Sound samples source for Syndicate Wars Fan Expansion.

Syndicate Wars Fan Expansion, alternative binary for the classic Bullfrog game.

Alongside fixes to the game executable code, an updated set of assets is required to use the full potential of the code fixes.

This repository contains the original sound samples and speeches developed by Bullfrog, with additional fixes applied to the files by fan community.

Download the release syndwarsfx-sfx-*.zip file. Copy the extracted SOUND folder to a previous SyndWarsFX installation, replacing the existing files.

To build Syndicate Wars SFX, use the following steps:

1. download sndbanker, place the binary in syndwarsfx-sfx/bin or any folder included in PATH env var.
2. go into the directory with syndwarsfx-sfx source release
3. do autoreconf -if to create build scripts from templates
4. do ./configure to make the build scripts find required dependencies
5. do make to build release versions of data files
6. do make install to copy the files into syndwarsfx installation folder

You should now have the latest DAT sound banks in your installation folder.

Here are specific commands required to build the sfx on Ubuntu linux.

Download the syndwarsfx-sfx source release, and extract it somewhere.

Also download latest release of the sndbanker, and extract the binary into bin sub-folder of the place with syndwarsfx-sfx. If you've downloaded the .zip to syndwarsfx-sfx folder, you can just go there and run:

unzip -j -d ./bin/ sndbanker-*-ubuntu.zip

Being still in the syndwarsfx-sfx folder, generate build scripts from templates using autotools:

autoreconf -ivf

Next, proceed with the build steps; we will do that in a separate folder.

mkdir -p release; cd release
../configure
make V=1

The V=1 variable makes make print each command it executes, which makes diagnosing issues easier.

You can use make install to add the files to your installation, or copy them to a new folder from which you may copy them manually.

To copy output files to a pkg folder, creating proper sub-folders for release, use:

make V=1 DESTDIR=$PWD/pkg install

That's it, now you have the DAT sound banks ready.

That's all. See more documentation in SyndWarsFX repo.