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Date:      Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:14:51 -0700
From:      Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com>
To:        Norbert Papke <fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca>
Cc:        rsh.lists@comcast.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Loki Linux Games on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20051011201451.GH564@ratchet.nebcorp.com>
In-Reply-To: <200510110754.35819.fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca>
References:  <434A97F0.5040906@comcast.net> <200510110754.35819.fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca>

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On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 07:54:35AM -0700, Norbert Papke wrote:
> On October 10, 2005 09:33 am, Sean wrote:

> > Of the several I have the ones in particular I would be most interested
> > in getting to work are Sim City 3000, Railroad Tycoon II, and Civ: Call
> > To Power.

> Have a look at /usr/ports/games/HeroesOfMightAndMagic for an example.
> 
> Additionally, my experience with CivCTP was to ignore the CD's install script 
> and instead copy the files manually.  After installation, flag the executable 
> as coming from a Linux system using
> 
>     % brandelf -t Linux civctp
> 
> Of course, this assumes that Linux emulation is enabled and that you have all 
> the dependencies installed.  Note that I had some issues running this game as 
> an unpriviledged user but haven't bothered to figure out why.

As memory serves, this is pretty much what I had to do to get RT2
running as well.

You might also try out simutrans, which is a freeware thing:

http://forum.simutrans.com/

-danny

-- 
http://dannyman.toldme.com/



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