Hello fellow Linux gamers!

Here you can find informations about ./play.it, a tool building packages for Debian, Arch Linux, Gentoo and any derivative (Ubuntu, Manjaro, Linux Mint, etc.) from your installers for Wing Commander games.
These packages can be installed easily with your favourite packages manager.

Download links and usage instructions can be found on the following pages:
Wing Commander
Wing Commander Ⅱ
Wing Commander Ⅲ
Privateer

We hope youʼll enjoy the ease-of-use provided by this tool as much as we enjoy writing and tweaking it ;)

Here you go for more supported games!

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Salut camarades Linuxiens !

Vous trouverez ici des informations à propos de ./play.it, un outil construisant des paquets pour Debian, Arch Linux, Gentoo ou nʼimporte quelle distribution dérivée de celles-ci (Ubuntu, Manjaro, Linux Mint, etc.) à partir de vos installateurs pour les jeux Wing Commander.
Ces paquets sʼinstallent facilement via votre gestionnaire de paquets habituel.

Les liens de téléchargement et les instructions dʼutilisation se trouvent sur les pages suivantes :
Wing Commander
Wing Commander Ⅱ
Wing Commander Ⅲ
Privateer

Nous espérons que vous apprécierez le confort apporté par cet outil autant que nous apprécions lʼécrire et lʼaméliorer ;)

Pour plus de jeux, rendez-vous par ici !

Update

Wing Commander II

* Script updated to ./play.it 2.x, bringing amongst other nice improvements support for Arch Linux and Gentoo (and most derivatives)

Hi vv221,

Thank you very much for your script and the time you must have put into it.

Unfortunately, I've been unable to try it so far. The only version of the (first) game gog lets me download is "setup_wing_commander_1.0_(28045).exe", and even though I tried to rename it, it doesn't seem to work neither with this script or with Lutrix :(

Is there any way to run this script with this version ?

Thank you for advance
FallenXcrosS

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Salut vv221,

Merci beaucoup pour ton script et tout le temps que tu as du y consacrer.

Malheureusement, je n'ai pas réussi a le lancer. La seule version du (premier) jeu que gog me laisse télécharger est nommée "setup_wing_commander_1.0_(28045).exe", et même renommée, elle ne se lance ni avec ce script, ni avec Lutrix :( .

Y a t-il un moyen de lancer ce script avec cette version ?

D'avance merci
FallenXcrosS

Merci de l’info, j’avais manqué cette mise à jour de l’archive fournie par GOG.

Je l’ai signalée sur notre forge, et si je trouve le temps cette semaine je vais mettre le script à jour pour le rendre compatible avec cette nouvelle archive d’ici le week-end prochain.

Une nouvelle version du script, gérant l’archive actuellement fournie par GOG, est en cours de test : Game update: Wing Commander - New archive
Et voici un lien direct vers le script : play-wing-commander-1.sh

Merci du retour, ce script fera partie de la prochaine mise-à-jour de ./play.it

Update

Wing Commander

* New supported installer
  - setup_wing_commander_1.0_(28045).exe

Update

Wing Commander

* Improve general performances

Hello! Would it be possible to get a script for privateer? I am running Manjaro

Short answer? Yes ;)

Any activity on this front can be followed on our forge: New game: Privateer

If one or two weeks from now there are still no news about Privateer support, please post here to make sure I have not forgotten about it.

Experimental support for Privateer is ready to be tested, instructions can be found on our forge: New game: Privateer

Keep in mind that you need a MIDI synthesizer to get music, here I use FluidSynth.

Update

• New game: Privateer

Hi! I tried to use your fantastic script for the three Wing Commander games on my Linux Mint 20 system, and WC1 worked perfectly! WC2 and WC3 are another matter.

GOG has changed the WC2 installation file to setup_wing_commander_ii_1.0_(28045), which the play-wing-commander-2.sh script is not expecting, so the script bombs.

They also changed the WC3 installation file to two files, setup_wing_commander_iii_1.4_(28045).exe and setup_wing_commander_iii_1.4_(28045)-1.bin, which aren't compatible with the play-wing-commander-3_gog-2.1.0.7.sh script.

Can you help?

Thanks,
Kevin

I already have the new installers for both, so I should be able to publish an update soon.
Feel free to remind me if I have given no news on this front in a couple days ;)