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Linux / Re: I just want to play a game .....
« on: October 09, 2010, 10:39:05 am »
Well, that workaround is obvious but I haven't thought about it.
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Linux / Re: I just want to play a game .....
« on: October 08, 2010, 11:50:21 pm »
When entering a mission:
When doing $ locate game.so:
So the game is searching in the wrong folder!
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------- Loading game.so -------
not found at '/usr/lib/games/ufoai/base/ufoai'
not found at '/home/mcromao/.ufoai/2.3/base'
not found at './base'
not found at '/usr/share/games/ufoai/base'
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ERROR: failed to load game library
********************When doing $ locate game.so:
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/usr/lib/games/ufoai/base/game.so
So the game is searching in the wrong folder!
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Linux / Re: I just want to play a game .....
« on: October 08, 2010, 07:47:42 pm »
The playdeb build gives:
which is none of the paths that the game searches.
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$ locate game.so
/usr/lib/games/ufoai/base/game.so
which is none of the paths that the game searches.
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Linux / Re: I just want to play a game .....
« on: October 04, 2010, 11:41:53 am »
I've informed them, but it would be really nice if some dev would contact them directly. 
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Linux / Re: Help. Ufoai 2.3 crashes after initial screen
« on: October 02, 2010, 02:00:26 am »
And reinstall it, playdeb updated the version in theier repo.
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Linux / Re: Help. Ufoai 2.3 crashes after initial screen
« on: October 02, 2010, 01:26:32 am »
Well, I've worse than that in my eeepc and it runs, have you tried with desktop effects off?
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Linux / Re: Help. Ufoai 2.3 crashes after initial screen
« on: October 01, 2010, 06:16:17 pm »
It's a laptop, hard to upgrade the hardware
Well, try with compiz off.
How is your performance (type glxgears in command line and tell us the frames it shows)?
Well, try with compiz off.
How is your performance (type glxgears in command line and tell us the frames it shows)?
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Linux / Re: Help. Ufoai 2.3 crashes after initial screen
« on: October 01, 2010, 01:25:43 am »
How did you installed it?
Playdeb or SVN?
Edit
Do you have 3d acceleration in your machine? Type (in terminal)
It should show something like this
Wrote too soon, I can see from your log that that isn't the problem.
As long as I can guess (not dev...) you seem to lack SDL_ttf at least 2.0.7 (as far as I know it is a font something that the interface uses) see if you have the libsdl-ttf2.0-0 package installed (it is in ubuntu repo's, at least in mine...).
Playdeb or SVN?
Edit
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glxinfo | grep render It should show something like this
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direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 (RV515 7145) 20090101 x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL DRI2
[/s]Wrote too soon, I can see from your log that that isn't the problem.
As long as I can guess (not dev...) you seem to lack SDL_ttf at least 2.0.7 (as far as I know it is a font something that the interface uses) see if you have the libsdl-ttf2.0-0 package installed (it is in ubuntu repo's, at least in mine...).
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Linux / Re: I just want to play a game .....
« on: October 01, 2010, 01:23:05 am »
Here they go 
Just select the crashed ufo next to the base in europe, that log was generated by that mission.
Just select the crashed ufo next to the base in europe, that log was generated by that mission.
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Linux / Re: I just want to play a game .....
« on: September 30, 2010, 09:58:38 am »
Same problem here concerning the maps. The playdeb build doesn't enter some crashed UFO missions.
I've reported this to them but after a quick email from them I hadn't received much feedback...
I've reported this to them but after a quick email from them I hadn't received much feedback...
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Linux / Re: Game is x86_64 only?
« on: July 07, 2010, 07:54:19 pm »
I just have to say that I'm a linux user and actually I've came across this game because it has linux binnaries. I was a fan of xcom and this game was like my pride as linux user that also plays once in a while.
I'm not a developer nor a programmer (I do know C and C++ but I'm in a physics msc and my skills extend only to help me out in my area), and for that I'm sorry I can't contribute to bring a linux version for the masses.
