Alien 8
Mon, 07/26/2010 - 14:36 | by Curly Brace
Wake up the spaceship's cryonauts before the ship reaches it's destiny, or it will be too late! One of the most famous 8 bit games now back on your computer!
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Note: the official website does not provide Linux version, however, you can successfully compile and run the game using following instructions:
- Get the source, extract it from archive.
- Get these two patches (one, two) and save them as fix1.patch and fix2.patch.
- Apply both patches by running: 'patch < fix1.patch' and 'patch < fix2.patch'.
- Install Allegro _development_ library.
- Install Curl _development_ library.
- Install any additional libraries if required.
- Get FMOD library from http://www.fmod.org/index.php/download
- Extract FMOD archive's api/inc/ directory contents to Alien8 source directory.
- Extract FMOD archive's api/lib/ directory contents to Alien8 source directory.
- Compile with: 'gcc *.c -lcurl -lX11 -lXext `allegro-config --libs` -L. -I. -lfmodex -o Alien8'
- Optionally, remove the source code
- Get Windows game archive
- Copy resources from Windows game archive to working directory
- Use the following script to run the game:
#!/bin/sh LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH ./Alien8
Links:
Homepage | Genre: | Adventure, Arcade, Puzzle |
| Game theme: | Futuristic, Science-fiction |
| Game features: | Singleplayer |
| Game modes: | Campaign |
| Graphic: | 2D |
| License: | Open |
| Payment: | Free |






Comments
Broken links in description
The links to the patches needed to compile this one from source are broken.
please, try this
please, try this http://retrospec.sgn.net/forums/topic/alien-8-10
Re-made the patch
I painstakingly applied the patch and uploaded it to pastebin again. Here it is.