(64-bit supported)
Tested: Ubuntu 7.10 • 8.04 64bit - Gnome


OpenTyrian is rewrite of the Tyrian's Pascal and Assembly source-code in C, adapting it to use modern technologies instead of arcane DOS techniques.

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Make sure that the driver to your 3D graphic card is proper installed and working.
Check if your sourcelist is correctly set.

Download the relevant libs that is needed to compile, install and run OpenTyrian;

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion
sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-net1.2-dev bcp

Done.

Open the terminal and type;

Code:

mkdir -p ~/.Games/OpenTyrian
cd ~/Desktop
svn checkout http://opentyrian.googlecode.com/svn/enhanced/trunk/ opentyrian-read-only 
wget http://it.travisbsd.org/foo/tyrian/tyrian21.zip
unzip tyrian21.zip
mkdir -p opentyrian-read-only/data
cp -r tyrian21/* opentyrian-read-only/data
cd opentyrian-read-only
make
mv * ~/.Games/OpenTyrian

Done.

Download opentyrian.png icon to your Desktop.

To the terminal;

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
mv opentyrian.png ~/.Games/OpenTyrian
nano ~/.Games/OpenTyrian-launch.sh

Add the following;

Save [ctrl] + [o] and exit [ctrl] + [x].


Code:

chmod +x ~/.Games/OpenTyrian-launch.sh
alacarte

Go to the Game section in Alacarte and push the New Item button. Fill in;

You can now launch from FreeOrion by Applications tab —> Games —> OpenTyrian

Enjoy!

Written and Published by Artificial Intelligence