Sid meiers alpha centauri

• PlayOnLinux 4.1.2-dev

  • Tested with Wine 1.4

  • Install path Program Files/GOGcom/Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri/

  • Shortcuts:

    • Manual ["Manual.pdf" ]
    • Readme ["readme.txt" ]
    • Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ["terran.exe" ]

  • Some entries in AppDB suggest using Wine 1.5.4+ for some new features

  • Lots of clicks and looping sounds

    • http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30811 it affects only music, not what I experienced
    • Resampling everything to 44.1kHz? with for i in *.wav; do sox "$i" temp.wav rate -q 44100 && mv "temp.wav" "$i"; done
      • Improves sound significantly, still sound degrades at times, and some sounds (just spotted voice when you want to quit) play at half rate, 22.05kHz must be hardcoded for those
    • Alpha Centauri.ini [Alpha Centauri]
      • eax=0 no change
      • ds3d=0 no change
      • Main Volume=127 Voice Volume=127 Music Volume=63 SFX Volume=95 modify volume but doesn't seem to fix the clicks
    • Looks like a sound clipping issue! Normalize to -3db? for i in *.wav; do echo "$i"; sox "$i" temp.wav gain -n -3 && mv -f "temp.wav" "$i"; done
      • Bingo!
    • Still some looping sounds, easy to reproduce one: attempt to quit game, hear "Please don't go..." message looping

  • Exitcode 1

GOG Installer v2

• PlayOnLinux 4.1.9-dev
  • Tested with With 1.4.1
  • Complain about sdbinst.exe (not fatal)
  • Install path GOG Games/Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri/
  • Shortcuts:
    • Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ["terran.exe" ]
    • Readme ["readme.txt" ]
    • Manual ["Manual.pdf" ]
    • Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire ["terranx.exe" ]
    • Readme ["readme_ac.txt" ]
    • Run Faction Editor ["facedit.exe" ]