Hi!
This is my first unfinished alpha version of my networked game gama2. It is in some ways the second version of my previous game NetGame. At the moment it supports Linux console (svgalib), X11 (only with shm and 8bpp server mode) and 95. The last one is yet untested and I added the last code without trying it. So be careful.
To compile it:
First you have to compile the LIBRARY MYLIB. Read the readme file in it's
root directory.
ON 95
use DJGPP - thats GNU C/C++ for DOS. You can get it from:
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/ and of course from all it's
mirrors. I recommend the last version. At the moment it's 2.01. Use only 2.xx,
not 1.xxx! After geting it and installing unpack this. You can
try to use LFN (long file names). Do not make install in DOS, it sould run
without it. You must also have the port of svgalib on DOS - get it from
http://wwwbacc.ift.ulaval.ca/~moisemih/svgalib.zip. You must install it also.
BTW: only client works in 95. If I have the time, I'll but ready binaries on
my homepage.
ON Linux you need svgalib (http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs/graphics/svgalib*).
ON X11 you do not need svgalib, just read the NOTE.X11 in MyLib's directory.
When everything has compiled, write make install. The svgalib version on linux must have root privileges. You can remove the s bit of X11 version of game.
chmod -s `which MooZ`
I haven't corrected the security bugs in game. So be careful. Leave it to
public machine at your own risk. Auch, all those buffer overflows and all
that, todays computer security world is quite awful.
Other OSes: they do not work, at least I haven't tryed. I'm sure I make at least server work on some powerful sun stations.
About the game: it's not ready, you can see it. I hope to finish it in autumn. This distribution was made in hurry, I'll make the installing and all the storys smoother and nicer and simpler.
About this distribution: not for playing, not for newbies, just for testing and advertising. And also for great ideas you can give me.
About future: If I make another computer game, I'll make it strategy, duneII style, but will I begin to make it, I don't know. So if anyone wants to join, let me know. Ideas mostly waited.
Indrek Mandre
indrek@warp.edu.ee
http://www.pld.ttu.ee/~indrek