The game is called Think Tanks and has is not sold or supported anymore but I did get the makers to run there master server for me and we also have a community that runs a backup master if the original one is not running. I can send you a copy of the game if it will help you trouble shoot his. Its only 13 mb in size or so. The game was sold with 3 different installers,, windows, mac, and linux. I have all three versions.

The games minimum system requirements are :

Windows 98/SE/ME/2000/XP
Pentium II 400, 64 MB RAM
OpenGL Compatible 3D Graphics Accelerator (16MB recommended)
DirectX compatible Soundcard

Macintosh OS X (version 10.1 through 10.3)
G4 or G5 processor
64 MB RAM
OpenGL Compatible 3D Graphics Accelerator (16MB recommended)

Linux
Pentium-MMX compatible CPU 400 MHz, 128 MB RAM
NVIDIA TNT2 or better 3D Graphics Accelerator.
Sound card
Kernel 2.4 or newer
glibc 2.2 or newer
XFree86 4.0 or newer with OpenGL hardware acceleration.


Thanks
ou8it

Looks like Michael is MIA so maybe I should move this in a different direction. Is there a Linux distro that is 32 bit and 64 bit glicb ? or does 32 bit support have to be done after installing.

Thanks for any help,
ou8it

Ou8it, let me know where to go for the game client when you can. I'll see if I can figure it out for you.

Check your email, after installing the game you may need to open the game/client/pref.cs and add our backup master address under the original master server address to see game servers if the original master is not running. Then delete the pref.cs.dso.

Find these lines :

$pref::Master0 = "2:master.garagegames.com:28002";
$pref::Master1 = "2hobiks.dyndns.org:28001"; The smily face is a "p" <----add this line
$Pref::Net::LagThreshold = "450"; <----change to 450
$pref::Net::PacketRateToClient = "32"; <----change to 32
$pref::Net::PacketRateToServer = "32"; <-----change to 32
$pref::Net::PacketSize = "450"; <-----change to 450

Save changes.

Ok, the following thread at askubuntu I think is probably the reason it's difficult to install this game on newer and x64 versions of Ubuntu.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/40416...c-so-6-missing

Reviewing the contents of the file, using --keep on the command line will make it leave the installation directory behind. At that point I think it's a matter of updating the setup.sh file to point to the correct directories so it can detect libc and any other dependencies it won't find.

I have to take my dogs out for a walk and go to work so I probably won't get back to this until later, possibly tommorow. (wife + valentines day = intolerance for paying attention to computer and not her)

Just incase you can't get what you are currently trying to work you can change your sources list to Intrepids new (unsupported) location just by changing your sources list entries from to Just change this section nothing else in the line.
Doing this should allow you to get the Intrepid drivers you need. but understand this is no longer supported so it is not a system that could be considered secure for general usage.

I tried messing with the Nvidia display settings at one point had the curser working and entered my name and serial number but the next time I started the game the curser was stuck on top left again. I kept changing settings until I screwed it up to the point that when I try to log on with the user that I have the game installed for, I can't get back to the desktop.(stuck on display settings error) I can log in as root but I can't change the display settings for the user that I can't log in with. Make any sence?

Thanks k3lt01 I tried your advise but not sure I have it down complexity. It needed to be done as root user. But i still get some repositories not available.

Post your sources.list if you want and we can take a look at it. If you do post it make sure you put it in a code box, the # at the top of the reply to thread box.

switching the library paths in the scripts doesn't look like it's going to work (or I'm missing something). The setup binary seems to have it's own checks which I can't change.

If installing this on a multiarch system is necessary the only thing at this point would be to dive into the source code and update the programming to work with it.

I'm going to bail out on Ubunto 8.1 and try to get this game and server running on a newer distro. Any suggestions as to the best distro that I can easily update to support both 64 and 32 bit glicb?

Can anyone post a link to a 32 bit distro that still has active support?