Really Rather Good Battles In Space for MS Windows
Really Rather Good Battles In Space for Linux - compile from source
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Really Rather Good Battles In Space for MS Windows
Really Rather Good Battles In Space for Linux - compile from source
Really Rather Good Battles In Space for Linux/Mac - binaries and installers
Download Really Rather Good Battles In Space 1.08 (55MB)
To install the game simply run the setup file.
If you have a particularly old video card then when you first start the game select "options" from the main menu and then change "Texture size" to "Low". If you have a pretty good video card (at least 64MB video memory) then you can change texture size to "High". The default of "Medium" is for cards with around 32MB of video memory. If the game still runs too slowly even with texture size reduced to "Low", go into the options menu again and reduce the screen resolution to 800*600.
Download Really Rather Good Battles In Space 1.08 (source + data) (54MB)
You can browse the most recent code available via a web based interface.
The following libraries, including the devel packages, are required to compile from source:
The game does not currently compile and run properly on many 64 bit systems, see this forum post - if you know how to fix this then please tell me. If you're lucky it might work for you anyway, otherwise just download a 32 bit binary and use that, or you could even run the Windows version through Wine.
Install instructions:
1. Extract the archive to wherever you want to install the game. It will create a directory named "rrgbis".
2. Go into the "rrgbis" directory and type "make", and then hit enter.
3. Run the game by typing ./rrgbis
5. If you want to put binary somewhere different to the game data, edit the settings file to point to the data location and then put the settings file in ~/rrgbis and the binary wherever you want to.
6. If you have a particularly old video card then when you first start the game select "options" from the main menu and then change "Texture size" to "Low". If you have a pretty good video card (at least 64MB video memory) then you can change texture size to "High". The default of "Medium" is for cards with around 32MB of video memory. If the game still runs too slowly even with texture size reduced to "Low", go into the options menu again and reduce the screen resolution to 800*600.
If you have problems compiling or running the game try looking for help on the forum.
The code is released under the GPL.
The art, music and sound from the game are copyright of their original authors and are under a variety of different licences. See the readme.txt for details.
As an alternative to compiling from source third parties have created various precompiled packages or install scripts, though these are not always up to date. The creation and maintenance of these packages are nothing to do with me, address any problems you have to the maintainers of the package:
If you have a particularly old video card then when you first start the game select "options" from the main menu and then change "Texture size" to "Low". If you have a pretty good video card (at least 64MB video memory) then you can change texture size to "High". The default of "Medium" is for cards with around 32MB of video memory. If the game still runs too slowly even with texture size reduced to "Low", go into the options menu again and reduce the screen resolution to 800*600.
If you have problems compiling or running the game try looking for help on the forum.
