THE GAME

Taruli' is another version of the Concentration game. A little game inspired me by AmigaTration.

REQUIREMENTS

This program was developed with Qt/X11 Free Edition v. 3.1.0

To compile this software, you need:

Qt 3.0.x library (Qt >= 3.0.5 is highly recommended)
Qt developement packages (or equivalent), containing Qt include files.
You have to export the QTDIR environment variable accordingly to the directory where Qt libs are installed. e.g. export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3

HOW TO INSTALL

To install taruli-x.y.tar.gz:

$ tar xzvf taruli-x-y.tar.gz        # untar and gunzip
$ cd ./taruli/                      # change to source directory
$ qmake                             # generate the Makefile
$ make                              # compile...

$ su -c "make install"              # install

(root password)

If you have problems building this program a statically compiled binary: http://members.ferrara.linux.it/calicant/taruli/taruli-bin-0.2.tar.gz

CUSTOMIZING IMAGES

By default, "make install" will install the package's files in "/usr/local/taruli/"

Gameboard tiles are in "/usr/local/taruli/imgs/". You can set another dir by the environment variable TARULI_IMAGES_DIR (e.g. export TARULI_IMAGES_DIR=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/) Taruli scans for *.jpg or *.png files (max size 50x50).

Images included in this archive are copyright (C) by Everaldo (www.everaldo.com) and are part of the KDE Crystal Icon Theme (http://everaldo.com/crystal/).

Taruli scans the same directory for gameboard backgrounds (You probably remember a Rebus of an old TV game show called "Concentration").

You can add your gameboard background images to this directory, providing that an image brackground name begins with "tarulignd_" e.g.:

tarulignd_background1.jpg
tarulignd_background2.jpg

are valid names.

Background image size is rescaled to fit in gameboard size (tipically ~ 300x300 in a 6x6 board)

iOnly 6 Tux images are included; they comes from http://www.nd.edu/~ljordan/linux/contents.html (thanks to Elizabeth Jordan)

RUNNING

To run it:
type "./taruli" in a terminal (default gameboard's size is 6x6). You may want to add to your PATH the directory where taruli is installed (default: /usr/local/taruli/)

taruli n
changes the the size of the game, where n ranges from 6 to 12 (e.g. 6, 8, 10, 12)

DISTRIBUTION

This program is distributed under GNU General Public License, if you have questions about that read COPYING file or visit http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html

CHANGELOG

2003-04-23 calicant <calicant@ferrara.linux.it> * taruli.pro:thread qt library to solve some building problems * 0.2a release

2003-03-28 calicant <calicant@ferrara.linux.it> * Fixed a layout bug (thanks to Bill Dandreta) * Discovered and fixed a memory leak (valgrind rulez) * Random images for gameboard background * 0.2 release

2003-01-11 calicant <calicant@ferrara.linux.it> * First public release (0.1)

FUTURE (?)

Fixing bugs ;)

The program can be downloaded from:
http://members.ferrara.linux.it/calicant/taruli/

If you have any bug reports or suggestions please write to: calicant@ferrara.linux.it

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