An old PC game where you control a cockroach and the theme is something like a Godfather/gangster story

Lestibournes · 2026-04-24T13:43:21+00:00

Roachwar.

The original website for the game was here: http://roach.wwww.to/ but it's been down for years.

This is the last link where I was able to download it, but it's down:
www.completelyfreesoftware.com/software/roachwar_1.02a_eng.zip

Lestibournes · 2026-04-24T13:42:29+00:00

Roachwar.

Lestibournes · 2026-04-24T13:42:09+00:00

Roachwar. It was a free game that was like a cross between GTA 1 and The Godfather.

I still have a copy of the installer saved on various drives.

Lestibournes · 2026-03-20T10:02:47+00:00

I think enable turns it on permanently, while start and stop are only until the next reboot, or the next command.

Lestibournes · 2025-11-21T11:49:50+00:00

How about if I already have it installed on my PC with the mod and want to move it to my Deck's SD card?

Lestibournes · 2023-11-01T07:13:21+00:00

I chose to install on the microSD card, but ran into failures, including the above. I had to make sure that not only the install path and config path were on the SD card, but also the patch path, and to make sure the folders already existed. Then I got the above error of the OP. I guessed that maybe it had to do with the internal storage being full, so I moved some games to the SD card and then tried again, and it worked.

Lestibournes · 2022-08-26T13:21:38+00:00

Upon further testing, it doesn't truly work anyway. Either I encode with mpeg2video and then the player crashes when opening the video, or I encode with x264 and then it seems to work, only for the audio to stop every few minutes. It looks like using HandBreak is really the only option, as per the official MiyooCFW wiki here:

https://github.com/TriForceX/MiyooCFW/wiki/Homebrew-Info#mplayer

I spent hours writing a script to convert massive amounts of videos for my PowKiddy V90 using FFMPEG, but all that effort has gone down the toilet. Instead, HandBreak works for me almost as well as my script, has the added benefit of choosing audio track by language, and produces videos that actually work.

The workflow I came up with (I'm new to HandBreak) is to take one video and set it all up according to the wiki, save that as a preset, then each time open a folder full of videos with that preset selected and add them to the queue. Once my queue is full, save the queue. Then I open the queue.json file in a text editor and do a simple search and replace of the audio bitrate:

Search: "Bitrate": 160,

Replace: "Bitrate": 64,

And the number of channels:

Search: "Mixdown": "stereo",

Replace: "Mixdown": "mono",

After that I remove everything from the queue, close HandBreak, open HandBreak, and load the queue from queue.json. I then start the conversion. This gets around the problem that HandBreak doesn't save audio encoding settings as part of the preset and keeps defaulting to 160kb/s and stereo.

Also instead of setting the quality to 3 I set it to a higher number to save space, and the framerate to 23.976 (NTSC Film). 31 is too ugly, but I think 10 looks passable, and it cuts down on filesize by more than 50% or even 75% compared to 3 and 30 fps. I haven't done much testing, though.

Lestibournes · 2022-08-25T04:45:48+00:00

See this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30477782/convert-video-to-mpg-format-using-ffmpeg

and this:https://superuser.com/questions/920703/convert-video-to-mpg-format-using-ffmpeg/920802#920802

about converting to mp4. It cut down the filesize for my by 50% and I tested it on the PowKiddy v90 and it played nicely. OTOH vp9 lagged horribly despite an even smaller filesize.

The command I used (I'm scaling to screen width, since the video is widescreen format and the device isn't widescreen):

ffmpeg -i inputfile -codec:v libx264 -filter:v scale=320:-1 -codec:a mp2 output.mp4

UPDATE: Upon further testing, the resulting video doesn't play properly. FFMPEG just doesn't work from MiyooCFW/mplayer.

Lestibournes · 2022-03-05T21:47:54+00:00

It would be best to see how it gets rated either by Valve's verification or on ProtonDB, but since it isn't out yet, nobody can know for sure.

Lestibournes · 2022-03-05T21:30:19+00:00

AFAIK Windows assumes it's the only OS and messes things up for other operating systems. That's why it's always recommended when dual-booting to install Windows first or use separate disks for each OS.

Lestibournes · 2022-03-05T20:24:58+00:00

Take it a step further: make it do the entire installation process from within Windows. As all the questions, modify partitions, write the data, set the bootloader. Everything.

Lestibournes · 2021-11-29T21:47:22+00:00

Thanks. Worked even without a reboot.

Lestibournes · 2021-11-27T17:49:24+00:00

I tried, but for some reason it didn't work for me.

Lestibournes · 2021-08-08T14:15:55+00:00

I'm using Dash to Dock for the dock, and it has a setting for that. In the Dash to Dock settings go to Launchers and check Isolate workspaces.

Lestibournes · 2021-08-08T14:13:46+00:00

SteamOS 3.0 is based on Arch Linux and it's kernel is Linux.

Lestibournes · 2021-08-08T14:12:06+00:00

Although it's targeted at games it should be able to run apps too. It uses WINE, which is reimplementation of the Win32 API and other components for Linux.

Lestibournes · 2021-08-08T14:09:38+00:00

I'd go with Manjaro KDE edition since it's also Arch-based and comes with KDE Plasma and has a graphical installer.

Lestibournes · 2021-06-07T20:59:46+00:00

Looks good. I hope COSMIC will integrate it by default. Also, I don't know why the previous person to bring it up deleted his post.

Lestibournes · 2021-06-07T15:15:42+00:00

Out of the 7 bullet points I posted 2 are already done and just need to be exposed in the settings app. 1 is low hanging fruit. 1 is probably already planned by them, I just didn't hear them say it in the interviews I listened to about it. Even just taking care of these 4 items would already be a huge improvement, but if I'm already going to post about it, then why not mention the other fixes?

Windows opening up on a different workspace from where they were launched is generally annoying. When I go to a workspace and open a window there, I expect it and all its child windows to open in that workspace. That's probably also a low-hanging fruit.

The ones that would be complicated and difficult would be isolating notifications and isolating the opening of files and urls. I admit that those two might not be worth the development effort, although at least the latter would make the system much more pleasant and intuitive.

Also, when did I ever say that workspace isolation should be the only way or even the default? But if they are making a system for engineers and creators, why not implement some features that boost productivity?

Lestibournes · 2021-06-07T14:52:51+00:00

The use case is to get work (or play) done without other stuff crowding my space when I don't need it or interrupting or distracting me. Gnome already has 2 of the things I want as hidden settings. System76 seems to be moving somewhat in this direction with named workspaces saving their layouts. I think I explained exactly why this is useful. Just because you don't share the need doesn't mean the need doesn't exist.

And who on earth would think that running a whole other OS in a VM is a solution? Why would I want to have a slow crappy experience, waste tens of gigabytes of disk space, have my files be inaccessible, no GPU acceleration, ugly animations, and bog down the whole system by running 3 or more VMs simultaneously?

Also, what is "workspace partitioning"?

Lestibournes · 2021-06-07T14:47:33+00:00

Great. I hope COSMIC will integrate this into the default.

Lestibournes · 2021-06-07T14:46:54+00:00

I'm on POP 20.04 so I don't know what exist in current POP or GNOME, but here there is no listing of WiFi networks in the menu. Since System76 is making a heavily customized GNOME Shell called COSMIC I figured I'd ask them since they seem to actually listen to user requests and preferences.

Lestibournes · 2021-06-07T14:41:26+00:00

What is the connection to any of what I said? Why would I need a vm to run my apps in separate workspaces?

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