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MU

veeery beautiful Exclamation

from: http://www.dreamchess.org/

requires OpenGL and LibSDL.
Compiled in Muppy 008.3 (Puppy 301).

I don't know how it runs without hardware acceleration.
Try the different skins in the menu.

I attach 2 screenshots.

Download (5 MB):
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Games/Dreamchess-0.2.0.pup
mirror:
http://puppyfiles.ca/dotpupsde/dotpups/Games/Dreamchess-0.2.0.pup

Notes:
depends on minixml.
2.5 did not work, so I used 2.0.
That seems to have a small bug, creating a options.xml with 2 "?".
So I run a sed comand before dreamchess is launched.
If you still encounter errors, I could try another version.
But with this fix it seems to work fine.

Mark

AF Branden · Joined: 15 Sep 2009 Posts: 170 Location: United States, WA

I am having problems getting dreamchess to work. When I click on it nothing happens. I am using puppy linux 4.2.1.

System specs: AMD 1.2ghz, 768mb ram, Nvidia Geforce fx5200 128mb

I clicked run in terminal and got this message: sed: can't read /root/.dreamchess/options.xml: no such file or directory
dreamchess error while loading shared libraries: libSDL_image-1.2.so.0: cannot

I seem to be missing a library of some sort but can't find it anywhere. Its not listed as an official .pet or .pup package that I can see.

Also what exactly is the options.xml error you spoke of because I seem to be getting that error?

Sorry I am responding to such an old thread, but this is the only one I can find on the issue.

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3613 Location: around the bend

in this java thread, is how I installed free jin online interactive remote players chess i.e. play against other real people not a computer, into puppy4,2.1

MU · Posted: Tue 15 Sep 2009, 18:22 Post subject:

you can find some libsdl pets here, entering "libsdl":
http://wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html

I think the options.xml is generated after first start, I think it stores user settings. You can ignore that one I think.
Mark

AF Branden · Joined: 15 Sep 2009 Posts: 170 Location: United States, WA

Thanks a million MU! I got it working, after searching I found libSDL_image-1.2.so.0.1.4 at www.puppylinux.ca and downloaded and put it in the lib directory and it didn't work at first, after that I got the brilliant idea to rename it to libSDL_image-1.2.so.0 after I did that it started right up.

hondasid · Joined: 31 Oct 2008 Posts: 259 Location: Perry, OK

I compiled a version for 4.3. It seems to run but I don't have a correct user interface, so here it is for others to test. Let me know yay or nay please.

http://FastFreeFileHosting.com/file/25884/dreamchess-0-2-0-i486-pet.html

PupGeek · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 388

hondasid · Joined: 31 Oct 2008 Posts: 259 Location: Perry, OK

Yeah, that's the error I got. Thought it was my hardware. OK, so FAIL. do not use. i'm going to try and do a pup2pet in a 412 soon, so i'll see if it will install then.

mcalex · Joined: 23 Apr 2006 Posts: 78 Location: Perth, WA

hondasid,
i tried compiling dreamchess but it wouldn't configure because of mxml. I downloaded and installed mxml, and then dreamchess configured a li'l bit further, but still fell over with mxml errors.

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2545 Location: near here

Dreamchess can't set video mode
'failed to set video mode: 640x480'

here the output when run from terminal, I'm using Puppy 5.28

666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 3169 Location: wales

hi darkcity..

you'ld be better off with the lucid one from the ppm http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet_packages-lucid/dreamchess-1.0.pet

possibly needs your graphics driver installed

cheers

666philb

Pelo

Really very nice, loaded from oscar talks repository, for dpup wheezy