XSkat on MacOS

Maybe the first game I ever played on Linux is XSkat. The other day I wondered, if it would build on MacOS, and - yes, it does.

 

 Here the patch:

diff --git a/Imakefile b/Imakefile
index ab1b892..06fd031 100644
--- a/Imakefile
+++ b/Imakefile
@@ -19,13 +19,28 @@
 */
 
 /*DEFL=-DDEFAULT_LANGUAGE=\"german\"*/
+/* macOS-specific adjustments */
+#ifdef Darwin
+   # Use clang instead of gcc
+   CC = clang
+   # X11 paths for Homebrew
+   X11_BASE = /opt/X11
+   X11_INCLUDES = -I$(X11_BASE)/include
+   X11_LIBDIR = -L$(X11_BASE)/lib
+   # SDK paths
+   SDK_PATH = $(shell xcrun --show-sdk-path)
+   EXTRA_CFLAGS = -isysroot $(SDK_PATH) $(X11_INCLUDES)
+   EXTRA_LDFLAGS = $(X11_LIBDIR)
+#endif
+
+/* Language selection */
 DEFL=-DDEFAULT_LANGUAGE=\"english\"
 
 DEFI=-DDEFAULT_IRC_SERVER=\"irc.fu-berlin.de\"
 
 DEFINES=$(DEFL) $(DEFI)
 
-LOCAL_LIBRARIES=$(XLIBONLY)
+LOCAL_LIBRARIES=$(XLIBONLY) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)
 
 OBJS=skat.o ramsch.o null.o bitmaps.o xio.o xdial.o irc.o text.o
 SRCS=skat.c ramsch.c null.c bitmaps.c xio.c xdial.c irc.c text.c

I had to install a few brew packages.

brew install imake xorgproto libx11 libxext libxt

IBM Adoption

 IBM  ThinkPad R50e (1834K3J)

Just randomly picked this thing up at HardOff on the weekend.

 

Says no RAM and no HDD (and has no Alt-Key).

I thought for 1.1k Yen, I'll take it home and see what it does.

The manual is on archive.org - nice.

I found some RAM (1GB) and an old IDE HDD (from a broken G4 iBook) and threw it in.

I use a variable PSU at 16.5V - power on and all is working fine!

Well, the Bios backup battery is of course dead. I'll have to replace it, if I want to keep this thing.

Then I remembered, that somewhere in my parts bin should be a Pentium M CPU that I could screw in for a nice upgrade. It came with a Celeron 1.3GHz and I upgraded it to a Pentium 1.7GHz.

Next I grabbed the Recovery CDs and installed XP. Unfortunately I don't have the original Japanese CDs, but only the German ones - but they did the trick.

XP runs fantastic on this old machine, but there is only so much one can do with XP.

I did the whole shenanigans with legacyupdate and upgrade Windows as much as possible.

Then I removed a bit of bloat-ware (Norton 2004, really not what I want to deal with).

Next I ran a geekbench2 benchmark : 1151 - what a beast :)

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