Brussels Bikes
tags: bike brussels fun
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Bikes are very important means of transport in Brussels, see the photos:
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I'm posting this mostly because I could not find the squeezed bike on the street lamp photo on Google Maps anymore.
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Playing Need For Speed Most Wanted on Ubuntu
tags: fun games nfsmw wine
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There is a bunch of problems when installing and running Need For Speed Most Wanted game on Linux. We'll cover them one by one, but first what I'll tell you want you need:
- Need For Speed Most Wanted — I recommend having an original DVD, otherwise you shouldn't play
- Computer with NVIDIA graphics card (maybe others also work, Intel doesn't)
- A bunch of time, to do all the stuff listed here
Getting NFSMW installed
You would normally mount the DVD and run the AutoRun.exe with wine, but it's not really working, because it detects you have no DirectX and installs it, but after this does nothing.
We'll install DirectX ourselves and then work on the installer to not detect and install it.
Install DirectX with winetricks:
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks d3dx9
Then foul the installer: copy the DVD to some folder in the filesystem and edit AutoRun/autorun.cfg in the following way:
* find StartMenuDXEULA=1 line and replace it with StartMenuDXEULA=0
* find DirectXVersion=9.0c line and replace it with DirectXVersion=0
Now start AutoRun.exe from copied installer.
Running NFSMW
The version of wine that works for me is 1.2. Upgrade wine and then run speed.exe from ~/.wine/dos_devices/c:/Program Files/EA GAMES/Need For Speed Most Wanted (or similar dir, depends on your configuration of course).
Launch winecfg and set Windows version to Windows 2008 (maybe others work as well, this works for me).
Problem with not recognizing DVD
Even when you have an original DVD NFSMW may not recognize it correctly under Linux — you'll get "please enter DVD". You'll need NoDVD crack then.
The version that worked for me was one for NFSMW version 1.3. You need to upgrade NFSMW first, by using this file: http://www.filefront.com/4436930/Need-for-Speed-Most-Wanted-v1.3-Patch/ (just run it with wine to upgrade).
Then replace the speed.exe binary with one from this crack: http://www.gameburnworld.com/dl/dl.php?file=NeedForSpeedMostWantedv1.3ProperWorkingNoDVDFixedexeEng.rar — unrar and replace speed.exe.
Choppy sound
From time there is pulseaudio daemon installed on my Ubuntu, I've been having problems with audio in wine. The solution to problem in NFSMW is:
- run winecfg, set audio driver to OSS only (remove tick from ALSA)
- run game through pasuspender, like this:
pasuspender wine speed.exe
It works pretty nice for me when running like this. The only drawback is that pulseaudio queues all sounds to be played during your game, so after you quit it so can get sound notifications from Pidgin or other applications.
Results
I'm getting really nice graphics and reasonable FPS (about 30 I think) — just good enough to perceive it smooth, but bad enough to see the flickering from time to time (when there are many objects to render).
The special effects are really nice: raindrops on camera, colors of nature during sunset and finally the "I'm running so fast, that things are going blurry" effect.
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Finally Free
tags: fof fun polish
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Grałem dzisiaj trochę w Frets On Fire. Najpierw mierząc się z piosenką Root Of All Evil Dream Theater, następne Finally Free. W tej drugiej w końcu osiągnąłem mój zamierzony dawno cel:
- 200 dźwięków pod rząd dobrze zagranych
- > 200.000 punktów
- 5 gwiazdek dokładności (> 95%)
Najtrudniej było zawsze z tym pierwszym punktem (chociaż zdarzyło mi się go kilka razy zrealizować osobno). Dzisiaj w końcu udało się! Załączam zdjęcie na dowód:
