Install

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Installation depends highly on your operating system. After downloading the appropriate file, continue to the installation section for your operating system.

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Download

You may choose to download the latest release or a recent svn-snapshot. If you're unsure what to choose, you probably want to download the latest release.

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Download latest Release

Easy usable Auto-Installer for Mac and Windows avail, for Linux see Linux!

Depending on your OS choose:

  • Windows: ".exe"
  • MacOSX: ".dmg"
  • Linux/Unix: ".tar.gz"
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Download nightly builds

Windows only, may be unstable, has auto-installer

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Download Source from SVN

If you download the sourcecode you have to build the binaries yourself. For a short tutorial on how to check out using SVN and build the binaries see Howto_Linux_SVN, Howto_Mac_SVN and Howto_Windows_SVN.

Of course you can also download the source of the latest release

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Installation

Feel free to send an email to team<at>blinkensisters.org if any problems occur during your install-progress!

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Windows

Run the downloaded setup.exe file (name may differ in various versions). After accepting the license, BlinkenSisters will install automatically.

If installation does not succeed, you most likely don't have required privileges to install a software. Please contact you local system administrator about this issue.

If you get an error like CreateProcess failed; code 14001, then you most likely don't have the .Net Framework Version 2.0 installed. Try to download it from here or through Windows Update, install it and try to run BlinkenSisters again. Btw, you should always have installed the latest versions of all security updates, Service packs and frameworks anyway... (Note: This problem shouldn't happen with version 0.5 or above. If it does, contact us!)

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MacOSX

Safari should have opened the disk image after downloading automatically. Run the included Package-Installer (you will need Admin privileges due to installation of the required SDL-Frameworks).

After installation, you'll find a new BlinkenSisters folder in your Applications folder.

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Linux / Unix

As there are so many different Linux and Unix versions out there, we don't distribute binaries anymore (although there are some packages for some distris - see also Maintainers). We can also describe only a general way of building BlinkenSisters on unix, as details may vary on your distribution:

Make sure you have all required packages (depending on your distribution, you may also have to install seperate development packages):

  • SDL
  • SDL_mixer
  • SDL_image
  • SDL_net
  • SDL_ttf
  • libogg
  • libvorbis

You can use the source of the latest release or follow the instructions how to use the svn-repository. If you choose to compile from the latest release continue like this:

Unpack the tarball (name varies, depending on version): 

tar xvzf LostPixels_*.tar.gz

Change to the software directory and start the build: 

cd lostpixels/game/software/cmake-build
cmake ..
make

Change to root-user and install the software: 

su
make install

After that, you can start the program with: 

LostPixels


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CommandLine-Parameters

Usage: LostPixels [Options]

  • -f, --fullscreen - Use Fullscreen (default)
  • -w, --windowed - Use windowed mode
  • -s, --disable-sound - Disable sound
  • -v, --version - Print version information and exit
  • -h, --help - Command-line help
  • -p, --proxyurl - URL of the HTTP Proxy (--proxyurl=http://proxy.example.com:port or -p=http://proxy.example.com:port)
  • -u - (re)create basedata.bmf, even if .lostpixels already exists
  • -b, --blpstream - Adress/Port for blpstream (--blpstream=192.168.0.1:2323 or -b=192.168.0.1:2323)
  • -m, --mcufstream - Adress/Port for mcufstream (--mcufstream=192.168.0.1:2323 or -m=192.168.0.1:2323)
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