How to install Vulture's Eye in Ubuntu 10.10

UPDATE:  This should work also for Ubuntu 11.04. Please let me know if it doesn't.

Here's a guide to installing and playing nethack with isometric tiles.

1. Download the latest source code here. It is a 7z compressed archive.

2. Open a terminal and install the 7-zip utilities

$ sudo apt-get install p7zip

3. Install the dpkg-dev package.  This is needed to build a .deb package from the vulture's eye source code that you have downloaded earlier.  Just answer "Y" when prompted.

3. Install other essential packages for building this game.  Expect a download of 18Mb.

$ sudo apt-get install debhelper libsdl1.2-dev libncurses5-dev bison flex libpng12-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev

4. Extract the game source code and put in your home directory, i.e. /home/valman

5. Go to the source directory and run the patch provided by the game developers.

$ patch -Np1 -i dist/linux/debian/debian.patch

6. Now, still in the game source directory, let's build the package!  Expect to wait for a few minutes while your computer compiles the C++ code.

$ sudo dpkg-buildpackage

7. Now, go to your main downloads directory where you saved the file downloaded in Step 1.  You should see a listing of .deb packages there.

8. Install the game data package

$ sudo gdebi vultures-data_2.1.90-1_all.deb

9. Install the game package (same as above)

$ sudo gdebi vultureseye_2.1.90-1_i386.deb

10. Play the game! It's the Applications > Games > Vulture's Eye

Have fun!!


//ValMan

The Mother of All Games

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A friend asked me to name some addictive games I know. Aside from XCOM of course, the next game that comes to my mind is Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games.  Developed by Wendell Hicken using C++ and Turbo Assembler, you control your tank to wipe out all other tanks from the face of the earth by adjusting two levers: Power and Angle.

You earn money through the levels to equip your tank with nasty missiles, warheads, and funny items such as parachute.  The fun part is changing the text files TALK1.CFG TALK2.CFG.  The files serve as the tanks' shoutouts before an attack, and their dying words before disintegrating.

The game can still be downloaded here. You need a DOS emulator to play because the game was designed for slower machines of yesteryears.

It brings good memories of the late 90s when college nights in the dormitory were long and stress-free.

UPDATE

A modern port was released and named Scorched3D.  You can visit the official site here.  Sorry, I haven't tested it yet.