HOWTO: Old Loki Games in Dapper..SC3U, HMM3, Civ CTP..and more!

**Footissimo** · June 5th, 2006

Preamble

Old Loki games, some of which are still sold by Tuxgames are becoming more and more difficult to just install. Hopefully this HOWTO will help you install Heroes of Might and Magic 3, Heavy Gear 2, Heretic 2, Simcity 3000 Unlimited, Civilization: Call To Power etc (see below). Some of the stuff may well apply to other Loki games...I just don't know. I'm not a technical person - I just got the information from this site, Linux Questions, Google searches and a bit of guesswork. These games installed on Ubuntu Dapper, 32bit with a Nvidia (5700VE) card..don't know about other set-ups, if you want me to try then send me a computer :P

For this HOWTO, I'll assume you are installing systemwide in /usr/local/games and that you'll fiddle with temporary patches and what not in the user home.

IMPORTANT:With all the loki installers, don't press 'play' when the installer has finished if you have installed as root (i.e. sudo) as that will play the game as root and the preferences directory (i.e. '.loki') will have root permissions. Just press exit, then use the command or menu item instead.
EVEN MORE IMPORTANT: the 'sunsite' mirror used for the various patches and updates in these guides is now deaded, so you'll have to use

Code:

ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org/lokigames

instead

Games Covered:

Civilization: Call To Power
Heavy Gear 2
Heretic 2
Sim City 3000 Unlimited
Heroes of Might and Magic 3
Railroad Tycoon 2

Sim City 3000 Unlimited

Open a terminal window (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). Go to wherever the CD is mounted:

Code:

cd /media/cdrom0

Start the installer, for me, I checked all the options:

Code:

sudo sh setup.sh

Download the patch:

Code:

cd ~/

Code:

wget ftp://sunsite.dk/mirrors/lokigames/updates/sc3u/sc3u-2.0a-x86.run

Run the patch (plus --keep, not sure why, but it seems to solve a usagetrap error):

Code:

sudo sh sc3u-2.0a-x86.run --keep

Run the game, but assume an older kernel version:

Code:

LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.26 /usr/local/bin/sc3u

Fingers crossed, it should work!

Getting it to work as a menu item is another pain! There should be a item under 'Games' in Alacarte, but it won't work, so we make a little script to run the program:

Code:

gedit

Add the following:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/local/games/SC3U
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.26 /usr/local/bin/sc3u

Save as something obvious, like 'sc3ulaunch' or similar, then make it executable and move it to the right directory:

Code:

chmod +x sc3ulaunch

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sudo mv sc3ulaunch /usr/local/bin

You can now change the menu entry in Alacarte to 'sc3ulaunch' and it should work!

Get rid of the faff:

Code:

cd ~/ (or wherever you downloaded the patches to)

Code:

rm sc3u-2.0a-x86.run

Code:

sudo rm -rf sc3u-2.0a-x86

Civilization: Call To Power

Civ is relatively painless, just need the correct patch.

Open a terminal window (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). Go to wherever the CD is mounted:

Code:

cd /media/cdrom0

Start the installer (create the symlink in /usr/local/bin, when it asks):

Code:

sudo sh install

The game will work, but with issues, soooo download the patch:

Code:

cd ~/

Code:

wget ftp://sunsite.dk/mirrors/lokigames/updates/civctp/civctp-1.2a-english-unified-x86.run

There are a variety of different patches, but it's the english-unified that seems to work.

Run the civctp patch:

Code:

sudo sh civctp-1.2a-x86.run

When done, remove the faff:

Code:

rm civctp-1.2a-english-unified-x86.run

There is an entry in Alacarte, but it didn't seem to show up (for me), so I toggled the visibility off and then on again and that seemed to sort it (weird!)

Heroes of Might and Magic 3

Open a terminal window (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). Go to wherever the CD is mounted:

Code:

cd /media/cdrom0

Start the installer (create the symlink in /usr/local/bin, when it asks):

Code:

sudo sh setup.sh

You can run the game, though (for me) without the patch it doesn't run fullscreen (amongst other issues), so download the patch:

Code:

cd ~/

Code:

wget ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/os/linux/loki/updates/heroes3/heroes3-1.3.1a-unified-x86.run

The patch will segfault if you try to run it. Run it with the 'keep' option (it will still segfault, but bear with me!):

Code:

sh heroes3-1.3.1a-unified-x86.run --keep

We need to patch the patch (*sigh*), go to the offending directory and remove the dodgy file:

Code:

cd heroes3-1.3.1a-unified-x86/bin/Linux/x86/

Code:

rm loki_patch

Download the new loki_patch and make it executable:

