Greetings everyone,
I've been working on porting Gargoyle – a popular open source interactive fiction player – to Open Inkpot during the past couple of months. I'd appreciate if you could help me with beta testing. The port works on Hanvon n516 and its clones (with MIPS CPU architecture), e.g. Azbooka. The screenshots attached give an idea of how it looks like. Let me know if you're running Open Inkpot on other types of devices (with ARM CPU architecture), I'll try to build a corresponding package.
Here is how to install it. Grab the package from
here. Make sure your device is running a recent version of Open Inkpot firmware (see
here for details). Connect the device to your desktop computer, following the instructions
here. You need to press the Zoom key on n516/Azbooka devices after connecting the USB cable. Copy the package to the device using, for instance, the following command on Ubuntu desktop:
[ubuntu-shell]# scp gargoyle-mipsel-2011-1.deb root@192.168.111.1:/tmp
Login in to your device as described
here and run the following commands:
[open-inkpot-shell]# fc-cache -f
[open-inkpot-shell]# dpkg –i /tmp/gargoyle-mipsel-2011-1.deb
fc-cache will take a couple of minutes to finish. Then restart the device for its file manager to pick up new file associations. After that you can copy IF files to your device and launch them from the Library as an ordinary book. Make sure you read the Help after launching a game for the first time to get familiarized with controls. Press the 0 button after starting a game to get to the help screen.