The Typing of the Dead

What works

Game works fine.

What does not

There is a significant delay when transitioning to different parts of the game, i.e., going from the splash screen to the menu, or moving into a new area in the game. The most straightforward way, I think, to describe it, is like a PlayStation 1 "Please wait... Loading..." delay. The pauses do not really affect game play, but it's still pretty annoying.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Network play.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

My computer is a Arch Linux x86_64 install with a Nvidia graphics card, and I had to install two additional packages from the repos to get the game to work. - Installed lib32-nvidia-utils to fix the 'Not Support Graphics Device' message and quit. - Installed lib32-mpg123 to get the sound to work.

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If wine version contained in your repositories is outdated, before proceding, you should consider updating your sources (see http://www.winehq.org/download/deb for more details).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