Whilst having a hunt through some things that I had placed in storage a couple of years ago (and then forgot about) I happened across my original CD of Serious Sam - The First Encounter.
As this is one of the games where Loki games provided a proper Linux installer for it I thought I'd give it a bit of a blast.
Problem 1 - Tracking down the installer.
This should have been easy - ie. go to the Croteam website and download the installer, right?
Nope. They had some archived patches for a Linux installation, but not the damn installer - or if the do have it they've hidden it well.
I eventually tracked down the installer here:
Loki Installers for Linux Games
Problem 2 - Installation
So far, so good. Apart from the fact that the installer doesn't work (at least, not without some effort).
So here is a quick rundown on how to get the installer working.
First, move the installer into its own directory:
mkdir ssam
mv serious.sam.tfe_1.05beta3-english-2.run ssam
cd ssam
chmod +x serious.sam.tfe_1.05beta3-english-2.run
Make sure the original Windows CD is in your drive. And if you want you can try and run the installer.
./serious.sam.tfe_1.05beta3-english-2.run
If you are lucky it might work. If so then go, play, enjoy. See you later.
However, you may well find that you see the following:
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Serious Sam: The First Encounter 1.05beta3-english-2 Installer.............................
after which you are back at the terminal prompt.
If this is the case, then you can try the following, which worked for me.
./serious.sam.tfe_1.05beta3-english-2.run --tar xvf
sudo ./setup.data/bin/Linux/x86/setup
And that should be it. The installer should run and you can choose where to install it and finally play the game!
Sunday, 17 October 2010
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