# dosgames/cfg - "Build" settings for package #--------------------------------------------------------------------- [technotes] 1. This package installs 5 MS-DOS "shareware" and/or "freeware" games from the 1990s: a. Conquest b. Cosmo 1: Forbidden Planet c. Hexxagon d. Keen 4: Goodbye Galaxy e. Spispopd #--------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. To set up Conquest, proceed as follows: 2a. Execute "conquest". Note: "conquest" is a script that starts the game via "dosbox". 2b. When the game's splash screen appears, press Escape to enter the game. 2c. Click anywhere on the screen. This will give "dosbox" control of the mouse. 2d. Change the game options, if desired. The following settings are recommended: Map: HEX1.MAP (or any map that you prefer) Mouse: High Sound: Off Speed: 10 2e. Click on the "Start Game" field. By default, the game runs in full-screen mode. To switch to windowed mode (or back again), press Alt-Enter. To make a screenshot, press Control-F5. Note: Screenshots are saved to the directory "/var/tmp". To make "dosbox" release the mouse, press Control-F10. #--------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. To set up Goodbye Galaxy (episode 4), proceed as follows: 3a. Execute "keen4gg". Note: "keen4gg" is a script that starts the game via "dosbox". 3b. When the game's first screen appears, press Escape three times to skip past all of the startup screens. 3c. On the main menu, use the Up and Down arrow keys to select New Game. Press Enter. 3d. On the New Game menu, use the Up and Down arrow keys to select Easy, Normal, or Hard. Press Enter. Inside the game, the keys are mapped as follows: Left-Control = Jump (or Enter Level) Space = Fire weapon By default, the game runs in full-screen mode. To switch to windowed mode (or back again), press Alt-Enter. To make a screenshot, press Control-F5. Note: Screenshots are saved to the directory "/var/tmp". #--------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. The remaining games may be documented at a later point. #--------------------------------------------------------------------- [buildtimes] 00.00 hours (or 000.02 minutes) - Dell Inspiron 6400 2.0 GHz Intel Duo 7200 2GB RAM 00.00 hours (or 000.02 minutes) - HP EliteBook 8560w 32GB RAM 00.00 hours (or 000.02 minutes) - ThinkPad E540 i7 4x2 16GB RAM 00.00 hours (or 000.03 minutes) - Compaq 1.7 GHz Intel Pentium 4 512MB RAM #--------------------------------------------------------------------- [settings] configure = none defer = glibc64 license = MS-DOS freeware and/or shareware nosyslinks = yes revision = special tmpsize = 1M unpack = none #--------------------------------------------------------------------- [depends] dosbox #--------------------------------------------------------------------- [build] BINDIR=$PKGDIR_PROD/bin DATADIR=$PKGDIR_PROD/data DISKDIR=$PKGDIR_PROD/disk DOCDIR=$PKGDIR_PROD/doc mkdir -p $BINDIR $DATADIR $DISKDIR $DOCDIR for name in conq14x forplan hexxagon keen4gg spispopd do sed -e "s|__META_PREFIX__|$PKGDIR_PROD|g" \ < $PKGDIR_SPECIAL/$name.conf.in \ > $DATADIR/$name.conf cp -p $PKGDIR_SPECIAL/$name.txt $DOCDIR/ pushd $DISKDIR unzip -qo $PKGDIR_SPECIAL/$name.zip popd cat < $BINDIR/$name resetpcmvol dosbox -conf $DATADIR/$name.conf & END done chmod 755 $BINDIR/* ln -s conq14x $BINDIR/conquest chmod -R 777 `find $DISKDIR/ -type d` #--------------------------------------------------------------------- # This package has no official URLs. It's based on MS-DOS freeware # and/or shareware that was distributed in the 1990s. For more infor- # mation, see the text files provided in this package's master re- # source tree. [urls] url_debian = n/a url_home = n/a url_lfs = n/a url_tarball = n/a