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[head]

Mine on windows froze when I got my first yes/no prompt

Was that my build?  i'm pretty sure i eliminated that bug.

[BoomClap]

and Head, your 1.2build doesn't show the health stat.

btw, I installed VMware, and made a VM with linux installed.
soooo.. how do i compile it in linux again?

[Tilla]

Mine on windows froze when I got my first yes/no prompt

Was that my build?  i'm pretty sure i eliminated that bug.

It was, in the tutorial section, when picking up the items. The latest one posted in this thread.

[BoomClap]

Looking at quinnr's guide on compiling cataclysm in linux, but mine constantly requests some sorta password when I type that sudo thing

[Yoink]

Other than that, it should be pretty playable, just crashy.

Ohwow, I love you! Awesome! Thanks, this game is great.

[beorn080]

Did you try pressing Shift + Y or N? That seems to be a bug.

[Tilla]

Did you try pressing Shift + Y or N? That seems to be a bug.

Maybe I did, not sure. will try again later!

[Tarran]

It's odd how many crashes you are experience mine only starts crashing when using the @ screen too much

It doesn't really crash often, it's just that it crashes at the worse possible time and it's made me paranoid. I don't think it's only limited to the @ screen.

[Yoink]

I've had a few crashes when checking my character screen too, so I've learnt to save before hand. Also, one time when I pressed the move button too rapidly...

[Aqizzar]

I've had a few crashes when checking my character screen too, so I've learnt to save before hand. Also, one time when I pressed the move button too rapidly...

Those seem to be pretty consistent crash causes, yes.  However, I've found that the first time I run the game after startup, it seems to be pretty stable, until it crashes once.  Then it's in wobbly unicycle mode.

Also, steel chains rock.

[head]

Yea, The windows version of ncurses isn't the greatest thing known to man.

[Aqizzar]

I know using any operating except Windows is supposed to be the hip, cool, iconoclastic thing to do, but is it really too much to ask that people making games make them such that they can run natively in Windows, for the 90% of people who are likely to want to play it?  And provide a compiled version as a download?  I don't want to have to learn what "ncurses" is just to play a roguelike that looks really cool.

Also, I dunno if this is just a bug with the version I'm playing with, but the premade characters are all totally broken.  They all have like a half-dozen major disadvantages.  Not a problem, since you can just make a character the normal way, but I thought I'd point that out.

[Tarran]

I know using any operating except Windows is supposed to be the hip, cool, iconoclastic thing to do, but is it really too much to ask that people making games make them such that they can run natively in Windows, for the 90% of people who are likely to want to play it?  And provide a compiled version as a download?  I don't want to have to learn what "ncurses" is just to play a roguelike that looks really cool.

He doesn't have a Windows OS, so he can't test anything on a Windows computer.

[BoomClap]

Oh MY JESUS F***IN CHRIST. YES I AM RAGING. SORRY 'BOUT THAT YOU SMARTIES.

man I feel so dumb. am I god damn retarded like 5 year old kid with 10 pounds of sugar? or are all of you completely used to this compile this compile that shit.
All I want is to PLAY the game without crashing every 3 minutes. and to do that I have to do all the compiling stuff myself!.
It's insane. PuTTY version is literally hit by a shitstorm so it's full of pile of shits and places been looted down to the ground. I do NOT want to play using PuTTY.
Is it THAT wrong to expect a compiled version? regardless of platform? Yes I can install VMware and do all the crazy stuff the game requres.
But getting users to do all the compiling with there own hands causes THIS problem. Some people cannot play.

okay. you know what? I won't expect any Windows compiled Cataclysm.
But please anyone have mercy and release the Linux compiled version.

[dbfuru]

Oh MY JESUS F***IN CHRIST. YES I AM RAGING. SORRY 'BOUT THAT YOU SMARTIES.

man I feel so dumb. am I god damn retarded like 5 year old kid with 10 pounds of sugar? or are all of you completely used to this compile this compile that shit.
All I want is to PLAY the game without crashing every 3 minutes. and to do that I have to do all the compiling stuff myself!.
It's insane. PuTTY version is literally hit by a shitstorm so it's full of pile of shits and places been looted down to the ground. I do NOT want to play using PuTTY.
Is it THAT wrong to expect a compiled version? regardless of platform? Yes I can install VMware and do all the crazy stuff the game requres.
But getting users to do all the compiling with there own hands causes THIS problem. Some people cannot play.

okay. you know what? I won't expect any Windows compiled Cataclysm.
But please anyone have mercy and release the Linux compiled version.

Compiling it isn't that difficult if you just clone the git repository. All you need to do is make sure you have g++ or whatever it is called (g-core?) and then make clean.
I'll type up what I did on my Ubuntu install to get the game working.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Setup Ubuntu in VirtualBox (I have an older version, not too old though can't remember exactly)
In the terminal enter the following

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
sudo apt-get install libncursesw5-dev
sudo apt-get install git-core

Now navigate to the directory you wish to have Cataclysm, mine is just a folder I named Cata.

Type git clone git://github.com/Whales/Cataclysm.git
Then cd to the Cataclysm directory that should have been made.
Type make

You may need the g++ packages, can't remember exactly what they are called though

To get updates, type git pull in the Cataclysm directory, and then make clean to recompile.