Guide to Roguelike (ADOM) for Kindle 3

[Nihli]

Hi!

So what are roguelikes? Still developed, usually ASCII style role-playing games that complexity and level of difficulty is very high. Four of the most known games are Angband, Nethack, ADOM and Rouge. I enjoy playing them so I decide to install it for kindle and now would like to share with you, how you can do that.

Probably for people that are proficient linux users that what I will write is very easy, but for normal users it's a bit hard so I decide to share with you how to run ADOM (Ancient Domains of Mystery) for Kindle 3.

So what do you need?
1. Jailbreak.
2. Launchpad
3. Myts terminal.

So assuming that all of this is installed on your kindle (You don't have to be the root!) it is a short way from here. Now you must download from the ADOM (http://www.ancardia.com/download.html) page edition fitted for Raspbian / ARM processor. Put it on the kindle.

Go into terminal and write:
mntroot rw
/mnt/us/adom

Ooops. Error. It should give message about too small window of terminal. So plug your kindle into the computer another time and look for myts folder on kindle. While you are there you must edit myts.ini with notepad and change settings of fonts for (changes are bold):

include = keydefs.ini
Font = 7x14B.hex
Encoding = UTF8
FontHeight = 14
FontWidth = 7
YOffset = 40

Ok so now you return to your terminal, write commands

mntroot rw
/mnt/us/adom

and you can enjoy the one of most complex and hardest games in the world!

I hope this would be helpful to someone.
Nihli

[knc1]

This is a very bad idea (tm) for a number of reasons:

• As described, it makes the Amazon system image read/write during play.
• Program is just dump'd into the root of USB storage, ignoring our policies for placement of additions. Policies learned the hard way here.
• The application is built to use VFPv2 instructions and the K3 processor supports only the VFP instruction set.
  

  core2quad adom $ readelf -A adom
  Attribute Section: aeabi
  File Attributes
    Tag_CPU_name: "6"
    Tag_CPU_arch: v6
    Tag_ARM_ISA_use: Yes
    Tag_THUMB_ISA_use: Thumb-1
    Tag_FP_arch: VFPv2
    Tag_ABI_PCS_wchar_t: 4
    Tag_ABI_FP_denormal: Needed
    Tag_ABI_FP_exceptions: Needed
    Tag_ABI_FP_number_model: IEEE 754
    Tag_ABI_align_needed: 8-byte
    Tag_ABI_align_preserved: 8-byte, except leaf SP
    Tag_ABI_enum_size: int
    Tag_ABI_HardFP_use: SP and DP
    Tag_ABI_VFP_args: VFP registers
    Tag_CPU_unaligned_access: v6
    Tag_DIV_use: Not allowed

This project goes against basic principles we (the developers) at Mobilread support.

• No sources to be made available (see: readme1st.txt, section III.E).
• The above, in violation of license terms of some of the software components (see: text of the various licenses in the archive's "license" directory.
• It is a commercial project (crowd funded, but commercial none the less).

Personal Opinion:
Not Recommended!

[Nihli]

I would like to reply to some of your concerns:
1. One can dump program in whatever directory he wants, that was just an example.
2. I think you misunderstood III.E section - By sources Biskup (author of the game) meant that he don't want to release sources for ADOM so people won't edit it. Nobody except him have the sources - what do you mean? I only gave link to the official site.
3. Commercial is revival project of ADOM - you have to pay for newer release, but good, old ADOM is available totally for free.

I only show way, how one can make it running on another ARM machine, and as author released it for FREE, as a version for ARM machines, then he wanted to allow people on such machines to play it.

But concerns about making filesystem writable and about VFPv2 instructions are probably true - I can't say anything about that, my knowledge about computer science isn't big.

That's why I don't take any responsibility if playing adom destroys your kindle - this is just a guide how to make it running.

And if it's trully violating any licenses to show how to make it running then please show me where I will delete this thread.