xsystem4

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

Compatiblity

See the game compatibility table for a list of games that can be played on xsystem4.

Building

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

• chibi-scheme [optional, for debugger]
• bison (bison)
• cglm (libcglm-dev) [optional, fetched by meson if not available]
• flex (flex)
• freetype (libfreetype-dev)
• glew (libglew-dev)
• meson (meson)
• libffi (libffi-dev)
• libpng (libpng-dev)
• libsndfile (libsndfile-dev)
• libturbojpeg (libturbojpeg0-dev)
• libwebp (libwebp-dev)
• SDL2 (libsdl2-dev)
• zlib (zlib1g-dev)

Then fetch the git submodules,

git submodule init
git submodule update

(Alternatively, pass --recurse-submodules when cloning this repository)

Then build the xsystem4 executable with meson,

mkdir build
meson build
ninja -C build

Finally install it to your system (optional),

ninja -C build install

Running

You can run a game by passing the path to its game directory to the xsystem4 executable,

build/src/xsystem4 /path/to/game_directory

Alternatively, run xsystem4 from within the game directory,

cd /path/to/game_directory
xsystem4