We uploaded 0.2.1 RC2 in November, but unfortunately we haven’t gotten any feedback on it at all. If you tried this version, please let us know if it works for you. You can contact us at feedback AT dreamchess DOT org. Thanks!
DreamChess 0.2.1 release candidate 2 contains a number of new bug fixes. Most importantly, it contains new code to fix a problem some configurations were having with selecting chess pieces. If you’re seeing a regression because of this new code, e.g. DreamChess fails to start up or you can’t select chess pieces with the mouse, please contact us at feedback AT dreamchess DOT org
Download (source code): DreamChess 0.2.1 RC2
DreamChess 0.2.1 release candidate 1 is now available. We’d appreciate any reports about build errors or bugs, you can contact us at feedback AT dreamchess DOT org
Download (source code): DreamChess 0.2.1 RC1
A few days ago we were contacted by Martin Deisenroth. He kindly offered to help us investigate the spinning chess board issue in Linux. It turned out that in his case the problem is caused by an accelerometer in his HP laptop, that is being reported as a joystick by the operating system. DreamChess has joystick support, a leftover from the original DreamCast version. This accelerometer is continuously sending events to DreamChess, causing the board to spin. If you’re also experiencing this issue, you could try the following workaround:
Run DreamChess like this:
SDL_JOYSTICK_DEVICE=/dev/null dreamchess
or, for a more permanent solution, put this in your ~/.profile file and reboot:
export SDL_JOYSTICK_DEVICE=/dev/null
A big thanks to Martin for his help!
Several linux users have reported that the chess board in DreamChess keeps spinning around on its own. We’d really like to fix this bug, but unfortunately we cannot reproduce this problem. We’re looking for someone to help us out with this, so if you have the spinning board problem and are able to build DreamChess from source, please contact us (feedback at dreamchess.org). Thanks!