Project: Starfighter,

Being bored, I just looked through Wikipedia’s list of opens source games. A particular one caught my eye, Project: Starfighter. According to reviews it would be nice, and so I downloaded the source code. It compiled nicely, without any problems. SDL, SDL_image and SDL_mixer were required, but I happened to already have those packages.

I tried to run the binary that the makefile created, but it didn’t work:

[tim@adamant starfighter-1.1]$ ./starfighter
Couldn’t access the Project: Starfighter data file!
Cleaning Up…
Freeing Graphics
Freeing Background
Freeing Sounds
Resetting Lists
Freeing Font
Removing Mod
Closing Audio
Done Cleaning Up…
Thank You for playing Starfighter
[tim@adamant starfighter-1.1]$ ./starfighter

A googling for the phrase “Couldn’t access the Project: Starfighter data file!” was fruitless, and so I began debugging the source code, which was very neatly written. First, find were the error message string is. The source code is in the code/ sub-directory, so that’s where to search.


[tim@adamant]$ grep -R access code/
code/unpack.cpp: printf(”Couldn’t access the Project: Starfighter data file!\n”);
code/unpack.cpp: printf(”Couldn’t access the Project: Starfighter data file!\n”);
code/graphics.cpp: /* Lock the screen for direct access to the pixels */


After Google, grep is your best friend. In unpack.cpp, this error message is given when the filename denoted by the constant PACKLOCATION can’t be opened. I added a line to the code that printed the value of PACKLOCATION upon failing to read it, recompiled the source code and ran the game again.

[tim@adamant starfighter-1.1]$ ./starfighter
Couldn’t access the Project: Starfighter data file!!!
/usr/share/games/parallelrealities/starfighter.pak

I checked manually, and Project: Starfighter was right: that file didn’t even exist. However, there was a file called starfighter.pak in the main directory. I suppose the makefile just failed to copy it to its right location, and so I did it manually.

[tim@adamant starfighter-1.1]$ mkdir /usr/share/games/parallelrealities
[tim@adamant starfighter-1.1]$ cp starfighter.pak /usr/share/games/parallelrealities/starfighter.pak

After this, the game started up flawlessly. I’ll try to play it now.marie 14k teena mp31723 rocket mp3 error progood 20 mp3 reasonsmp3 medley 2112ninja mp3 21emon27468 22612 30333 24040 mp3 33394mp3 340ml zipable 504 mp3 dvd Mapanal porn stripperporn trailers analclips anal pornoportal anal sex pornopornpasswords analporn anal poundingcreampies anal porn sexsex anal stars porn Maphowto lg ringtonesringtones lg4650polyphonic your ringtones make ownmaking ringtones mp3martin luther jr and ringtone kingmassari ringtonesringtones mep freebuble free ringtones michael Mapcredit estate bad loans realus bad credit remortgage loannews payday loan industry for badbaldwin park loan officer californiahome loan savings rates bangor bankbank home loan ratebank operations loan informationloans california capital bank Map

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