xsystem4

xsystem4 is an implementation of AliceSoft's System 4 game engine for unix-like operating systems.

NOTE: This is a work in progress. Some simple ADV games run more or less okay, but most games are not fully working or have game-breaking bug when run with xsystem4.

Building

First install the dependencies (corresponding Debian package in parentheses):

• chibi-scheme [optional, for debugger]
• meson (meson)
• libffi (libffi-dev)
• SDL2 (libsdl2-dev)
• SDL2_mixer (libsdl2-mixer-dev)
• SDL2_ttf (libsdl2-ttf-dev)
• zlib (zlib1g-dev)

Then build the xsystem4 executable with meson,

mkdir build
meson build
ninja -C build

Running

You can run a game by passing the path to its "System40.ini" to the xsystem4 executable.

build/src/xsystem4 /path/to/System40.ini

For now, xsystem4 needs to be run in the top-level project directory (i.e. the directory that contains this README file). This will change in the future.