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There are at least 3 versions of Rise of the Triad that are supported
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by rott. Each game version uses a different game binary, but there's a
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wrapper script that looks at the available game data files and runs the
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"best" version of the game (this is what happens if you just run "rott",
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or run Rise of the Triad from the KDE/XFCE application menu). The game
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looks for the data files in /usr/share/games/rott, and the different
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versions can coexist. All filenames must be UPPERCASE.
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Which version do I have?
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If you've got an installed copy of the game, maybe on a DOS/Windows partition,
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here's how to identify it:
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- If you have no files named DARKWAR.*, you have the shareware/demo
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version.
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- If you have DARKWAR.(WAD|RTL|RTC), but no ROTTCD.RTC, you have the
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registered floppy/download version.
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- If you have ROTTCD.RTC (and DARKWAR.*), you have the CD-ROM version.
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Shareware/Demo version 1.3
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Data files: HUNTBGIN.WAD HUNTBGIN.RTC HUNTBGIN.RTL REMOTE1.RTS
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If you want to include the shareware game data files in your package,
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download the shareware version of the game and place it in the SlackBuild
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directory before building:
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# wget http://icculus.org/rott/share/1rott13.zip
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# ./rott.SlackBuild
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# installpkg /tmp/rott-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD.tgz
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If the icculus.org link doesn't work, the same file can be downloaded
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from http://www.3drealms.com/rott/ (look for "v1.3 Shareware
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Episode" on the page). Either way, the md5sum for rott13.zip is
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0fafd6b629eab80278fc726e31f9cf41.
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If you built the package without the shareware data files, you can just
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extract the zip file and copy the data files to /usr/share/games/rott
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manually.
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The binary for the shareware version is called "rott-demo".
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Registered (Floppy Disk, Registered Download) version 1.3
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Data files: DARKWAR.WAD DARKWAR.RTC DARKWAR.RTL REMOTE1.RTS
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Copy these files from your DOS/Windows ROTT game directory to
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/usr/share/games/rott/, making sure to give them all-uppercase names.
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If the shareware REMOTE1.RTS is already there, it doesn't matter whether
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you overwrite it or not (this file is identical in the demo and registered
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versions).
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If you have an older version than 1.3, see http://www.3drealms.com/rott/
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for a patch.
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The binary for the registered version is called "rott-reg".
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CD-ROM version 1.3
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Data files: DARKWAR.WAD ROTTCD.RTC DARKWAR.RTL REMOTE1.RTS
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Copy these files from your Rise of the Triad CD-ROM to
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/usr/share/games/rott/, making sure to give them all-uppercase names.
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On my CD, there are two copies of the files (in the rottplay/ and
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rottinst/ subdirectories). The REMOTE1.RTS is identical to the
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one from the shareware and registered versions.
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The binary for the CD-ROM version is called "rott-cdrom". (The CD doesn't
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have to be in the drive to play the game, though)
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This version of the game is identical to the registered version except
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that it uses a different set of levels for multiplayer games.
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If you have an older version than 1.3, see http://www.3drealms.com/rott/
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for a patch.
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Data File MD5 sums
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2823fe5baa07fa2a5a05df3af0cf8265 DARKWAR.RTC
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d1f44aa4d1cb230ba6c3694acc09b6b7 DARKWAR.RTL
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2ec4b19372d1ae55d01058f772f6214f DARKWAR.WAD
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4d90dec2da07a8eee1162efd3e23d98d HUNTBGIN.RTC
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b9b0a3be46a4f7fccabb1c1e8cf5455f HUNTBGIN.RTL
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37793500e3b1de2125a98604b69838e3 HUNTBGIN.WAD
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190c69835af502e4d8f08ee733c3fcc5 REMOTE1.RTS
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64c8e7123a7edcb7b8739b42cdae0120 ROTTCD.RTC
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These md5sums are for the 1.3 shareware and CD-ROM versions of the game
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(the files the SlackBuild author used for testing). If yours don't match,
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they might be for an older version of the game, or they might be corrupt
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(try them and see).
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Wrapper Script (/usr/games/rott)
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If you run "rott" from the command line, or launch it from the KDE/XFCE
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application menu, this script looks in /usr/share/games/rott to see which
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set of data files you have, and runs the correct game binary for you.
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If the script finds ROTTCD.RTC, it runs rott-cdrom
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Otherwise, if it finds DARKWAR.WAD, it runs rott-reg
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Otherwise, if it finds HUNTBGIN.WAD, it runs rott-demo
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If none of the above exist, it exits with an error.
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If you have the correct data files, you can always run rott-demo,
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rott-reg, or rott-cdrom directly, to choose which version of the game
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to play. You probably should always do this for multiplayer games,
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since all players need to be running the same version of the game.
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Add-on Levels
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Add-on level packs require the registered or CD-ROM version of the game.
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To load them, use the "file", "filertl", and/or "filertc" options. Unlike
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the main game data files, add-on files are searched for in the current
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directory (or you can give the full path).
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Example: to play the ROTT Reject Level Pack, download and unzip it, then
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run:
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$ rott filertc REJECTS.RTC
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...and then start up comm-bat mode.
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RTL files are single-player levels and RTC files are for comm-bat
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(multiplayer). Remember that comm-bat mode doesn't really work in this
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port of ROTT (no networking code, so all you can do is run around by
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yourself).
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