Dispite that, I'm running ubuntu and the folks in getdeb.net (right now is offline...) have a rep for games which includes ufo 2.2, I was expecting them to make a 2.3 build but they are having problems with servers as it seems. But I guess most of your dev members run some kind of debian distro (unless you guys are so linux fans that run arch and gentoo) and so I really thought it was easy to make a .deb installer or a .rpm installer (red hat is also very used).
Once you could make them (the installers) and if you don't want to overload your servers with a rep (I understand that!) you can always relly on people who make reps as their contribution to the linux community. As a portuguese I know 1 server that can help you:
darkstar.ist.utl.pt
And also getdeb but theier server has been ill, but I guess they would be really happy to host your packages in their reps.
Also, there are many blogs that own theier own ppa (a public repository for ubuntu) like webupd8, maybe if you just do some advertising somebody will gladdly host your packages.
I don't know if I was much of a help, but sometimes I get the feelling that projects like this don't have much interest in owning theier reps and for that forget to compile or make an installer.
Also the SVN is alright to install, I did it more than once, but a stable version is much more important for must of us...
I'm not a developer nor a programmer (I do know C and C++ but I'm in a physics msc and my skills extend only to help me out in my area), and for that I'm sorry I can't contribute to bring a linux version for the masses.
Dispite that, I'm running ubuntu and the folks in getdeb.net (right now is offline...) have a rep for games which includes ufo 2.2, I was expecting them to make a 2.3 build but they are having problems with servers as it seems. But I guess most of your dev members run some kind of debian distro (unless you guys are so linux fans that run arch and gentoo) and so I really thought it was easy to make a .deb installer or a .rpm installer (red hat is also very used).
Once you could make them (the installers) and if you don't want to overload your servers with a rep (I understand that!) you can always relly on people who make reps as their contribution to the linux community. As a portuguese I know 1 server that can help you:
darkstar.ist.utl.pt
And also getdeb but theier server has been ill, but I guess they would be really happy to host your packages in their reps.
Also, there are many blogs that own theier own ppa (a public repository for ubuntu) like webupd8, maybe if you just do some advertising somebody will gladdly host your packages.
I don't know if I was much of a help, but sometimes I get the feelling that projects like this don't have much interest in owning theier reps and for that forget to compile or make an installer.
Also the SVN is alright to install, I did it more than once, but a stable version is much more important for must of us...
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Offtopic / Re: 13 Things That Do Not Make Sense (In Science)
« on: May 08, 2010, 02:32:55 pm »
First of all let me apologize for not coming here in a long time, but my course has making me spent a lot of time studying, and when we need more time time to study it seems that time runs faster (another interpertation of relativity, joking).
What Darwin made was not that difficult, except for the part that he actually made it.
I'll give this as an example: the ancient greeks knew the earth whas flat, they even calculated with amazing precision (by that time's standards) the radius of earth. Never the less, european culture not only believed for many many ears the earth was flat but it was even a sin to say the contrary. But, if you think a bit there are many arguments in our daily lives that account for earth to be round: when you see a ship going through the horizon you see it "fall", when there are moon eclipses the shadow made by earth in the moon is round, etc etc
But even still people said it was flat. Why? Nobody cared to say otherwise, and hence it needs somebody to say it! The same applies to Darwin, he had the guts to do it, although he was afraid how society would recieve his ideas (and so he published them only in his late years).
We cannot criticized somebody to have said something new just because it was not really that hard, but those are to be admired in my opinion. The same goes for many scientists through out history.
What Darwin made was not that difficult, except for the part that he actually made it.
