INSTALL: The ALE Clone Version 1.16

Software Requirements

You need: These are optional:

Hardware Requirements

To use this program you need the following hardware:

Installation

Unix or BSD

Please follow the following instruction to get a working program.

SVGALib support

Edit Rule.make, search VIDEO and VIDEOLIB. Comment the current selection and uncomment the VIDEO=-DUSE_SVGALIB and VIDEOLIB=-lvga version. Make sure that you have installed the SVGALib development kit.

Prepare network play

You can play ALE Clone in the network or twice on the same computer. Install it on all computers with the above instructions. You can now start it on each computer with:

clone -p [players] [map]
clone -p 2 data/puds/multi/3vs3.pud.gz

The game waits until all players are connected. Press 'q' to quit the game.

You can only play over the local network!

Win32

Please follow the following instruction to get a working program.

Hints

You get libpng and libz here:
ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png

Alternative: ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png/src/

Please see the PNG homepage for more information:
http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/

You can also look at the zlib homepage for more informations:
http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/zlib.html

You get guile here:
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/guile/ Directory (try first)
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/guile/guile-1.2.tar.gz
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/guile/guile-1.3.4.tar.gz

Alternative the snapshots: ftp://ftp.red-bean.com/pub/guile/snapshots/guile-core-snap.tar.gz

You get pthread here:
Please see the LinuxThreads homepage for more information:
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/linuxthreads

You get guile-gtk here:
http://www.ping.de/sites/zagadka/guile-gtk/

Alternative from the gnome cvs, see the gnome homepage www.gnome.org

You get gtk here:
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk

Please see the GTK homepage for more information:
http://www.gtk.org/


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