Marathon Aleph One

[matsur]

Hi all,

I've just packaged Marathon Aleph One (http://source.bungie.org/) as an amd64 deb. Marathon is an old, (deep!) storyline driven FPS by Bungie, the creators of Halo. Aleph One is a GPL'ed rewrite of the original engine. You can find the deb at http://www.columbia.edu/~rxl2101/alephone_20050118-1_amd64.deb . The gameplay files are not included for license reasons, but are available free of charge here: http://trilogyrelease.bungie.org/ . After downloading the set of files ("Images", "Map", "Shapes", "Sounds") you want, place them in /usr/local/share/AlephOne/ and you should be good to go.

matsur

[gyffes]

Is there a version of this for x86 machines running Dapper?

I know where the files are @Sourceforge but I'm an english major; words like COMPILE, etc, freak me out...

help!?

[hikaricore]

Is there a version of this for x86 machines running Dapper?

I know where the files are @Sourceforge but I'm an english major; words like COMPILE, etc, freak me out...

help!?

Well you may be in luck here. There is an RPM (redhat package) availible for this software, so the easiest thing to do is to convert it. For this you will need to download "alien" with apt-get and then convert your downloaded package with alien.

So open up a terminal (I don't care how scared you are.):

sudo aptitude install alien
^this should do the trick

After aptitude has finished installing the required packages we'll download the RPM package we need from easynews's sourceforge mirror:

wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/marathon/AlephOne-20060701-1.i386.rpm

Easy enough lets move on:

sudo alien AlephOne-20060701-1.i386.rpm

Once this is complete you should be able to install it using:

sudo dpkg -i alephone_20060701-2_i386.deb
^this name is automaticly generated by alien and will vary to that of the original file.


[hikaricore@devistate:/media/devistate (803.5 Mb)]$ sudo alien AlephOne-20060701-1.i386.rpm
alephone_20060701-2_i386.deb generated

Once this is complete you should be able to type..

alephone

...to start the game.

We hit a slight snag here however as matsur mentioned you will still need to manually install the maps, sounds, and other data files.

FATAL: Please be sure the files 'Map', 'Shapes', 'Images' and 'Sounds' are correctly installed and try again. (error -1)

Also with this version all data files need to goto: /usr/share/AlephOne/
Instead of the directory listed in the original post.

You will need either:

trilogyrelease.bungie.org/files/marathon2.zip

or

trilogyrelease.bungie.org/files/infinity.zip

To play the game. I personally couldn't figure out how to walk forwards.... so you may want to mess with the controls before you drive yourself insane.

Enjoy.

[shadowh511]

sam@sam-laptop:~/Desktop/AlephOne-20071103$ alephone
alephone: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL_net-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Help plz

[Artificial Intelligence]

Install libsdl-net1.2

[joninkrakow]

This is an old thread, but I just discovered how to get AlephOne to work in Hardy, so wanted to share it, in case anybody else is searching for an answer.

I downloaded the rpm and used alien to create a deb which installed fine. However, after that, you need to install all the sdl stuff. This is the command I used, after making sure that universe is enabled in the Add/Remove... application:

sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian-all


That should install everything and get you running. I certainly worked for me, and now I can go smash some phfor. ;-)

[thetallestpaul]

I got pretty far through installing but I'm not sure exactly what files need to go into usr/share/AlephOne

I copied images shapes sounds fonts and map but it still seems to have trouble.. I am getting:

FATAL: Please be sure the files: 'Map', 'Shapes', 'Images' and 'Sounds' are correctly installed and try again. (error -1)

Due to permissions on AlephOne being for root only i was manually moving them from the marathon infinity folder on my desktop (downloaded from AlephOne's website) to the AlephOne folder using sudo. Is there a better way? / What should I copy into the AlephOne folder? (as these are clearly not quite the right files)

[joninkrakow]

I got pretty far through installing but I'm not sure exactly what files need to go into usr/share/AlephOne

I copied images shapes sounds fonts and map but it still seems to have trouble.. I am getting:

FATAL: Please be sure the files: 'Map', 'Shapes', 'Images' and 'Sounds' are correctly installed and try again. (error -1)

Due to permissions on AlephOne being for root only i was manually moving them from the marathon infinity folder on my desktop (downloaded from AlephOne's website) to the AlephOne folder using sudo. Is there a better way? / What should I copy into the AlephOne folder? (as these are clearly not quite the right files)

Unfortunately, my install of AlephONe got hosed, so I can't check it in person, but I think you need to copy the whole folder to the AlephOne folder. Make sure it's a simple game, and then, IIRC, you need to simply call that folder from the command line "alephone /usr/shar/AlephOne/infinity" BTW, if you do a gsudo or sudo nautilus command, you can do all this within the gui. It might work better. If nobody else pipes up, I will try installing it again, and see what I had to do. Sorry I can't help more.

-Jon

[thetallestpaul]

I am now running alephone successfully by using the alephone command with the entire contents of infinity in that folder. I would like to know how to use the ALEPHONE_DATA environment to use the infinity folder itself but for now i am very satisfied. thanks for your help

[Xcursion666]

Well you may be in luck here. There is an RPM (redhat package) availible for this software, so the easiest thing to do is to convert it. For this you will need to download "alien" with apt-get and then convert your downloaded package with alien.

So open up a terminal (I don't care how scared you are.):

sudo aptitude install alien^this should do the trick

After aptitude has finished installing the required packages we'll download the RPM package we need from easynews's sourceforge mirror:

wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/marathon/AlephOne-20060701-1.i386.rpmEasy enough lets move on:

sudo alien AlephOne-20060701-1.i386.rpmOnce this is complete you should be able to install it using:

sudo dpkg -i alephone_20060701-2_i386.deb^this name is automaticly generated by alien and will vary to that of the original file.



Once this is complete you should be able to type..

alephone...to start the game.

We hit a slight snag here however as matsur mentioned you will still need to manually install the maps, sounds, and other data files.



Also with this version all data files need to goto: /usr/share/AlephOne/
Instead of the directory listed in the original post.

You will need either:

trilogyrelease.bungie.org/files/marathon2.zip

or

trilogyrelease.bungie.org/files/infinity.zip

To play the game. I personally couldn't figure out how to walk forwards.... so you may want to mess with the controls before you drive yourself insane.

Enjoy.
thanks for the help i used alephone to play rubicon x awesome game a continuation of the marathon series you can download the data files here for free
http://www.marathonrubicon.com/

:guitar: