Alien 8

Release
Version: 
1.0
Released: 
4 June 2008

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


Genre:Adventure, Arcade, Puzzle
Game theme:Futuristic, Science-fiction
Game features:Singleplayer
Game modes:Campaign
Graphic:2D
License:Open
Payment:Free

Comments

h3xx's picture

Broken links in description

The links to the patches needed to compile this one from source are broken.

sixsixfive's picture

please, try this

h3xx's picture

Re-made the patch

I painstakingly applied the patch and uploaded it to pastebin again. Here it is.

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