Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 23:39:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Brunner <cjb@efn.org> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD support now in Descent. Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.980427233445.15701B-100000@garcia.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980427233559.303O-100000@localhost>
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On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > > > > > > > > > Stephen, it built just fine, but it doesn't want to start, so I figure > > > it's not really installed right. When it fails to start, it prints: > > > > > > picnic:/usr2/chuckr/descent:125 >ldescent > > > > > > Error: Cannot open file DESCENT.TEX or DESCENT.TXB > > > > > > so I looked to see if there was a DESCENT.TEX or DESCENT.TXB file > > > somewhere in the distribution, and maybe I could put that somewhere. > > > There isn't one. Do you have this working? What have I missed? > > > > > > > I should've mentioned that you'll need the datafiles from the registered > > version of descewnt. They're selling CDs with Descent I & II on them now. Buy > > one of those & you'll be set. > > I'm not a big gameplayer, and I'll certainly not play these under > Windows ... I thought that the descent thing would make a good demo. > Under those conditions, is buying the cd still something you'd > recommend? Does the FreeBSD version require the registered versions of the datafiles? I know that there are shareware versions of both Descent and Descent II out there which contain only the first few levels, but could be used for a demo package. I have both Descent (full version) and the demo of Descent II (came with my graphics adapter) so I'll give them a shot to see what works. -- Chris Brunner | -- cjb@efn.org | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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