This is a first beta of the Linux client for Devastation.
To use:
1) Get the retail CD.
2) Install it on Windows (yuck!)
3) Patch the game to version 381.
4) Copy the installed game to your Linux or FreeBSD-with-Linux-emulation box.
5) Unpack this archive in the game's System directory.
6) Run "echo XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX > cdkey" in the game's System
directory, where all those Xs are your valid CD key. CASE IS IMPORTANT.
THE DASHES ARE IMPORTANT.
7) Run "./devastation-bin" from the game's System directory.
Hopefully we'll have an installer for this that doesn't require Windows
before the end of the beta.
Please report bugs to https://bugzilla.icculus.org/
Discussion goes to the mailing list: blank email to
devastation-subscribe@icculus.org to get on the list. You must be
subscribed to post to the list.
List archives: http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-cgi?32
If you just want to host a server and not actually play the game, there is
a separate dedicated server available, which does not need the game discs.
That is not this package. Check http://www.devastationgame.com/ for
download details (there is a separate server admin mailing list, too).
Please do not send bug reports to my inbox. Use bugzilla.
--ryan.
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