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Syndicate Wars Port is a port of the 1996 DOS game
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Syndicate Wars to modern operating systems. In particular, it runs on GNU,
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Mac OS and Windows, but it should also work on any system supported by the
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SDL library on the i386 architecture.
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To create the port, we disassembled the original DOS executable and replaced
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most of the DOS-specific parts with platform-independent code, using SDL for
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input and video display, Vorbis for music and OpenAL for sound.
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As part of the port we only provide a modernised executable which will run on
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contemporary systems. However, we do not provide the game data. To install
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the Syndicate Wars Port, you will need to have the original data from the
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Syndicate Wars CD.
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The port is not fully complete. It is possible to finish the single player
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campaigns, but support for networking is missing. There is also no support for
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joystick control.
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Installing
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Insert the Syndicate Wars CD and make sure it is mounted
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(e.g. in /media/cdrom)
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Do "swarsinstall -f SOURCE -t TARGET -l LANG -M", or
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"swarsinstall-x86 -f SOURCE -t TARGET -l LANG -M",
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where SOURCE is the game CD path, like /media/cdrom,
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TARGET is the destination path, either /system/settings/swars or
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~/config/settings/swars (depending on where you installed the package),
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LANG is the installation language, and can be one of: eng fre ita spa swe.
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Note that on haiku the installer can't currently rip the music, but you can
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manually rip it to ogg format and place track_1.ogg, track_2.ogg and
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track_3.ogg into /system/settings/swars/music or
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~/config/settings/swars/music
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Run swars, or swars-x86, to play!
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