mini-HOWTO Powermanga 0.71

Loïs Taulelle, lois.taulelle -at- free dot fr

v0.3.2 en, March, 8th 2003.
This document is a nano-guide aimed to quickly fix the little installation bug -no sound, the game doesn't start- of the Powermanga game by TLK Games on GNU/Linux or Unix systems. The information shown herein will severely increase the programmer -er sorry, player! :o)- productivity. This workaround isn't the ultimate one, it is given without any success garanteed . I tested it on RedHat 6.2 & 7.0 and Debian 2.2r2 & 2.2r3. Today, the problem is resolved in the Debian Woody distribution.

1. Introduction

The Powermanga game is a space shoot'em up in the great Asteroïd or Space Invaders tradition, issued by the TLK Games company.

After compiling and installing according to the README file instructions, here is what happened to me:

      lois@skons:~$ powermanga 
      seal.cpp/seal_chargeModule() ALoadModuleFile failed AUDIO_ERROR_FILENOTFOUND
      lois@skons:~$
And poof! -Yes, poof!- nothing, no game, zilch. Infuriating.

2. Pre-requisite

The powermanga-0.71.tar.gz tarball in the 0.71c version, available on the http://www.tlk.fr or http://www.tlk.fr/lesjeux sites.

A "multimedia" computer with some properly configured GNU/Linux or any Unix -sound, video, X server, window manager, ...-.

The standard compilation packages of your distribution:

3. Fixings

Fixing my problem:

=> no make install, hand job. ;-)

  1. login as root in an X console (Xterm, eterm, ...),
  2. uncompres powermanga-0.71.tar.gz tarball wherever you see fit -~/, /tmp, /usr/src, ...-,
  3. compile the program through the usual make in the directory created from the tarball,
  4. create a /usr/local/games/powermanga directory,
  5. recursively copy into /usr/local/games/powermanga/ from:
  6. copy powermanga.6 into: /usr/share/man/man6/,
  7. fine tune owner rights for the users (if needed),
  8. cd to /usr/local/games/powermanga/,

    You may also create a symbolic link from your favorite directory to this one -/usr/local/games/powermanga/-, it's quicker. :o)

  9. launch ./powermanga,
  10. Beat them' !
-note: On the TLK site, the game is said to have 41 levels ...-

4. Web page of Powermanga

http://www.tlk.fr

5. Other formats for this document:

This document has originally been written in plain text (v0.0). Then, Joel pointed me to sgml-tools and the linuxdoc DTD. So, since its 0.1 version, it is originally in SGML.

HTML and PDF conversions are available on: http://lois.taulelle.free.fr

6. TODO

  • Translate this prose into other languages.
  • Add a brief user manual. (TLK agreement?)
  • Make clearer and more precise Fixings section explanations.
  • If you think of anything else: lois.taulelle -at- free dot fr.

    • 7. Thanks, Helping Hands, Copyright.

    7.1 Thanks

    To Joel for having shown me this game, the corrections and the first conversions AND translation of this mini-HOWTO.

    To the whole team of TLK for having developped this game and put the Linux version in GPL.

    7.2 Helping Hands

    Joel Sagnes ( joels69 _at_ club-internet dot fr)

    If you wish to take a part in this HOWTO, please contact me: lois.taulelle _at_ free dot fr

    7.3 Copyright

    Copyright © 2001 Loïs Taulelle.

    This document may be redistributed according the LDP license terms, available at http://linuxdoc.org.