Puppyt wrote:Delayed in getting feedback to you sc0ttman - pointy end of term is approaching fast...
Damn those deadliines!
Thanks for all your work here - really appreciate the Go programmes you've included in your repository - Akita is probably going to serve as a great babysitter when I have to use the laptop to occupy the kids (and the kids-at-heart).
Haha, good.. Must be an old laptop, right? Or Akita wouldn't work... Is it one with a Radeon GPU? Have you tested the ATI stuff in the repo?
I can't seem to get XArchon working properly though - I can't select pieces to move. I note that it doesn't have a menu listing - but again, you probably have stated this in an earlier post and I've missed it..Have you had better luck running XArchon, but odds-on it's just me...
Nope, it's not just you, I have it on good authority the package works, and the game is famous, but I never heard of it and couldn't move any pieces in the game!!
lol
I haven't got any suggestions for other games at the moment, doing some sideways dredging in old DOS classics for the kids in an older laptop with only 48Mb Ram max, and without a joystick port
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I'm still hunting around the "Linux Game Tome" website - searching all the SDL games, which do NOT require OpenGL... Seems to be a good way to find small, but good games.. I like 'pipepanic', in the Akita repo (highscore 3410
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On page 298-ish of ttuuxx's 214X thread I posted a link to a java game I'm quite fond of (Lords of Midnight) - I've collected other versions from the IceMark fanbase, but they're mostly for Win environments.
That reminds me, I will get a Java pet into the repo as well... Will search for the game... Also FreeCol uses Java, I think, and that's a good game.
Do you have a suitable icon suggestion for opening emel2fm from wbar? Doesn't seem to be provided in Akita at the moment.
I always just go with something in /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/, or use "Google Images", limited to 128x128, if I want something specific..
Still 'no go' with Frisbee - but the other wi-fi managers lock'n'load without any problem. I don't think that it's the wpa_supplicant file I cut'n'pasted across from PolarPup003, as I can 'enable' Frisbee wireless, review and modify profiles etc but no luck on it actually selecting and displaying a IP address for wlan0. Same sort of behaviour happens with Exprimo 5x9, but I haven't made detailed notes.
I'm still (pointlessly) hoping someone like rerwin or tempestuous takes a look at Akita and remove any problems with drivers, udev, networking, hotplugging, etc... It's all beyond me at the moment...
Really appreciate all the bookmarks etc you've included with FireDog3.6. However I've run into a pretty perennial problem ... how do I make file associations (within mozilla) so that Rox is enabled to launch "download location" or a recently downloaded pet?
I know - it's not in the menus!! But not my fault, just was not in that Firefox version that FireDog is based on... Anyway... You must right click on a saved file, in the "Downloads" tab, and do it from there.... Akita Beta4 will have a script called 'roxuri', and I will update the FireDog package to use it automatically.. So clicking on things in the downloads tab will work fine.. Soon as I figure out how to add that setting to a .pet..
(RoxURI is here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 264#364264)
SoftMaker2008 is working like a dream ... apart from Presentations - which has an opening hiccup with running as user 'root' I haven't solved yet -everything opens super-fast in Akita
Glad it's working for you, nice and fast!!
I tried Slacko all day yesterday, Akita is (generally) faster on my PC...
I can add a wrapper script to the presentation thing, so that it runs as spot, I think... Had to do that with FreeCiv as well...
Something like:
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su spot
exec /usr/bin/presentation_thing
exit 0
Never used it, will check it out...
UPDATE: hmmmm could you please give me a hint on how I can get VLC to load Flash-chess and other swf's ?
I didn't know it could! Can it do that? Because I have added 'gFlashPlayer' to the Flash Installer (Menu>Internet), which plays most of them fine...
Installed the latest python dev from the W5 repository in an effort to get pdfshuffle working, but no dice just yet.
Maybe try the python pets in the Akita repo? Might work better...
And I can get XArchon working too after a false start - I used to whup it's Arch back when I had it on an ol' Apple II clone - but it seems the whupping is now firmly from the other's foot.
How do I play it?? I might write a very simple popup dialog with controls before it loads....