« O2 Overclock Article Translated | Main | SGI announces Tezro/Onyx 4 »
July 10, 2003
New IRIX Tardist: Freeciv 1.14.0
Here's another gem contributed by squeen - Freeciv 1.14.0. Freeciv depends on several packages from SGI Freeware, however the tardist has been built to identify these prereqs.
What is it? "Freeciv is a multiplayer strategy game, released under the GNU General Public License. It is generally comparable with Civilization II®, published by Microprose."
More information on Freeciv can be found on the project web site.
Have fun!
Download:
Freeciv-1.14.0 (tardist) - 11.6MB
Note: I had problems getting the game to display properly until I installed the latest (beta) build of fw_pango. It will be included in the August Freeware distribution, but for now you can find it here:
ftp://shell.sgi.com/collect/freeware/fw_pango-1.0.5-sgipl1.tardist
Posted by nekonoko at July 10, 2003 10:15 AM
Comments
ncftp /collect/freeware > get fw_pango-1.0.5-sgipl1.tardist
get fw_pango-1.0.5-sgipl1.tardist: server said: fw_pango-1.0.5-sgipl1.tardist: No such file or directory
Posted by: muller at July 14, 2003 1:03 PM
That means, unfortunately, that you'll have to wait until SGI releases the August Freeware release :(
I don't have permission to mirror SGI provided tardists on this site.
Posted by: nekonoko at July 14, 2003 4:15 PM
I used the older fw_pango-1.0.5 from the freeware site and the client side works fine
unfortunately I was unable to get the server side running on my R5000
Indy? (Irix 6.5.11)
Posted by: katos at July 16, 2003 7:54 PM
What was ther server error message? I can try it on a R5K O2 and let you know.
Posted by: squeen at July 17, 2003 11:31 AM
Thanks,
The error message is as follows:
Trace/BPT/RangeErr/DivZero/Ovflow trap (core dumped)
.. I realize it is a division by zero.
I havent tried it on my indigo2 R10000 yet
Posted by: katos at July 18, 2003 4:22 PM