[TruHobbyist]

For all those wishing to play Baldur's Gate I on IRIX, here are the steps:


1. Dependencies

These are the system provided libraries you will need to get GemRB running:

/usr/lib32/libfreetype.so (2.1.3) - xpdf.sw.xpdf (6.5.30 Applications CD)
/usr/lib32/libpng.so (1.2.8)  - ifl_eoe.sw.c++ (6.5.30 Overlays 2 of 3 CD)
/usr/freeware/lib32/libogg.so.1  - fw_libogg.sw.lib (Freeware May 2004 CD 3)
/usr/freeware/lib32/libvorbis.so.1 - fw_libvorbis.sw.lib (Freeware May 2004 CD 3)
/usr/lib32/libaudio.so  - dmedia_eoe.sw.audio (6.5.30 Overlays 2 of 3 CD)
/usr/lib32/libXext.so  - x_eoe.sw.eoe (6.5.30 Installation Tools and Overlays 1 of 3 CD)
/usr/freeware/lib32/libreadline.so.4 - fw_readline (Freeware May 2004 CD 4)
/usr/freeware/lib32/libintl.so.3 - fw_gettext (Freeware May 2004 CD 2)
/usr/lib32/libcurses.so - eoe.sw.base (6.5.30 Installation Tools and Overlays 1 of 3)


Get the freeware CDs here: CD1, CD2, CD3, CD4.


2. Baldur's Gate I installation folder

You need the game folder on your machine in order to play the game.

The folder is a 2.3GB large tarred file, split up into 5 parts:

Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.


To recreate the single tar file, you will need a total of ~5GB free disk space:

# cat bg1.tar.part* > bg1.tar
# rm bg1.tar.part*
# gtar -xf bg1.tar
# rm bg1.tar

Now you have the game folder bg1.


3. Install GemRB

Download this tar file, untar into /usr/dist, and install all products with swmgr.

The products are:

GemRB_0_8_4
Python_2_7_15
SDL_1_2_15
libiconv_1_14
zlib_1_2_7
FLAC_1_2_1
FluidSynth_1_1_5
SDL_mixer_1_2_12
glib_2_6_5
libmikmod_3_1_12
libogg_1_1_2
smpeg_0_4_5


4. Edit /usr/local/etc/gemrb/GemRB.cfg

Set GamePath to the path of your bg1 game folder.

For example:

GamePath=/usr/people/root/bg1


5. Run gemrb

# gemrb



Have fun

Tru

[Geoman]

Thank you TruHobbyist !

[Noguri]

Thank you so much!

Everything is working like a charm!

[TruHobbyist]

I love to hear that. Thanks.

[Jacques]

Thanks so much! Is there a minimum spec machine for running this?

[TruHobbyist]

Thanks so much! Is there a minimum spec machine for running this?

I would recommend a processor R5k with at least 300MHz or any R10k+ at any speed.

[Jacques]

I shall try it on my O2 then

[Irinikus]

I shall try it on my O2 then

It seems to work very well on the CRM architecture!

Here's Baldur's Gate I running on chulofiasco's O2: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LxR3q7...pTQtqh86Jm

I was really impressed by this performance.

My 400MHz O2 sits in Cape Town, so I'll only be able to run tests on it when I'm next down there.

[Jacques]

I'll try it on the 300Mhz R12k and then the 300Mhz RM5200 CPU.

[soviet]

Someone have the issue after concatenating all tar files on irix and using tar to uncompressed the bg1.tar file "tape premature eof may need to use -b option"
Copied the tar to my pc and seems to extract correctly, theres a parameter or something that i need to use on irix ?.