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- Short: China Challenge III
- Author: Dirk Hoffmann, Gunther Nikl <gnikl@informatik.uni-rostock.de>
- Uploader: kas@mink.ping.dk (Klaus Alexander Seistrup)
- Type: game/think
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- China Challenge III
- -------------------
-
- Written 1991 by
- Dirk Hoffmann
-
- Rewritten 1993 by
- Gunther Nikl
-
- This program is Freeware !
-
-
-
- New features of Version III:
- ----------------------------
-
- This is an improved version of the game China Challenge. The original program
- by Dirk Hoffmann lacked some features and disturbed the mutitasking heavily.
- China Challenge III - short called CC3 - is a completly rewritten version of
- the old program. CC2 was written in 'C' but CC3 had been written in assembler
- for shortness.
-
- Below all changes made since release 2:
-
- Fixed: The busy wait loop for menu handling has been removed. Also the dircet
- hardware access to control the mouse events has been removed. Now the
- event handling belongs to commodores programming guidelines. It is
- totally multitasking friendly.
-
- Fixed: The two-screen technique has been removed. CC3 uses an invisible screen
- for its graphic rendering. Then the blitter moves the whole date to the
- real screen.
-
- New: The sound replay uses now the audio device instead of directly hitting
- the hardware. The sound file is NOT nessecary to play the game unlike
- in CC2. There exists a menu item 'Play Music' so you can switch the
- music on or off. If the sound stuff couldn't be initialized the item
- is anavailable. Music play can be controlled at startup see below.
-
- New: The intro picture has been included in the program. When CC3 starts
- this picture will be displayed and all other initilization stuff
- follows. If you don't want this picture you can switch it off at
- startup see below.
-
- New: CC3 supports two CLI and Workbench arguments to control the program
- at startup.
-
- NOMUSIC - This argument disables the music. However CC3 tries to
- initialize its audio stuff and to load the sample. If this
- fails the music is disabled during the whole game play.
- Otherwise only the sound output is disabled so you can
- switch the music on later. By default the music is on.
-
- NOINTRO - This argument disables the intro picture. By default you
- will see this picture and all initialization stuff is done
- at this time. This picture shall only show CC3 is alive
- while loading the sample from a floppy disk. If you don't
- want the picture suppress it with this argument.
-
- NOTE: When started from workbench CC3 needs the 'icon.library' to
- examine the tooltypes. If the library couldn't be opened it
- will use its internal defaults. With the kick 1.2/1.3 icon
- library the equation sign '=' at the end of a tooltype is
- nessecary !!!
-
- New: For loading and saving the filerequester of the arp.library is used
- now. So you need this library installed in libs: to use these option
- but this shouldn't cause any propblems I hope.
- Please note that the file structure of a saved game has changed. It is
- no longer an ascii file because the current game state is also saved.
- This was easier to do when saving an binary. Sorry about this.
-
- New: The generation of a dragon is much improved. The new algorithm requires
- always only 120 random numbers instead of about 500 as the old one did.
- So it can be estimate that it is faster than before. The random number
- generator has also changed. Now CC3 uses the Tausworth algorithm for
- creating the random numbers. The full description of this algorithm can
- be found in:
-
- "A Comparision of the Correlation Behavior of Random Number
- Generators for the IBM 360"
- Communication of the ACM 11/1968 page 641-644
-
-
- I want to thank Dirk Hoffmann for the original program and Torsten "Stoffel"
- Christophel for his suggestion to improve the dragon generation to make it
- really random.
-
- You can reach me: gnikl@informatik.uni-rostock.de
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
-
- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 20672 18833 8.8% 20-Oct-93 16:55:20 CC3/CC3
- 7202 3050 57.6% 24-Oct-93 15:18:28 CC3/CC3.doc
- 437 221 49.4% 23-Apr-93 10:58:04 CC3/CC3.doc.info
- 631 312 50.5% 24-Oct-93 15:11:36 CC3/CC3.info
- 532 353 33.6% 13-Sep-93 20:28:30 CC3/Dragon1.cc3
- 532 356 33.0% 13-Sep-93 22:48:46 CC3/Dragon2.cc3
- 532 355 33.2% 24-Sep-93 13:46:38 CC3/Dragon3.cc3
- 532 356 33.0% 26-Sep-93 00:46:20 CC3/Dragon4.cc3
- 532 353 33.6% 03-Oct-93 16:49:50 CC3/Dragon5.cc3
- 104072 88546 14.9% 21-Dec-91 00:52:06 CC3/Sample
- 32011 32011 0.0% 24-Oct-93 15:08:26 CC3/src.lha
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- 167685 144746 13.6% 26-Dec-94 20:04:46 11 files
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