Hey dudes, anyone use Ambroshia? Marisa G updated a linux install of the game but modern libstdc++ breaks some of it. I've finally gotten the ambconfig binary to work. Anyone interested here? I'm happy to share it if anyone uses it.

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Hey dudes, anyone use Ambroshia? Marisa G updated a linux install of the game but modern libstdc++ breaks some of it. I've finally gotten the ambconfig binary to work. Anyone interested here? I'm happy to share it
if anyone uses it.

For sure, I'm interested.

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For sure, I'm interested.

Dude, are you on discord? I'll email you for now, trying to figure out
easiest way to communicate.

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For sure, I'm interested.

I'll just do a basic writeup for now.

First head here and grab the bundle: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ambroshia-linux-bundle/

Unarchive it somewhere and follow the install instructions. This assumes you have Ubuntu or Debian (or a derivative) and have multilib enabled. It's important to install the lib included to have the game work.

However, you'll note that trying to run './ambconfig' fails:
Fatal error: glibc detected an invalid stdio handle
Aborted (core dumped)

You'll have to install and configure this to use an older libstdc++5 library.

sudo apt install libstdc++-5-dev
sudo apt install libstdc++-5-dev:i386

Note that trying to run the binary still fails because it isn't looking for
our newly installed libs. You can confirm by using 'ldd' to see it's pointing at libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

Use patchelf to point to our newly installed libs:

patchelf --replace-needed libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 libstdc++.so.5 ambconfig

And...now it works :)

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Dude, are you on discord? I'll email you for now, trying to figure out easiest way to communicate.

We use Zulip for work (we have a private installation of it). That is enough
of a chat client as it for me. I will netmail you my cell number. Texting me usually gets the quickest response. It is how I communicate with Jack Phlash and others who I am proud to call friends. You are also on that list.

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Re: Ambroshia
By: ryan to All on Fri Mar 27 2020 12:13 pm

Anyone interested here? I'm happy to share it if
anyone uses it.

Count me in too if you would!

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sudo apt install libstdc++-5-dev
sudo apt install libstdc++-5-dev:i386

this all worked except this should be libstdc++-5 and libstdc++-5:i386, but thanks so much this got my ambconfig up and rolling. Now if i can just
figure out why the quests lock it up...

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this all worked except this should be libstdc++-5 and libstdc++-5:i386, but thanks so much this got my ambconfig up and rolling. Now if i can just figure out why the quests lock it up...

Yeah, that's super weird! I'm not sure. Stupid question, but are the permissions set appropriately?

I grabbed all the quests from Marisa G's archive of the game for linux. Is
that where you got them? Maybe the ones you have need the linefeeds changed
to be compatible with linux?

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Ambroshia is still doing weird things for me. I deleted all the quests that weren't in the quest pack, those at least seem to run. But lately it's been popping up and saying that maintenance hasn't been run and to do
AmbLaunch.exe /MAINTENANCE or something like that.

It was doing auto maintenance fine before. I wonder if this is related to
the cracked lib or something else on my machine...

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It was doing auto maintenance fine before. I wonder if this is related
to the cracked lib or something else on my machine...

Hmm I don't think so, it was a pretty straightforward crack as the symbols hasn't been stripped from either of the library binaries. I haven't look at
it in awhile but I can have a look at it and see if anything could be interfering.

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It was doing auto maintenance fine before. I wonder if this is related
to the cracked lib or something else on my machine...

Cracked lib?

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It was doing auto maintenance fine before. I wonder if this is relat to the cracked lib or something else on my machine...

Cracked lib?

I cracked the Linux and Windows libraries to get rid of the registration requirement a little while ago.

Which reminds me that I should get you a customized The Pit binary. I checked around and couldn't find anything surrounding multinode files. It's possible that it just needs to be set read-only by the included util to prevent it
from being deleted for whatever reason.

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I cracked the Linux and Windows libraries to get rid of the registration requirement a little while ago.

Ah, gotcha. I was able to register it...in 2008. hehe. Let me know if my key data might help with reverse engineering a keygen or something.

Which reminds me that I should get you a customized The Pit binary. I checked around and couldn't find anything surrounding multinode files. It's possible that it just needs to be set read-only by the included
util to prevent it from being deleted for whatever reason.

Yes please :) Feel free to gmail me. Thanks again man. And I'm not sure I'm tracking what you mean by multinode files being set to read only, but in any case, count me in.

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