[SIG Games] Package for TA Spring available

[Aurelien Bompard]

Hi Fedora gamers,

I've been packaging TA Spring recently, it's a clone of the famous game
Total Anihilation, by Cavedog Entertainment (RIP).
For those who don't know it, Total Anihilation was a great realtime strategy
game, pretty impressive at the time (1997). See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Annihilation for more info.

It's still under heavy development, but the Linux port begins to be
playable.

I don't know if I have sufficient interest in this game to maintain it
further on, but since it was not listed on the Games wiki page, you might
be interested in the spec files.

You'll find them here:
http://gauret.free.fr/fichiers/rpms/fedora/taspring-0.72-0.1.b1.src.rpm
http://gauret.free.fr/fichiers/rpms/fedora/taspring.spec
http://gauret.free.fr/fichiers/rpms/fedora/taspring-data-0.72-0.1.b1.src.rpm
http://gauret.free.fr/fichiers/rpms/fedora/taspring-data.spec

You'll also need:
http://gauret.free.fr/fichiers/rpms/fedora/glew-1.3.4-1.src.rpm
http://gauret.free.fr/fichiers/rpms/fedora/glew.spec


There are still some areas to improve on : for example the game expects two
dirs to be writable. Since I'm not good enough at C++ programming to patch
it, I've symlinked those dirs to /var/games/taspring and set them 1777. Of
course the best solution would be to have the game create subdirectories
based on the user name, or even better look for them in ~/.taspring, but I
have no idea how to patch that.

If you are interested, feel free to grab my spec files, fix them, and submit
them to Extras.

It's a nice game, but in early stages of development...
I hope you'll like it.

Aurélien
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