I'll give this as an example: the ancient greeks knew the earth whas flat, they even calculated with amazing precision (by that time's standards) the radius of earth. Never the less, european culture not only believed for many many ears the earth was flat but it was even a sin to say the contrary. But, if you think a bit there are many arguments in our daily lives that account for earth to be round: when you see a ship going through the horizon you see it "fall", when there are moon eclipses the shadow made by earth in the moon is round, etc etc
But even still people said it was flat. Why? Nobody cared to say otherwise, and hence it needs somebody to say it! The same applies to Darwin, he had the guts to do it, although he was afraid how society would recieve his ideas (and so he published them only in his late years).
We cannot criticized somebody to have said something new just because it was not really that hard, but those are to be admired in my opinion. The same goes for many scientists through out history.
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Linux / Linux Repositories (Ubuntu)
« on: July 15, 2009, 06:27:42 pm »
Dead?
I've added the repositories for ubuntu jaunty in two computers.
I've installed UFO 2.3 via repository in one of them. Some days later the repository ceased to appear in aptitude or synaptic.
What happened?
Anyone else has problems with rep?
I've added the repositories for ubuntu jaunty in two computers.
I've installed UFO 2.3 via repository in one of them. Some days later the repository ceased to appear in aptitude or synaptic.
What happened?
Anyone else has problems with rep?
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Offtopic / Re: 13 Things That Do Not Make Sense (In Science)
« on: July 08, 2009, 10:05:18 am »
About the possibility of some laws being wrong.
As it was already argued, these laws have been tested experimentally over and over again. Physics is not mathematics: physics most take into account experiment.
Of course you can always argue that those same laws might not work in other cases, if that's the case we need to develop those laws and try to understanding them better, but in the end the "new version" most be in agreement with the cases already know.
Take for example de Schroedinger Equation. The equation doesn't come from anything, it is not a result of any calculation: it was constructed by hand with strong arguments. Why do we use it? It returns outstanding results for quantum mechanics AND returns classical mechanics in non quantum limits. So it is consistent and experimentally verified, hence it seems to be valid so far. But this same equation suffered a mutation little after it was born, when people made it relativistic they made the Dirac Equation, this one also is consistent and experimentally verified. As you can see things change but are always consisting with each other and with experimental data.
About Einstein. IMO, contrary to popular belief Einstein was not a super-human, he was an hard working physicist. Physics is a though subject, only really understandable through hard work and dedication. Nobody comes to this world knowing quantum mechanics, relativity, etc, in that way there are no "Genius" as the movies and tv portrait, "Genius" in physics is the same to say "hard working fellow".
Of course this is not the same as saying that it is equally easy or difficult for everybody, and in that matter I can assure you that Einstein was really clever about Physics, he had a really good intuition about the structure of physics. He was very good with ideas, much of them were only proven wrong or right many years latter from his death.
As it was already argued, these laws have been tested experimentally over and over again. Physics is not mathematics: physics most take into account experiment.
Of course you can always argue that those same laws might not work in other cases, if that's the case we need to develop those laws and try to understanding them better, but in the end the "new version" most be in agreement with the cases already know.
Take for example de Schroedinger Equation. The equation doesn't come from anything, it is not a result of any calculation: it was constructed by hand with strong arguments. Why do we use it? It returns outstanding results for quantum mechanics AND returns classical mechanics in non quantum limits. So it is consistent and experimentally verified, hence it seems to be valid so far. But this same equation suffered a mutation little after it was born, when people made it relativistic they made the Dirac Equation, this one also is consistent and experimentally verified. As you can see things change but are always consisting with each other and with experimental data.
About Einstein. IMO, contrary to popular belief Einstein was not a super-human, he was an hard working physicist. Physics is a though subject, only really understandable through hard work and dedication. Nobody comes to this world knowing quantum mechanics, relativity, etc, in that way there are no "Genius" as the movies and tv portrait, "Genius" in physics is the same to say "hard working fellow".
Of course this is not the same as saying that it is equally easy or difficult for everybody, and in that matter I can assure you that Einstein was really clever about Physics, he had a really good intuition about the structure of physics. He was very good with ideas, much of them were only proven wrong or right many years latter from his death.
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