Magnetic Scrolls Interpreter on RPi
Magnetic Scrolls adventure games can be played on a variety of platforms using the
Magnetic interpreter. Here's how I got it running on the RPi.
Prerequisites
We need the
Magnetic source from
here. The GTK version seems like the best to run under LXDE, so we also need the GTK 2.0 development files.
$ sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
Building
Create a directory called
Magnetic and unzip the source into it.
$ mkdir Magnetic
$ cd Magnetic
$ unzip ~/Downloads/Magnetic23Src.zip
There were a couple of tweaks necessary to get it to build. Firstly, there's a typo in
Gtk/main.c at the end of line 307.
...(type8s *) hints_filename), NULL)
Should be:
...(type8s *) hints_filename, NULL))
I also edited the Makefile as I don't have the sound libraries installed. It now reads:
# SOUND_SYSTEM = SMPEG
# SOUND_SYSTEM = SDL_MIXER
# SOUND_SYSTEM = XMMS
SOUND_SYSTEM = NONE
Then you just need to build the Gtk directory.
$ cd Gtk
$ make
If everything works you should have a binary called
gtkmagnetic.
Running
After building, just run:
$ gtkmagnetic&
The games can all be downloaded
here. Just unzip them somewhere and load them via the GUI.
