4 PUZZLES, GAMES, Collection od Puzzles under X Window The collection includes: SLIDING BLOCK PUZZLES xcubes: expanded 15 puzzle ( xtriangles: same complexity as 15 puzzleD xhexagons: 2 modes: one ridiculously easy, one harder than 15 puzzle ROTATIONAL 3D PUZZLES , hold down control key to move whole puzzle; letters that represent colors can be changed in mono-mode 6 xrubik: a nxnxn Erno Rubik's Cube(tm) (or Magic Cube)/ auto-solves 2x2x2 and 3x3x3 (non-orient mode) D xpyraminx: a nxnxn Uwe Meffert's Pyraminx(tm) (and Senior Pyraminx),M a tetrahedron with Period 2, Period 3, and Combined cut modes 7 and it also has a sticky mode to simulate a Halpern's ' Tetrahedron or a Pyraminx Tetrahedron C xoct: a nxnxn Uwe Meffert's Magic Octahedron (or Star Puzzler) and < Trajber's Octahedron with Period 3, Period 4, and Combined. cut modes and it also includes a sticky modeC xskewb: a Meffert's Skewb (or Pyraminx Cube), a cube with diagonal ; cuts, each face is cut with a diamond shape ? xdino: a Triangle - 4 Cube - Dinosaur, (or Triangle - 4 Cube - = 6 Colors) a cube with different diagonal cuts, each face is < cut with a "X" with Period 3 corner turning, Period 2 edge, turning (Bosch's Cube), and Combined modesF xmball: a variable cut Masterball(tm), variable number of latitudinalN and longitudinal cuts on a sphere, where the longitudinal cuts, permit only 180 degree turns - COMBINATION ROTATIONAL AND SLIDING 3D PUZZLES * hold down shift key to move whole puzzle; letters that represent colors can be changed in mono-mode , xmlink: a nxm Erno Rubik's Missing Link(tm) Future directions:K Sorry about the lack of auto-solvers, but I would rather write the puzzle than the tedious solution.< Currently the saved files are cryptic (not intentionally).M Also xmlink and xmball need better algorithms for drawing sectors than just 2 a series of arcs. If you know of any, tell me. L The rest of the platonic solids (the dodecahedron and the icosahedron), asK well as Square-1(tm), seem too hard for me. (Square-1, by the way, was & the hardest puzzle I ever solved).M A combined xrubik 2x2x2 and xskewb (Longridge's Super Skewb) is possible as = well but xskewb as it stands, seems hard enough (for me). K A Billion Barrel would be nice but only with a auto-solver (the puzzle is - too hard (I confess, I never solved it)). B A Panex Puzzle with a Tower of Hanoi mode would be nice as well. G xrubik is currently the only one in this collection with a auto-solver. = X Window Puzzles port under OpenVMS: Nov 1995 # =================================== H Puzzle programs were already ported under OpenVMS, I have only made some# adjustments to the make procedures: O Each program has its own MAKE.COM procedure to compile, as previously, with VAX E C on VAX platform. I have added automatic DECW/Motif 1.2/1.1 support. M Each program has now a MAKE_DECC.COM procedure to compile with DEC C compiler M on VAX platform and a MAKE_AXP.COM procedure to compile under Alpha platform. ; All references to DEC/TCPIP libraries (aka UCX) are removed + Each program has now an .HLP VMS help file. Ressource files: --------------- L Each program has an PROGRAM.DAT ressource file. You can either copy it underL yout home directory (SYS$LOGIN) or under a system location for a system-wide definition: C $ copy program.dat sys$common:[decw$defaults.user]* /lo/prot=(w:re) Exe and obj provided -------------------- & VAX : VMS 5.5-2 , VAX C 3.2, Motif 1.1( Alpha: VMS 6.1-1H2, DEC C 5.0, Motif 1.2 Enjoy, ) Patrick MOREAU - CENA/Athis-Mons - FRANCE pmoreau@cena.dgac.fr moreau_p@decus.decus.fr
