Attention people! Battle for Wesnoth for OLPC has now been released! Go here to get it!
Hey OLPC hackers and Wesnoth gamers!
I’ve just created a working Sugar-ised version of Battle for Wesnoth for the OLPC XO-1.
Basically, this is a self-contained Wesnoth within an activity bundle that has been slightly modified to be able to work within Rainbow security on newer OS versions.
This Wesnoth is based on version 1.4.3, and is able to play online on official Wesnoth servers, and between other PCs and Macs running Wesnoth 1.4.3.
Before I post this on the official Activities page, I would just like a handful of testers to download it, test it, and tell me whether it worked or not.
I don’t expect a painstakingly detailed test — a simple “I installed it on my OLPC running build 703, and it ran the tutorial fine, and I totally pwned that guy online today” is enough.
So, if you’re interested in testing it, just fire me a quick e-mail (jeremy AT visser DOT name) or leave a comment, and I’ll give you a download link.
If you test it, I’ll be sure to mention you in the README file when I release it.
Update: Samy Boutayeb has uploaded a screenshot of this port running on a Joyride build:


WANT! Please send me the link and I’ll report back in a day or two. Nice one!
Nice One! Pia you missed the beta of this at the techfest. Jeremy was kind enough to let me beat him. It was my first game of wesnoth, and now i’m hooked.
Send me the link please Jeremy, i’d love to see how this compares to wesnoth running on my eeepc.
What ever happened with this? I would love to throw it on the activities page/test it myself.
Haven’t had time lately. I’ll get around to it later this week, hopefully.