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-The FPC games docs...
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-The FPC-games are a series of small console games written by Marco van de Voort
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-([email protected]) as demos for the Free Pascal compiler (FPC) and its Run Time
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-Libraries (RTL).
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-SameGame can also use the API for mousecontrol. This because the RTL mouseunit
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-MsMouse only exists under Go32V2. The API mouse routines work with Linux, but
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-have (right now) a problem with GPM version 1.17. Use a different version if you
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-can 1.15 works according to the developpers.
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-Currently the games are
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-- FPCTris (v0.07)
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-- Samegame (v0.02)
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-Copyright
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----------
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-The source code is donated to the FPC project. The FPC project distributes all
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-sources under a modified GNU license (much like the so called LGPL) see
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-copying.fpc.
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-Future
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-- Some cards games (BlackJack, Poker, and two Dutch games called "Rikken" and
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- "Toepen") are in preparation
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-- A server for Linux, so that Linux clients can connect to it for multiplayer
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- services. One server for all games, otherwise small games like this clog up
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- the number of free ports ;-)
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- This is also important because most of the cardsgames (except BlackJack)
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- can't be played against the computer, the AI is to difficult. (Poker is maybe
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- also possible)
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-FPCTRIS
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-Fpctris is a tetris class game, originally designed
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-- to be distributed with FPC as Crt demo,
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-- Keeping possible integration in the IDE in mind (would add 15k or so)
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-- Svgalib version etc etc. Anyway, the engine is quite platform independant,
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- and can be ported to different platforms (also TUI,GUI) if needed.
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-The current versions are still under development, but already playable even
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-under telnet.
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-TODO list:
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-- (difficult, also interesting for Crt and IDE), get more terminals supported under
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- Linux. Specially I don't want to issue the escape sequence that rapes your console
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- to an IBM compat charset. Linux users don't like that. (temporarily solved by
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- doing this only on user request)
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-- (Linux) Sockets multiplayer client system :-). Have actually started on it,
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- but are getting nowhere. The server will be separate and support more than
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- one game. So you get one port for several games.
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-- Setup screen ((create) alternate blocks etc)
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-- Commandline options/config file. (.rctetris per user :-))
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-KNOWN BUGS:
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- - Upperrow not used with some chars. (Requires shifting up). Possibly related
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- that very rarely game over appears when there's still one or two rows to go.
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- (Since the 5x5 version some of this has been removed. If you get a L-shaped
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- character and immediately rotate, the upper line is used)
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- - Biggest problem at the moment is the delay procedure and its init on machines
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- under heavy load. Can't change that though. Only under heavy load, so a
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- less big problem on heavy machines.
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- - Selection of colors don't take screen attribs into account. So figures can
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- seem to disappear on weird TTY's or 4Dos people using strange ANSI prompts.
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-History:
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-v0.00 First version with working gameplay, created during the Brussels meeting.
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- published on tflily.
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-v0.01 Some work done, first version on my page. Most improvements done in
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- Brussels, to many to name here.
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-v0.02 - Got rid of binary encoding, and calculating shapes etc when a new figure
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- is created. All is done on startup now. Adding characters is simpler now.
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- - A lot of parameters are variables instead of constants.
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- - Experienced tetrissers press "e" once.
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- - Colors! Linux has the color default off (press "C")
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-v0.03 (Only used on on stack, not on web)
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- - Keep on pushing arrow down no longer freezes FPCTris.
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- - Basic level system implemented.
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- - High ascii background in color mode.
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-v0.04 (Only used on on stack, not on web)
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- - The push-down arrow fix removed the possibility to move the character
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- after arrow-down, which I liked much. Fixed. # of possible moves after
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- arrow-down also adjustable.
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- - Tried compiling with W32 compiler. RTE 216 (which is gpf I believe)
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- Is Crt unit. Hello World "Use crt" also gpf's.
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- - Removed the first, forgotten bugfix for the hickup problem. Now the
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- "feel" of the game is ok. When you push down, it goes down, but you
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- have the change to do one more move.
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-v0.05 (Never used anywere, backup version before movement to 5x5 figures)
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- - More Score info
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- - Help possiblity
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- - Highscores. (also saved to file, and searched in the path)
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- - Entering highscores uses inputstr. Size boosts to 1200 lines. Yuck.
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- - Most functionality now implemented.
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-v0.06 (To Peter)
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- - 5x5 figures including "The Cross". Worked almost rightaway, but figures
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- rotate a bit weird.
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- - Better rotation 5x5 system. Only smallest square around figure is
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- rotated.
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- - Better scores. Incl quadratic (progressive is a better word) scores for
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- multiple lines. Now it does matter if you remove 2 x 1 line or 2
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- lines at once.
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- - Some small other fixes.
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- - 'q' is also exit.
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-v0.07 - Highscore table routines moved to gameunit. Gameunit.pp now required.
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-SameGame.
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-Principle copied from KDE/GNOME.
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-The principle: The playfield is a grid consisting out of 3 colors.
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-You can mark a certain spot on the playfield, and all adjacent grid-cubes
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-(horizontally or vertically) will also get marked by the computer.
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-When you press the left button, and two or more cubes are marked, the marked
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-cubes will disappear, and the playfield will colapse to the bottom left.
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-This can be repeated until there are no more agregates. If the field is empty
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-then, you receive a bonus.
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-The trick is that the score for each disappearing aggregate of cubes is more
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-than linear (0.25* quadratic right now) dependant on the number of cubes it
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-contains.
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-This means that removing 5 times an aggregate of 2 cubes will result in a far
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-smaller score than one aggregate of 10 cubes. ( 5*2^2 < 10^2)
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-TODO:
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-[none]
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-BUGS:
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-- Maybe better algoritm for initial filling of playfield.
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-- Runtime sizable playfield.
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-HISTORY:
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-v0.01 :
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- - Initial version.
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- - Slightly improved initial algoritm.
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-v0.02 - Using gameunit. GPM support via API, but whole thing GPF's under Linux,
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- but works under Go32V2.
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- - Highscores,helpscreen, all small things that come with a decent finishing
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- of the concept
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marco