Blizzard's famous realtime strategy game, WarCraft II.

Source are from https://web.archive.org/web/20050126165 ... src.tar.gz

Original data are from http://dasixk.free.fr/freecraft-1.18.lzx

You'll find 020/CF binaries & Mint patch here.

Enjoy!

NB: You can adapt the resolution you want in the option menu. Some docs.

[marss]

Works great

[medmed]

Cool!

[ThorstenOtto]

Your patches to the type casts are wrong. You have it changed to

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#define	FetchLE16(p)	SDL_SwapLE16(*((unsigned short*)(p)++))

But "++" is right-associative, so it will be applied to p only (without the cast), therefor incrementing the pointer only by 1 if it is a void * or char *. You have to use something ugly like

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(((unsigned short*)(p += 2))[-1])

[vido]

It works grerat on the FireBee! Thank you!
Your realy made my day with this port!!!
I really like starategy games like that

[medmed]

Your patches to the type casts are wrong. You have it changed to

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#define	FetchLE16(p)	SDL_SwapLE16(*((unsigned short*)(p)++))

But "++" is right-associative, so it will be applied to p only (without the cast), therefor incrementing the pointer only by 1 if it is a void * or char *. You have to use something ugly like

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(((unsigned short*)(p += 2))[-1])

Many thanks Thorsten,

I did as quick as I could to let gcc build this twenty year old code
Many thanks for the tips.
I'll repatch with it asap.

[medmed]

It works grerat on the FireBee! Thank you!
Your realy made my day with this port!!!
I really like starategy games like that

happy to hear that

[ThorstenOtto]

A few more notes:

- You need to enable -DUSE_LIBMODPLUG to be able to play music
- there are problems again with upper-/lowercase filenames from the data archive (e.g Graphics vs graphics). Also some filenames seems to be truncated there. I've made a fixed archive on https://tho-otto.de/download/sdl/freecraft-data.tar.xz (but maybe you want to have a look again). It also seems to be strange that a lot of content is duplicate, eg graphics and data/graphics.

It should also be noted that this game seems to be discontinued because of copyright problems. There is a successor to this on https://github.com/Wargus/stratagus, unfortunately that requires SDL2.

[vido]

As Otto mentioned there are problems with filenames. It works on the FAT FS but not on the ext2 FS.
Also the option save game is not working. The file cant be saved.

The game runs really smooth on the FireBee

[ThorstenOtto]

@vido: you can try the data archive linked above. It can also be used for medmed version. It must be directly extracted to the directory where the game is installed (there is no path prepended).

You can also try the version that i've build : https://tho-otto.de/download/sdl/freecr ... bin.tar.xz (also contains the data already installed)

As for the save games: it should work, but there are (atleast) two bugs. The game uses $HOME/.freecraft/save as directory, but does not check whether $HOME is set at all. And there is some rendering problem in the "fileselector":

Screenshot_20231214_103514.png

Also, the shortcuts for this (F11 + F12) are not available on Atari, and should be changed.

Edit: fileselector looks ok when invoked from the main menu:

Screenshot_20231214_105016.png

[medmed]

A few more notes:

- You need to enable -DUSE_LIBMODPLUG to be able to play music
- there are problems again with upper-/lowercase filenames from the data archive (e.g Graphics vs graphics). Also some filenames seems to be truncated there. I've made a fixed archive on https://tho-otto.de/download/sdl/freecraft-data.tar.xz (but maybe you want to have a look again). It also seems to be strange that a lot of content is duplicate, eg graphics and data/graphics.

It should also be noted that this game seems to be discontinued because of copyright problems. There is a successor to this on https://github.com/Wargus/stratagus, unfortunately that requires SDL2.

Ah, Thanks Thorsten.
I'll grab the archive.
Yes it seems that people replaced this archive contents with those of the original CD.
The SDL1 successor source code can be found on sourceforge but it needs lua5.0

[medmed]

@vido: you can try the data archive linked above. It can also be used for medmed version. It must be directly extracted to the directory where the game is installed (there is no path prepended).

You can also try the version that i've build : https://tho-otto.de/download/sdl/freecr ... bin.tar.xz (also contains the data already installed)

As for the save games: it should work, but there are (atleast) two bugs. The game uses $HOME/.freecraft/save as directory, but does not check whether $HOME is set at all. And there is some rendering problem in the "fileselector":
Screenshot_20231214_103514.png

Also, the shortcuts for this (F11 + F12) are not available on Atari, and should be changed.

Edit: fileselector looks ok when invoked from the main menu:
Screenshot_20231214_105016.png

There're filenames with coma (bloodlust,haste,slow,invisible,shield.png) and many spaces. Could it be the reason why it's broken?

[ThorstenOtto]

A few of the filenames in the original archive were truncated (.png.g instead of .png.gz for example), maybe because amiga has a limit on filename length? Theoretically, someone has to check the actual names, and how they are referenced. But that's a tedious task.