Stargus

Installing Stargus on Nokia N900

Extract data from original Starcraft I CD. You have 2 options:
- Use Windows or Linux machine to extract:
  1. Install Stargus from https://launchpad.net/stargus on your PC. Make sure that the version of Stargus is same that for Maemo!
  2. Data from the CD will be extracted during installation.
  3. After succesfull installation, copy data to folder /opt/stratagus/share/stargus/ on the N900. Data on Windows is extracted to install directory, on Debian-like system to /usr/share/stratagus/stargus
- Extract data directly to the N900:
  1. Copy INSTALL.EXE from the original Starcraft I CD to the directory /home/user/MyDocs/Starcraft on the N900 (Connect phone to computer with USB in mass storage mode and copy files to Starcraft directory) Note: Broodwar does not work
Install Stargus from Hildon Application Manager or via apt-get
If you choose to extract data on the phone or you have extracted old/incompatible/other version data files, then during Stargus installation data files from /home/user/MyDocs/Starcraft will be automatically extracted. Note that this process may take 15 minutes and the application may not respond during this time.
After installation, Stargus can be run from the application menu.

Download Stargus: Linux - Windows
Put your Starcraft CD in.
Install Stargus and when you are asked, select the CD-Rom drive.
Exit Stargus and go to the directory where Stargus was installed (C:\Program Files\Stargus)
Copy the CONTENT of the Data directory to your memory card to media\mmc1\games\stratagus\stargus
Next you have to download this file: Stratagus deb file
Copy this file to the root directory of your external memory card
running the .deb from the file manager should work
otherwise, Open X-Terminal and type in the following as root, pressing enter after each line:

cd ..
cd ..
cd media/mmc1/
dpkg -i stratagus-0.1-4_armel.deb

Once installed, the shortcut created in the application menu will not work, use this code in X-terminal instead:

stratagus -v 2 -d /media/mmc1/games/stratagus/stargus

Notes:

Be very careful with your spelling of stratagus/stargus, it will save you a lot of frustration. Copy-and-pasting into X-term is preferable.
You may see an error stating that preferences.lua cannot be loaded or found. ignore this. Stargus should still start and after editing settings you won't see that message again.
Stargus may not initially start in full screen. but this is okay, you simply need to goto settings within stargus and tick "full screen." don't change the display size.
You can create a custom shortcut, using the X-term code above, in the wonderful application Personal Menu by Andrew Olmsted