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Missing freepats prevents Python games from running #137

Closed czetie closed 10 years ago

czetie commented 11 years ago

With many of the Python games, when running on Raspbian on Pi, the game shows the startup screen with the "Press a key" message, but when a key is pressed, returns to the launcher menu. If run from a Python interpreter, it can be seen that the problem is caused by failing to open a freepats configuration file. The freepats package is not included by default in the Raspian distribution.

The Raspian distribution should probably address this (eventually) by including freepats so that new users get a smooth experience.

Separately, the Python games should probably handle the missing file more gracefully as this is probably not the only distribution that doesn't include freepats by default.

asb commented 10 years ago

Timidity is installed by default now and this seems to fix the issue.