Download and Install The Bub's Brothers

Instructions for release 1.3





On Windows

That's it! If you want very slightly better graphics (translucent bubbles), you may want to consider downloading and installing Pygame. This might also be a tad faster, depending on your hardware. You can choose the sound and display drivers to use in the Display and sound settings link on the main page in BubBob.

Client-only: if you don't want to download the big (11.9MB) release for Windows and are only interested in connecting to a Bub & Bros server that someone else started, you can get the smaller "client only" pack bubbros-1.3-win-clientonly.zip from the release. (This is only recommended if the connexion between you and the Bub & Bros server is high-speed, because your client will download all the graphics and sound from the game server while playing.)

Bug: on Windows XP, it seems that Bub & Bros does not work if installed in a path with spaces in it, like "c:\documents and settings\someuser\Desktop\bubbros". Move it to a path like "c:\games\bubbros".




On MacOS X

That's it!

Client-only: if you don't want to download the big (11MB) release and the big (35MB) kitchensink and are only interested in connecting to a Bub & Bros server that someone else started, you can get the tiny "client only" pack bubbros-1.3-clientonly.zip from the release. (This is only recommended if the connexion between you and the Bub & Bros server is high-speed, because your client will download all the graphics and sound from the game server while playing.)




Linux (and others X-Window Unix)

That's it!

Client-only: if you don't want to download the big release (8.5MB in bz2, 11MB in gz) and are only interested in connecting to a Bub & Bros server that someone else started, you can get the tiny "client only" pack bubbros-1.3-clientonly.zip from the release. (This is only recommended if the connexion between you and the Bub & Bros server is high-speed, because your client will download all the graphics and sound from the game server while playing.)




On iPAQ

Huh?

Yes, it works just fine on a networked iPAQ under Linux :-) (It probably runs just fine almost anywhere, actually.) Here is how you can have a client (display part) on your iPAQ. You need to install Python and the PyGTK bindings using the regular package manager tools, and then all you need is the bubbros-1.3-clientonly.zip from the release.

Start a server on some other machine, and then run the client on the iPAQ with
cd bubbros-1.3/display
python Client.py --display=gtk --zoom=50% servername

Adjust the zoom factor to fit your screen.




If something goes wrong, see the technical documentation.

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