Magnetic Scrolls Interpreter on RPiMagnetic Scrolls adventure games can be played on a variety of platforms using the Magnetic interpreter. Here's how I got it running on the RPi.
PrerequisitesWe need the Magnetic source from here. The GTK version seems like the best to run under LXDE, so we also need the GTK 2.0 development files.
$ sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
BuildingCreate a directory called Magnetic and unzip the source into it.
$ mkdir Magnetic $ cd Magnetic $ unzip ~/Downloads/Magnetic23Src.zipThere were a couple of tweaks necessary to get it to build. Firstly, there's a typo in Gtk/main.c at the end of line 307.
...(type8s *) hints_filename), NULL)Should be:
...(type8s *) hints_filename, NULL))I also edited the Makefile as I don't have the sound libraries installed. It now reads:
# SOUND_SYSTEM = SMPEG # SOUND_SYSTEM = SDL_MIXER # SOUND_SYSTEM = XMMS SOUND_SYSTEM = NONEThen you just need to build the Gtk directory.
$ cd Gtk $ makeIf everything works you should have a binary called gtkmagnetic.
RunningAfter building, just run:
$ gtkmagnetic&The games can all be downloaded here. Just unzip them somewhere and load them via the GUI.