DOWNLOAD FREEDROID:

Downloading from Sourceforge
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Just click the link above for the most recent version of FreedroidRPG for Linux.
For other downloads please use the download page here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54521

Which files do you need?
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If you want to play Freedroid Classic under Windows, you will need the latest classic Windows package, usually named something like freedroid-1.0.2-win32.zip. In addition to this package, you will also need the SDL library ".dll" files, which are in the package SDL_libs-win32.zip.

If you want to play FreedroidRPG under Windows, you will need the latest FreedroidRPG Windows package, usually named something like freedroidrpg-0.10.2-win32.zip. This is an archive, that will provide everything you need for the game.

If you are a Linux user, you are bright enough to figure everything out anyway, like which package you want for your system and the like, and I need not explain anything to you anyway.

GET IT FROM THE SVN:

You can also get the lastest developer version from our SVN repository.
This version sometimes fails to build and can be unstable, but it often contain new features.
You will need a SVN client to be able to download the developer version.

Here is how you can do it using the command line client:

FreedroidRPG:
svn co https://freedroid.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/freedroid freedroid

COMPILE & INSTALL:

NOTE: If you're using the Windows version of either Freedroid Classic or Freedroid RPG, there is no need to compile anything since these packages come with pre-compiled binaries. All you need to do in this case is start the Freedroid executable, so you can skip the rest of this section.

COMPILING AND INSTALLING UNDER LINUX:

Get the Freedroid sources, either the ``release'' .tar.gz archive from the project page or the current CVS sources.

If you have downloaded a .tar.gz package, you need to unpack it by typing

tar -xfz freedroid-(your-version).tar.gz

where you replace '(your-version)' of course with the proper digits of the file name you downloaded. Now you should have the sources in ./FreeDroid. In order to compile, install and run the game, please follow the instructions in the file FreeDroid/INSTALL

Then you should be able to play it! Have fun. In case of trouble, read all supplied documentation, then contact the developers, e.g. by sending e-mail to freedroid-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net. You can expect a reply shortly.

How do I start the game? Which command line options should I use?

WINDOWS: Just double-click on the executable in the directory you have obtained from the (self-extracting) archive.

LINUX: You can start the game by typing freedroid or freedroidRPG in the /src subdirectory. The command line options allow you to run in fullscreen mode instead of the windowed default, to activate a debug log, to activate or deactivate sound, to print version information and also to set up a fixed time frame after that the program will terminate. Thats for the case that the program hangs. You can also see a summary of command line options by typing freedroid -help. On my machine, that give the following:

johannes@athlonlinux:~/freedroid/src> ./freedroid --help
Usage: freedroid [-v|--version]
[-q|--nosound]
[-s|--sound]
[-t|--timeout=SECONDS]
[-f|--fullscreen]
[-w|--window]
[-d|--debug=LEVEL]