forked-from-1kasper / tigerspades

BetterSpades for PowerPC Mac OS X

TigerSpades

• Compatible client of Ace of Spades (classic voxlap).
• Runs on very old systems back to OpenGL 1.1 (OpenGL ES support too).
• Shares similar if not even better performance to voxlap.

Why should I use this instead of ...?

• Free of any Jagex code, they can’t shut it down.
• Open for future expansion.
• Easy to use.
• A lot of hidden bugs.

Differences in this fork

• Support of big-endian systems (e.g. PowerPC).
• Unicode & UTF-8.
• Customizable key bindings.
• Cleaned up user interface.

System requirements

Type	min. requirement
OS	Windows 98 or Linux
CPU	1 GHz single core processor
GPU	64 MiB VRAM, Mobile Intel 945GM or equivalent
RAM	256 MiB
Display	800×600
Others	Keyboard and mouse Dial up network connection

Build requirements

This project uses the following libraries and files (their code is included in the repository):

Name	License	Usage	GitHub
inih	BSD-3.Clause	.INI file parser	Link
dr_wav	Public domain	wav support	Link
http	Public domain	http client library	Link
LodePNG	MIT	png support	Link
libdeflate	MIT	decompression of maps	Link
enet	MIT	networking library	Link
parson	MIT	JSON parser	Link
log.c	MIT	logger	Link
GLEW	MIT	OpenGL extensions	Link
hashtable	MIT	hashtable	Link
libvxl	MIT	access VXL format	Link
microui	MIT	user interface	Link

You will need to compile the following by yourself, or get hold of precompiled binaries:

• GLFW3 or SDL.
• OpenAL.

Windows

Use MinGW-w64 from MSYS2:

$ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-glfw mingw-w64-x86_64-openal unzip
$ make TOOLKIT=GLFW game

If everything went well, the client should be in the dist/ subfolder.

Linux

You can build each library yourself, or install them with your distro’s package manager:

sudo apt install libgl1-mesa libgl1-mesa-dev libopenal1 libopenal-dev libglfw-dev

Start the client e.g. with the following inside the dist/ directory:

./betterspades

Or connect directly to localhost:

./betterspades --server aos://16777343:32887

macOS

The development headers for OpenAL and OpenGL don’t have to be installed since they come with macOS by default.