[Pkg-games-ubuntu] [Bug 298992] Re: ROTT freezes after a short while

[Evgeni Golov]

Strictly speaking: no, timidity is not a mandatory dependency of rott.
rott can (or should) be able to run without timidity with disabled sound.
You can check this by calling "rott nosound" in a terminal, that will start rott without sounds and it shouldnt hang anymore.

I will investigate further and try to fix up the thing if I'll be able
to understand it fully - people who know SDL_Mixer are highly wellcome
to help :)

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ROTT freezes after a short while
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Status in “rott” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
Binary package hint: rott

Hi there,

I don't know if anyone ever tried this package, but it seems to have a serious bug. It runs perfectly fine at the beginning, but the whole game freezes after a few seconds and simply does nothing anymore. This happens everytime, no matter what I set before. I always have to kill that process after that :-/

The terminal output doesn't show anything unusual:

---[snip]---
Rise of the Triad Startup  Version 1.4
 Shareware Version 
Z_INIT: 8950000 bytes
IN_Startup: Mouse Present
    Adding /usr/share/games/rott/HUNTBGIN.WAD.
    Adding /usr/share/games/rott/REMOTE1.RTS.
W_Wad: Wad Manager Started NUMLUMPS=2103
RT_DRAW: Tables Initialized
MU_Startup: 
SD_SetupFXCard: 
SD_Startup: 
RT_MAIN: Fonts Initialized
RT_MSG: Message System Started
RT_VIEW: Colormaps Initialized
---[/snip]---

Can anyone confirm this?