Code:

wget http://www.step-n-up.com/downloads/loki_patch

Code:

chmod +x loki_patch

Go back a few directories and run the update (now as root):

Code:

cd ../../../

Code:

sudo sh update.sh

Hopefully that should now work, I found no problems with the menu item - use that or type:

Code:

heroes3

To remove the faff:

Code:

cd ~/

Code:

sudo rm -rf heroes3-1.3.1a-unified-x86

Code:

rm heroes3-1.3.1a-unified-x86.run

Heretic 2

Open a terminal window (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). Go to wherever the CD is mounted:

Code:

cd /media/cdrom0

Start the installer (create the symlink in /usr/local/bin, when it asks):

Code:

sudo sh setup.sh

A load of errors will probably appear in the terminal window - can't find the bin/x86/heretic file, several directories etc etc. These will be fixed after install...just let it carry on for now.

Lets move that file manually. Remember to change 'cdrom0' to whatever your cdrom directory is called:

Code:

sudo cp /media/cdrom0/bin/x86/glibc-2.1/heretic2 /usr/local/games/heretic2/

Create a symbolic link from the heretic2 file to the /usr/local/bin directory, so running Heretic is easier:

Code:

sudo ln  -s  /usr/local/games/heretic2/heretic2 /usr/local/bin

To get the program to run, we also need the two patches:

Code:

cd ~/

Code:

wget ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/os/linux/loki/updates/heretic2/heretic2-1.06b-unified-x86.run

Code:

wget ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/os/linux/loki/updates/heretic2/heretic2-1.06c-unified-x86.run

Running the patches will cause a segfault, sooo time to patch the patches:

Code:

sh heretic2-1.06b-unified-x86.run --keep

This will still cause a segfault, but no worries, just change directories:

Code:

cd heretic2-1.06b-unified-x86/bin/Linux/x86/

Delete the borked loki_patch and download the newer one:

Code:

rm loki_patch

Code:

wget http://www.step-n-up.com/downloads/loki_patch

Change the permissions:

Code:

chmod +x loki_patch

Back up a few directories and run the update:

Code:

cd ../../../

Code:

sudo sh update.sh

You need to do exactly the same for the 1.06c patch, summarised:

Code:

cd ~/

Code:

sh heretic2-1.06c-unified-x86.run --keep

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cd heretic2-1.06c-unified-x86/bin/Linux/x86/

Code:

rm loki_patch

Code:

wget http://www.step-n-up.com/downloads/loki_patch

Code:

chmod +x loki_patch

Code:

cd ../../../

Code:

sudo sh update.sh

You can now play the game by typing:

Code:

heretic2

To create a menu item, just load Alacarte and use the command 'heretic2'. The icon is messed up - if you want a better one then:

Code:

wget http://aslan.homelinux.com/dana/icons/games/heretic2.png

Code:

sudo mv heretic2.png /usr/share/pixmaps/

There should now be a slightly better Heretic icon in your default icon directory :)

Lastly, clean up the faff:

Code:

cd ~/

Code:

sudo rm -rf heretic2-1.06b-unified-x86

Code:

sudo rm -rf heretic2-1.06b-unified-x86

Code:

rm heretic2-1.06b-unified-x86.run

Code:

rm heretic2-1.06c-unified-x86.run

Heavy Gear 2 HOWTO will be added onto this later :)

**Footissimo** · June 7th, 2006

Heavy Gear II

This is a complete pain, but after a bit of googling and guesswork, it seems to work using OpenGL and systemwide.

Open a terminal window and install the freetype 2 - this seems to work for the old freetype package needed for the game:

Code:

sudo apt-get install freetype2

Go to whereever the cdrom is mounted (cdrom0 for me) and install:

Code:

cd /media/cdrom0

Code:

sudo sh setup.sh

I chose to just install the base, movies and the 'recommended' libararies to the default /usr/local/games/hg2 directory. After installing you can try the game, but it'll probably through up some errors as seen on this thread. Get the patch:

Code:

cd ~/

Code:

wget ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/os/linux/loki/updates/hg2/hg2-1.0b-unified-x86.run

Run that patch with the keep option:

Code:

sudo sh hg2-1.0b-unified-x86.run --keep

Again, running the game will throw up similar errors. We need to modify the hg2 script. Assume a default install:

Code:

 sudo gedit /usr/local/games/hg2/hg2

A text editor window should pop up. Look out for this bit of the script:

Code:

fullpath="`ls -l "$fullpath" | awk '{print $11}'`"

Change that $11 to $10. Save the modified script.

