Any interest in Tribal Trouble 1?

[Jose]

GitHub - sunenielsen/tribaltrouble

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I got it to work under Freebsd 12.1, but I need motivation to work on it further.

 

[shkhln]

Is the client code actually available?

 

[Jose]

Yep, and for the dedicated server too, thought it's kind of hard to run 'cause you need about three different processes, a Mysql database, a Tomcat server, etc. I think I should be able to make the server run out of a single jar using Jetty and H2.

This branch compiles and runs under Eclipse on my Freebsd 12 desktop: https://github.com/Jose123456/tribaltrouble/tree/fbsd-eclipse

You'll have to install eclipse, apache-ant, openal-soft, xrandr, and lwjgl. Packages worked fine for me.

 

[shkhln]

Have you checked the other forks? There a good chance someone already did the cleanup work.

 

[Jose]

I did. These guys added some interesting mods for running larger islands:

GitHub - team-penguin/tribaltrouble: Tribal Trouble with (8) Player support on a Huge Island.

Tribal Trouble with (8) Player support on a Huge Island. - team-penguin/tribaltrouble

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And instructions for running the server, but they still want you to install Mysql, Tomcat, etc. Strangely, I couldn't find anyone else that had extracted the public key from the distribution binary to make the registration work. The Team Penguin guys hacked around it.

Edit: And this guy made a whole bunch of changes to modernize the Java:

GitHub - bondolo/tribaltrouble: Restoration fork of classic Java Real Time Strategy Game Tribal Trouble

Restoration fork of classic Java Real Time Strategy Game Tribal Trouble - bondolo/tribaltrouble

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It's unclear to me that he made any improvements. It would be hard to extract them from his massive commits in any case.

 

[shkhln]

Looks like there are 4 independent forks with substantial number of commits. NIH is strong with this one.

Strangely, I couldn't find anyone else that had extracted the public key from the distribution binary to make the registration work.

I imagine it's easier to just disable the registration code.

 

[Jose]

I imagine it's easier to just disable the registration code.

Judge for yourself:

Added LWJGL 2.9.3 java/native code: http://legacy.lwjgl.org/ · team-penguin/tribaltrouble@9a22a3a

Signed-off-by: Team Penguin <team.penguin50@gmail.com>

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vs.

Make registration work · Jose123456/tribaltrouble@094e5de

The instructions in the readme for registering the game are incomplete for a game built from source. You also need this public key in the root of your classpath.

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[shkhln]

…vs https://github.com/team-penguin/tribaltrouble/pull/1

 

[Jose]

…vs https://github.com/team-penguin/tribaltrouble/pull/1

Nice! Then you could remove the whole RegistrationClient class too.

 

[shkhln]

Well, not me. I'm just reading PRs.