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This was a lot more background work than expected, but that is the nature of unnecessary hobbies I guess. Most things in here are obvious, so here's the non-obvious thoughts and notes: 1. All the XP stuff is optional, if the toolchain isn't available it won't even try 2. The docker build is the "known good" build and now has all the required tools for XP and checking binaries a. If you're OK with it, can add the XP_MUST_BUILD flag to build_docker.sh 4. New `SPICE_XP` flag to comment out blocks 5. We could technically build using the Docker image I've made for my XP compatible LLVM toolchain, but combining the binaries into a single zip at the end of it is somewhat tedious, so I've chosen to grab the binaries from my release 6. I also wrote a DLL checker to make sure the final binaries are _actually_ XP compatible, which found some issues on x86_64 (I don't know a single game that runs on 64 bit XP, but it wasn't too much effort so whatever). This also won't run if missing, just to save the trouble. 7. The build script is still pretty shit, I've made some minor improvements a. `/usr/bin/env bash` instead of `/bin/bash` as it's more correct b. Adding `-it` to the docker build, so Ctrl+C actually halts it c. Main issue is that failures don't halt, because of the custom error catching function. This has caused a lot of frustration, maybe we can change that ## Testing It runs on 32 and 64 bit installs of XP. My jubeat cab is on Win10 these days and I haven't got around to testing an actual game, but I've distributed test builds of this to people who *have* confirmed it works as expected.
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spice2x
Overview
spice2x is a continuation of SpiceTools project. Original development of SpiceTools has stalled in 2022; spice2x is led by a new group of developers.
spice2x team does not provide any tools to circumvent software copy protection, nor distribute any copyright-protected game data.
How do I set up game data & start playing?
By policy,
- we do NOT provide links on where to acquire game data
- we do NOT provide tools or instructions on decrypting data
- we do NOT provide guides on setting up & basic troubleshooting
please do not ask for these, as it will never happen here.
Submitting to the Issue Tracker
Please file bugs if you find them! If you just complain about something in Discord servers, we can't see them, so they'll never be fixed.
Rules for filing a new issue or adding comments to existing issues in the tracker:
- Low effort submissions will be simply deleted, and repeated attempts will get you banned.
- Check the known issues page first before reporting a new issue. If you have some new information or workarounds for a known issue, you can file a documentation bug as well.
- Use the search function and see if there is an existing issue.
- This is not the place to obtain a guide or receive basic troubleshooting.
- Don't file a bug demanding game XYZ to be supported.
- Do not upload game data - any part of it, XML files included!
- Do not mention or link to external websites that distribute game data!
- Do not link to external websites that provide guides on how to run games!
New GitHub accounts are prevented from creating new issues to prevent spam. Maintainers of this project reserve the right to close or delete any issues that violate the rules above, or any low effort issues. If you ask for very basic troubleshooting help with setting up a game, we'll just delete them without warning.
Contributing
We encourage the community to submit bugs and suggestions via the issue tracker, and to contribute code changes by opening pull requests
If you want to resolve any reported (or not reported) bugs, implement features, add support for new games, or fix a known issue - feel free to reach out via the Issue tracker or by opening a Pull Request. All submitted code is assumed to be GPLv3 compliant.
We explicitly do NOT have a Discord server for dicussions - we try to do everything out in the open on this GitHub repo. That being said we haven't opened a Discussions tab here because we know it's going to be immediately filled with support requests.
Please see CONTRIBUTING page for a full list of guidelines when submitting code.
Additional information
Please read README.md inside src/spice2x.