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


Sword of Fargoal is a dungeon adventure game published in 1983 through a Silicon Valley game company called “Epyx,” famous for pioneering adventure games such as “Temple of Apshai” and others. A newly released computer called the Commodore 64, which boasted a whopping 64K of RAM, changed everything for computer gaming history … and so the story began!

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Make sure that your sourcelist is correctly set.

Next grab the required tools, libs and -devs to build and install Sword of Fargoal.

Code:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
sudo aptitude install build-essential
sudo aptitude install liballegro4.2-dev

Done.

Download the PC version to your Desktop.

Download

Code:

mkdir -p ~/.Games/SwordOfFargoal
cd ~/Desktop
unzip SwordofFargoalPC.zip
cd fargoal/src
make
cd ..
rm sword.exe
mv * ~/.Games/SwordOfFargoal

Done.

Safe sword.png to your Desktop.

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
mv sword.png ~/.Games/SwordOfFargoal
nano ~/.Games/SwordOfFargoal-launch.sh

Add the following;

Save = [ctrl] + [o] & Exit = [ctrl] + [x]


Code:

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

Go to Games and make a new entry;

Exit.

You can now launch Sword of Fargoal by Applications tab —> Games —> Sword of Fargoals

Enjoy!

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