The Typing of the Dead

What works

Playing through the chapters. Arcade mode. Original mode. Drill mode. Boss mode.

Game fully playable and enjoyable!

Was able to have a fun time killing zombies with my keyboard!

What does not

Not much. One or two glitches (sometimes hard to distinguish between Wine problems and original game problems). Sometimes sounds are unsynchronised or the sound cuts out, response to your typing can be a tad delayed.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Playing till the very end.
Most of the boss fights in Boss Mode, many of the Drill Mode levels.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

There are two "bugs" that I've seen happen in Windows too: 1) Smilebit and Sega logos at the start are slightly misaligned (seen it on Vista, not sure about XP) 2) No way to quit from the menu, you need to press Alt+F2 3) Other miscellanea and graphical glitches (making determine Wine's fidelity somewhat tricky). While a great game, the PC port was a tad deficient.

INSTALLATION

PART 1: Getting the game to work(but no sound):

• You need 'unace' program to unpack game files. On Debian you can install it with: sudo apt-get install unace
  
• In the directory with game files run:­ unace x ttotd.ace

 You can also unpack sound files with command `wine mythxpak.exe myth.pak`

but at least on my system, having sounds in place causes the game to hang up after pressing a single button. You have to patch wine to get sound to work.

PART 2: Getting sound to work:

As of wine version 1.1.27 it is still necessary to apply a patch to source code and recompile. Big thanks to Torbjörn Söderstedt for the fix (see BUG 18823).

Below are instructions specific to Ubuntu, but they should be easily adaptable to any Debian derivative.

 NOTE:

If wine version contained in your repositories is outdated, before proceding, you should consider updating your sources (see http://www.winehq.org/download/deb for more details). Do it with the following:

1. Add the repo (replace `[YOUVERSION]` with `hardy` or `intrepid` or `jaunty`): sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/[YOURVERSION].list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
   
2. Add repo's gpg key: wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
3. Resynchronize index files: sudo apt-get update

• Download patch from xvhttp://adb.cba.pl/request.php?8: wget http://adb.cba.pl/request.php?8 -O ~/wine_sound_patch.patch
• Build library dependencies on your system: sudo apt-get build-dep wine
• Create directory for containing wine files: mkdir ~/wine-source; cd ~/wine-source
• Download wine source code: apt-get source wine
• Copy patch into the directory with source code: cp ~/wine_sound_patch.patch ~/wine_source/wine-*~winehq0~ubuntu~*
• Go to directory with source code: cd ~/wine-source/wine-*
• Apply patch: patch -p0 < wine_sound_patch.patch
• Compile and build .deb: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b
• Install fresh wine .deb: cd ..; sudo dpkg -i wine_*.deb 
• In "The Typing Of The Dead" installation directory unpack sound files: wine mythxpak.exe myth.pak
• Congratulations & Happy Typing
  
  

PLAYING

• Start game redirecting its output to null device (makes the game run waaay faster): wine Tod_e.exe > /dev/null 2>&1

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TROUBLESHOOTING

If the game hangs after pressing a single button and you have `sounds` directory then you can:

• apply patch and get sound to work (described in section INSTALLATION->Part 2)
  

• or delete `sounds` directory
• or rename `sounds` directory
  
• or disable `ALSA-driver` in Sound submenu in winecfg.