You should now be able to play the game:

Code:

hg2

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to make an menu item. It's fairly straightforward, just make a new entry in Alacarte Menu Editor and use the command 'hg2'. If you need a better icon:

Code:

wget http://aslan.homelinux.com/dana/icons/games/hg2.png

Code:

sudo mv hg2.png /usr/share/pixmaps

This will put a slightly better HG2 icon in the default icon directory.

To remove the faff:

Code:

cd ~/

Code:

rm hg2-1.0b-unified-x86.run

Code:

sudo rm -rf hg2-1.0b-unified-x86

Hopefully that'll work

Railroad Tycoon 2

Much the same as Civ:CTP, this is an easy one to install, so I'll just summarise the instructions:

Code:

cd /media/cdrom0 (or whereever your CDRom is mounted)
sudo sh setup.sh
cd ~/
wget ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/os/linux/loki/updates/rt2/rt2-1.54c-unified-x86.run (download patch)
sudo sh rt2-1.54c-unified-x86.run --keep

Type 'rt2' to run. A menu item appeared for me, but only after logging in and out of GNOME. If one doesn't appear then just use Alacarte with the command 'rt2' - an icon will also be in /usr/local/games/RT2, though its not the best (working on that!)

To remove the faff:

Code:

cd ~/
rm rt2-1.54c-unified-x86.run
sudo rm -rf t2-1.54c-unified-x86

**nukedog** · June 8th, 2006

Damn!
So close, got the same old error about not being able to access /home/nukedog/.loki/
So I went to the terminal and used "sudo hg2"
to launch, and got all the way to launching a mission, wich never started, crashed and gave me:

hg2: FATAL: could not initialize OpenGL Library 'libGL.so.1'

It's no fun being a newb...

Video card is an Nvidia NV20 GEforce 3 if that matters.

**Footissimo** · June 8th, 2006

Hmm..sounds like your permissions on the .loki directory (its the hidden directory that saves preferences, save games etc as user) are wrong. If you just delete the .loki directory then it will remake it when you try again:

If HG2 is the only loki game installed then you can safely do:

Code:

cd ~/
sudo rm -rf .loki

to delete the loki folder - it will be reinstalled when you start the game again (as user)

You should be able to run it as user now (i.e. just hg2)

The other problem - is direct rendering enabled? If you're unsure then:

Code:

glxinfo | grep direct

If no then you need to get your graphics drivers sorted (there are tons of threads on that..and stuff in the wiki)

Also, did you make sure the box was pressed to install the GL Drivers (after which is said 'Strongly Recommended' or something like that when installing?

If the answer is yes to both of them, then I'd imagine that you haven't got a necessary library installed - look in Synaptic (System->Admin->Synaptic Package Manager) for possible culprits - there is a libgl1 package, though it would be difficult NOT to have that installed

Best I can do atm - not very technical myself!

**nukedog** · June 8th, 2006

I got:

direct rendering: No
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

So you are right.
I'll work on my drivers when I get home from work.
Thank you for all your help.

**Footissimo** · June 8th, 2006

Bear with it, it all becomes a lot easier

There's a good HOWTO, on Nvidia drivers in the Wiki here, if you have one.

**nukedog** · June 9th, 2006

God I'm dumb.
I got my computer so screwed up, It wouldn't even boot!
I'm back from re-installing, and I'm startin' again!

**nukedog** · June 9th, 2006

I got it all back togeather, followed your instructions, and now have the drivers working, but get:

error while loading shared libraries: libgthread-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

**ildfroe** · June 29th, 2006

I can't get simcity to work

I can see the intro movie, but after that I just get a black screen with the mouse pointer and some music.
Any help???

This is the output:

Code:

$LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.26 /usr/local/bin/sc3uCreating sc3u preferences directory: /home/claus/.loki/sc3u
fcntl: Operation not permitted
fcntl: Operation not permitted
MESSAGE:

BUG! (Segmentation Fault)  Going down hard...
SimCity 3000 Unlimited 2.0.955a
Built with glibc-2.1 on x86
Stack dump:
{
        0xffffe420
        0xb6eb5c52
        0xb79e5342
        0xb77587e0
        0x814a685
        0x8358123
        0x8358da0
        0x8359253
        0x8153291
        0xb7d5c31f
        0x8144ca1
}
Please send a full bug report,
along with the contents of autosave to: support@lokigames.com
Unable to execute loki_qagent - exiting

**Footissimo** · June 29th, 2006

Could you tell me which version of Ubuntu and which video card..and if direct rendering is working:

Code:

glxinfo | grep direct

This old thread suggests trying different kernel versions. You could try running it with:

Code:

LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 /usr/local/bin/sc3u
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 /usr/local/bin/sc3u

etc

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