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    Rocks´n Diamonds / Emerald Mine clone.... Port!

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      HPK-de
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      Hi,

      i never had an amiga, but the reason i wanted to have an Amiga emulator was just one game
      i played for days at a friend of mine back in the early 90s: "Emerald Mine" in my opinion the best "Boulderdash-like" game of all time.
      Because the amiga emulation isn´t quite stable with this game i chose to install the best clone of that game: "RocksnDiamonds". This game is updated frequently and there are tons of levelsets around, one of them is the original one from "Emerald Mine".
      First i tried to use the Dos Version which doesn´t start in Dosbox.

      Now i recompiled the 4.0RC3 version from the homepage for linux and put it into my ports folder and it works like hell :-).

      So i anyone is interested in this game, you can get it here:

      http://www.artsoft.org/rocksndiamonds/download.html

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        tien_huu_1408
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        Thanks a lot for your port. If you are interested in Amiga, you can try Amibian optimized for Raspberry Pi 2/3 for best experience.

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          Pyjamarama
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          Thank you! Can you be a bit more detailed about how to install it?

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            tien_huu_1408 @Pyjamarama
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            @Pyjamarama Please read instructions from this site:
            http://gunkrist79.wixsite.com/amibian

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              HPK-de @tien_huu_1408
              last edited by HPK-de

              @tien_huu_1408
              This is an complete distro for amiga right?
              I´m interested in an easy to use emulator for amiga inside Retropie...
              UAE4Arm is a bit complicated and not very stable....

              Can i install that inside retropie? Or do i need to flash it to a different sd-card?
              The website only tells me to flash it to SD....
              I know it´s made of UAE4Arm but maybe the UI is better....

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                tien_huu_1408 @HPK-de
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                @HPK-de Beside this, AmiBerry is the next choice for faster boot. Both of two are solid distros for Amiga. I don't know how to build inside Retropie. May be you should convert for NOOBS or BerryBoot for dual boot.

                Another way is you should build AmiBerry using terminal command.
                Please read AmiBerry at:
                http://blitterstudio.com/amiberry/

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                  Pyjamarama
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                  @HPK-de Sorry, I meant how to install the Linux distro of the game to my RetroPie (Pi3)

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                    HPK-de @Pyjamarama
                    last edited by HPK-de

                    @Pyjamarama
                    That´s easy.

                    1. Download the game as tar.gz here:
                      http://www.artsoft.org/RELEASES/unix/rocksndiamonds/rocksndiamonds-4.0.0.0-rc3.tar.gz

                    2. Extract the archive: tar -xzf rocksndiamonds-4.0.0.0-rc3.tar.gz

                    3. Go to the folder where the data is extracted to

                    4. Type: "sudo make clean"

                    5. Type: "sudo make sdl"

                    6. I have copied the complete folder to my ports folder (optional).

                    7. You have to make an sh-file for starting the game via Ports menu.
                      This file must be placed in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/ in order to find the
                      game in the ports menu of Emulationstation.

                    8. I´ve made my sh file executable: sudo chmod +x filename.sh

                    This file should look like this (depending on your folder structure):

                    #!/bin/bash
                    "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/rocksndiamonds-4.0.0.0-rc3/./rocksndiamonds"

                    (The game ist started via the command "./rocksndiamonds")

                    I hope that helps ;)

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                      tien_huu_1408 @HPK-de
                      last edited by tien_huu_1408

                      @HPK-de It worked perfectly on my RasPi 3. Nice guide. Thanks a lot.

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                        cyperghost @HPK-de
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                        @HPK-de
                        I tried to compile the game on myself, but get an error
                        recipe for target 'sdl' failed

                        Do you know a fix? Or can you please upload the compiled game?

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                          HPK-de @cyperghost
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                          @cyperghost

                          Hi, i uploaded the compiled version to my google drive so you can download it.
                          It is open surce anyway :-)
                          It´s a ZIP File, (~6MB) which containes the folder of the game and the .sh startup script
                          i made for it.
                          You maybe have to change that, according to your folder structure.
                          I put the game in the "home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports" ports folder....

                          Here is the link:

                          https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9TW8MipAel7aWN1ZzFGUkN1Qk0/view?usp=sharing

                          Have fun with it.

                          HPK-de

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                            cyperghost @HPK-de
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                            @HPK-de
                            Thank you ... there is something wrong with my SDL settings. I receive error ./rocksndiamonds: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL_net-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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                              Pyjamarama @HPK-de
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                              @HPK-de Worked like a charm. I did a chmod + x to the .sh file and the executable. For reasons uknown it cannot red the up and down in my fresh new ZeroEncoder stick. Left and Right work OK...but I think I have seen it in other ports too. Something with my config or SDL maybe...

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                              • herb_fargusH
                                herb_fargus administrators @cyperghost
                                last edited by

                                @cyperghost likely missing a dependency:

                                libsdl-net1.2 libsdl-net1.2-dev

                                If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                                Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                  cyperghost @herb_fargus
                                  last edited by

                                  @herb_fargus said in Rocks´n Diamonds / Emerald Mine clone.... Port!:

                                  libsdl-net1.2 libsdl-net1.2-dev

                                  You both (@HPK-de and @herb_fargus rock :)

                                  sudo apt-get install libsdl-net1.2 libsdl-net1.2-dev
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                                  • herb_fargusH
                                    herb_fargus administrators
                                    last edited by

                                    In case anyone is interested I created a module for it and submitted a pull request to @zerojay's retropie extra repository:

                                    https://github.com/zerojay/RetroPie-Extra/pull/184

                                    I only tested on my pc but it should work on the pi too.

                                    If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                                    Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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