Signus: The Artefact Wars

Classic turn-based strategy war game similar to the old Battle Isle series.
Commercially released in 1998, open-sourced by the original authors in 2002.

This is the SDL2 port for AROS x86_64-V11 of the game Signus: The Artefact Wars.
Download from the Aros Archives https://archives.arosworld.org/?function=showfile&file=game/strategy/signus.x86_64-aros-v11.zip



Visit this link to have more info about the game
https://signus.paan.cz/en/

For space reasons the data is NOT included in this archive.
To install the required datas needed to play go to
https://github.co...s/releases
and download the package for Win32 (signus-1.96.0-win32.zip) that is complete
with datas.
Extract only the datas (only the 2 dirs en, nolang ) from the zip package into
the desired directory where reside the signus
executable and the other few files contained in this package.
The 'cs' dir is needed only if you want to play using the Czech language.

If you want to disable the intro animations to speed up loading, go to .signus
directory open signus.ini and change
play_intros = 1 ; to zero
this works only for the first (intro) anims, not for the few anims where every
mission is loading.

If you find bugs, please report here.

@Farox
Where should the DAT files be copied? I’m getting an error saying “GRAPHICS.DAT” not found, and Sashimi isn’t helping.

Well i already writed on the first post.
Extract the 2 directory "en" and "nolang" along with signus executable.
You should have 3 dirs in total "en" "nolang" and ".signus", next at signus exe and default_signus.ini
and the other few readme files.

If you have changed the icon of the program, remember to add in Tooltype section this string:
SIGNUS_DATA_DIR=PROGDIR:
otherwise you could have the message reported.

I’m not sure if it’s down to the translation, but in the “signus-1.96.0-win32.zip” archive in the link you posted, there are no “en” or “nolang” folders; there’s just the binary, two Readme files and a file called “default_signus”.

After checking a bit, I found that the ‘en’ and “nolang” folders are actually in the ‘Source code (signus-1.96.1.tar.gz)’ archive.

please check if you have downloaded version "signus-1.96.1-win32.zip" that is not contain the datas.
The 1.96.0 version is the full one and is a 682MB zip file, instead the 1.96.1 is only 1.46MB.

OK, thanks, it's working now! i’d accidentally downloaded the original game CD!

@Farox

Question: How did you create the icon? I think it’s a DualPNG, but no programme on PC or Amiga can extract the two PNG images.

On AROS, I discovered that, strangely enough, if you drag your icon onto Icon Clone, the two PNG images that make up your icon are ‘automatically’ saved to RAM; see the attached video.

The standard DualPNG icons I create can be renamed to .PNG, after which they will be visible and manageable by all applications as standard PNG images.


--- Italiano ---

Domanda: Come hai creato l'icona, credo sia una DualPNG, ma nessun programma su PC o AMIGA può estrarre le 2 immagini PNG.

Su AROS ho scoperto che stranamente se trascini la tua Icona su Icon Clone "automaticamente" vengono salvate in RAM le 2 Immagini PNG che compongono la tua Icona, vedi video allegato

Le normali Icone DualPNG create da me, se le rinomini .PNG poi saranno visibili e gestibili da tutte le applicazioni come normali immagini PNG.

@AMIGASYSTEM
The icon ...i asked A.I. to create one...i was in hurry and i'm not that good at create it.

Italiano
L'icona l'ho lasciata creare alla intelligenza artificiale...avevo fretta e non sono bravo a crearne.