Ok, so Jurassic Park was pretty cool.
Anyway, I've been working on this USB / CD version
off-and-on for about 3 weeks now.
As I say, I started with Debian.
(I happen to prefer Debian, and may create another as such.)
Tho I wanted it to be a smaller download.
So I started again with Slax - 7.0.8
(The reason being, Debian VirtualBox image is like 5.7 gig,
whereas the Slax .iso is 400 meg.)
I basically installed these modules:
openal-soft 1.15.1
cmake 2.8.10.2
irrlicht 1.8
and most importantly,
minetest 0.4.6(I know there's a few more packages that could be installed,
such as LuaJIT and cURL, so I'll get to that when I get time.
You have to do goofy things to create modules for Slax tho,
so it'll take a few. Don't expect a newer version to arrive for a couple weeks...
...as a lot of my time is now focused on helping my kid learn baseball.
He just took it up, and going to practice takes up a lot of my free time.)
You can build one of these on your own, the thing is it includes a pretty comprehensive graphics package intended to speed things up for computers with older hardware.
I started with VanessaE's 32 px HDX pack, then batch-converted 'em all down to 6x6.'
Discovered that wasn't the best solution,
as all the ores didn't seem to line up properly.
So I re-did them all as 8x8.
That was better, but there were definitely some textures
that looked better with more detail.
I then put some in as 32x32, such as flowers, doors, signs, tools, stuff with text on it.
Resized many to 16x16, sticks, clay, whatnot.
Found out glass didn't like to be smaller,
so put that back in as 32x32.
Cut animations down to fewer frames, so as to save memory.
Water, Lava, Torches - simply 3 frames.
I realize they don't look as defined and spectacular
as some of the High-Def packages out there...
...but the idea is that you can easily view 200 blocks
on a Pentium4 with 256 meg of mem.
It has some old-school Nvidia GeForce 3 video card in it.
So it's safe to say the hardware's not new,
and yet Minetest is totally playable on it.
Results may vary. Hopefully it does Ok for you tho.
I then bounced into each of the servers I could
to pre-download all the cache stuff for ya.
That way, you should be able to log into most of them
without waiting too long for that initial "Waiting Content..."
Decent view on old hardware.
So yeah, try it out. Lemme know what you think.
sfan5 wrote:1) Not bad, but I think you don't need a whole live cd just for playing minetest, You just need to extract a .zip/.7z file
1.2) Also "installing" Minetest doesn't touch any folder except the folder where you extracted it
2) Generally upload websites that require ANY form of checking whether you are a human, are bad IMO
2.2) Just use omploader
3) Also, how big is it? filedropper sends no Content-Length header, that means I won't be able to know when my DL is finished
1) I agree. It's not for all. In fact, I'd recommend installing it to you own PC
(from the latest source if at all possible.) However...
there's a few times when you are at a friend's / relative's house,
and you really want to show them something you created on Minetest.
That's when you bust out your flash-and-dazzle
Minetest Live,
and wow them with your creations.
No downloads, no installs. You don't change anything on their PC.
Just put it in and reboot, and you're good to go.
1.2) Right, but my 8 year old kid can't install stuff on his mom's computer.
So it's the only way I could think of so he'd be able to log in over there.
2) I usually use wikisend, but their limit is 100 meg.
I just used filedropper because it handles 5 gigs max.
2.2) Last couple times I tried omploader, it was down.
that's why I started using filedropper.
3) it's 427 meg.
Thanks for the feedback tho. I'm glad you're trying it :)
