VCMI: quick and automated setup

Posted: 2015-06-20 | Author: | Filed under: game | Tags: , , | 1 Comment

To play Heroes III with the VCMI engine, the original game data and unofficial addons have to be copied (manually) to their required locations. It is not a big issue, but can be confusing at first. Read the rest of this entry »

Slackonly: an update

Posted: 2015-05-16 | Author: | Filed under: slackbuilds, system | Tags: , , | 3 Comments

Slackonly is a repository for Slackware packages, compiled from the scripts at SBo. Compilation is done by the excellent slackrepo tool, which ensures the building of clean packages. SlackOnly is not an official repo and is not affiliated with SBo. Read the rest of this entry »

Heroes III

Posted: 2015-05-02 | Author: | Filed under: game, slackbuilds | Tags: , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

I like to keep Heroes III around for the old times’ sake. I have the Complete edition, which unfortunatelly has no Linux version. The Complete edition can be installed and played via WINE, but it is not stable and keeps one of my CPU cores constantly at 100%. I looked for another option and came across the VCMI project, which seems quite promising. Read the rest of this entry »

Dependencies calculator

Posted: 2015-04-25 | Author: | Filed under: slackbuilds, system | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

I came across this interesting discussion at LQ, introducing a new tool called HooRex (a pun for “who requires”). The program scans the SBo repository and determines dependency relations between packages in both directions: Read the rest of this entry »

MSB and SBo common entries

Posted: 2014-07-06 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, slackbuilds, system | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

I decided to make a quick check of the common entries between MATE SlackBuilds (MSB) and SlackBuilds.org (SBo). The following packages provided by MSB 1.8 (as “base” and “extra”) for Slackware 14.1 are available at SBo 14.1 repo: Read the rest of this entry »

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