BomberClone

BomberClone 0.11.9, an Atomic Bomberman clone (SDL 1.2 on sdl12-compat, up to 8 local or network players), is Debian’s 0.11.9-9 with two patches of ours. Its played session (2026-10-26, about 5 minutes against bots) had a 50 fps median, no crash, the picture right (4:3 with bars at the sides) and the sound effects and music heard; the gamepad works in matches but not in the menus.

Packages and patches

bomberclone, bomberclone-data (0.11.9-9+ps3.N, packages/bomberclone), replacing Debian’s; in no suite.

• 0001: main() returned after gfx_shutdown() without snd_shutdown() or SDL_Quit(), so SDL_mixer’s audio thread was still running while exit() ran the libraries’ destructors. With SDL 1.2 provided by sdl12-compat (over SDL2 and SDL3, as in Debian now) the thread then called into torn-down state, and the game segfaulted on every quit, from the menu or on SIGTERM. Now it closes the audio and SDL first.
• 0002: full screen by default (it started in a 640x480 window on the desktop); the saved config and the Options menu still change it.

How it performs

Played (rules 2.0, Mesa ps3.860, kernel .786, bomberclone ps3.758): 50 fps median, 1% low 28, 2.1 s of stutter a minute with a 2.4 s longest frame, a 16.5 s load, 62 MB RSS. The sound: 219 xruns, one audible dropout in the play (9 more around the screenshots, the recorder’s own). The player quit from the menu, cleanly. The played test (rating/test.toml) sets its settings file ~/.bomberclone.cfg aside per session; the recipe (benchmark/recipe.sh) is for sessions only, no benchmark.

Known problems

• The gamepad works in matches but not in the menus: BomberClone’s menus read the keyboard only (as on the PC).
• The HUD text is small at 1080p (12 px: Player1, Bombs, Range, Speed at the top).