The Best of Select: Games 4/CD_1.iso/games/mines/mines.all

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Mines
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- this is a list of all known Mines games for any operating system or
shell that can run programs (in their own specific format).
. Macintosh
. HP48
. Windows 3.x
. UNIX
. OS/2 Presentation Manager
. DOS
. Atari ST
. Amiga
. VAX/VMS

- it was originally made only for my own personal use, but I'm releasing
it now hoping it might prove useful to others, too, and that I'd be
notified if there's something missing

- the latest version always companies Minerva - The Minefield Stomping Game
. ftp.funet.fi:/pub/msdos/games/puzzle/mines10e.zip
. Jouni Miettunen ([e-mail])

- FYI all flamers: IMHO an operating system can individually operate a
hardware system, anything else is a program for some operating system.
Windows 3.x and GEOS need DOS to be able to operate, ergo they are not
operating systems. You might think that I'm wrong in my opinion, but at
least I'm happy in my ignorance and would like to stay that way.

    Knowledge is not happiness, and science
    But an exchange of ignorance for that
    Which is another kind of ignorance.
                Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

Macintosh
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MacMines 2.01 (May 1993)
- Cary Torkelson
  3006 Cherry Hill Drive
  Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
- Shareware USD15
- 16 colors/black and white
- clicks
. Super-Click by clicking on a number
  if not safe will keep surrounding squares down as long as mouse pressed
. Option-Click to mark a square with a question mark
. Shift-Click to mark a square as being a mine
  can step on marked square (and blowup)
. Click to reveal a square
- start anywhere, guaranteed NOT to loose on first move (safe start)
- pause, field will be covered
- digitized sounds, explosion shakes the whole field !!!
. reverses colors 3-5 times, could do rotate palette..
- crater: don't contain a mine, but doesn't give mine info - dead zone
. all are clearly marked as craters at startup
- moving mine: mine moves to another (hidden) place at periodic intervals
. only one mine keeps moving
. sound signal notifies change
. minefield values are updated (something weird here..)
- randomizer: when stepped on this square all mines are relocated
. not counted as mine
. SHOOOOMMM sound effect while field is covered and reshown left-right
- custom: high scores are not kept
- statistics: best 10 scores and level stats are kept
. number of attempts, number of successes, average time per success
. custom shows stats for Easy level
. too small buttons, which don't look like buttons and don't operate equally
- options dialog has pop-up menus to select + defaults button

Minesweeper 1.3 (May 1993)
- Matthew Flatt ([e-mail])
- MS Windows Minesweeper clone for Mac !?!
- bombs 15-85%
- score: TimeLeft*Bombs/sqrt(Tiles)

Mine Sweeper 1.0 (1991)
- William Edward Woody ([e-mail])
- free
- safe start, safe superclick on value

Bombs 2.2 (1991)
- Christer Ericson ([e-mail])
- freeware (postcard)
- Best Ever About-dialog
. animation, sounds, postcard
- superclick: option-click (unsafe)
- realistic explosion sound

Mine Field 1.0.1 (1992)
- John Lindal ([e-mail])
- shareware USD5
- has Print menu item..
- unsafe start

Mines 1.01 (12 Aug 88)
- Daniel Griscom
- free: Mach2 Forth source available
- Tom Anderson's Mines ported to Mac
- pathfinder (top-left to bottom-right)
- can step on any known square, but only to neighbouring unknown square

HexMines 1.2 (1992)
- Ingemar Ragnemalm ([e-mail])
- freeware (USD10 for Bachman + others eg. Classic Daleks)
- field squares have 6 edges (hexagonal grid)
. honeycomb in 8-bit color (Color Quickdraw)
. detects hex edges, keeps updating screen all the time mouse is pressed
- "Find the path" and "Find all mines"
. safe superclick

YAMS! - Yet another Minesweeper 1.0 (1993)
- Heinrich Schnermann
- MS Windows clone (a good one)
- Shareware USD15
- language: German, English, French
- HUGE minefield value numbers
- safe superclick on value (w/option)
- save and load preferences

Mine v1.0 (June 1992)
- Ted Lowery ([e-mail])
- freeware (postcard), code for USD10 + disk
- MS Windows 3.1 clone

AppleField 1.0 (1993)
- Lorenzo Cangiano
- doesn't check for used system (unimplemented trap)
- you die when you find an apple!! (it's a Windows clone :)

Mine Field 1.0.1 (1992)
- John Lindal

Mind Mines v1.2.2
- freeware
- Windows clone

Saddam's Revenge 1.1a (1991)
- David B. Zwiefelhofer
- Shareware USD5 (USD3 Gamer Project coupon) or postcard
- Windows clone
- lots of funny tricks (buggy, crashes both Plus and fx)
. extremely cool startup in color (About-dialog)
. cow which says "Moo"
. damaged cursor (4 different)
. end: Saddam+laugh or Skull
. uncovered field has texture (several)
- BIG squares and numbers
. largest field has very little squares - changes according field size

PolyMine 1.04 (1993)
- S.T.Han (sth@@eclx.psu.edu)
- Shareware "at least one US dollar", USD10 will get diskette w/more games
- sloooow (Hypercard stack converted to application ??)
- options
. grid: normal    (surrounded by 8 blocks)
    staggered (6 blocks) (every other column shifted up by half a square)
    random    (6-8 blocks) (some columns up)
. mine: 10,15,20,25,30 %
. hole: 5,10,15 % (block that cannot be checked - no mine)
. default button and save (as default?)
- next game w/more mines when you solve one field
- no safe start, but can restart same game
- safe superclick, but clicks only at mouseDown
- fixed amount of flags, if they end you have to find false and replace it

MacGrid v2.0.2 (1993)
- Erik Schwiebert ([e-mail])
- freeware (postcard)
- used to be MacMines, but renamed due Cary Torkelson's earlier MacMines
- unsafe start, pause (hides screen), restart same field
- find all safe + flag all mines
- speedy clicks: system remembers all clicks while preparing new field

Super Mines Demo 1.0 (Dec 1992)
- Callisto Corporation (CompuServe 71302,3374)
. first ever commercial mines game (demo) I've seen
- mini miner == normal hurry-and-find-all-or-die mines (not in demo)
- the main game - SuperMines:
- extremely army orientated
- 4 difficulty level in playing (easy start == 2 levels in demo)
- safe starting place given (randomly?)
- several field layouts, 4 different at a time in use, 2 paths connect each
. squares (or regular field w/blocks made of squares)
. hex
. totally weird
. several different layouts made w/misc size blocks (very hard!)
- several minesweepers to use
. start w/5, one extra for each solved field
- scoring points
. 21 US army ranks from "private" to "General of the Army"
. military promotion after every 5 fields (5*20 == 100 fields to play)
. points in proportion to remaining "fuse" (burns down around field)
. points multiplied by ranks (private == 1, General == 21)
. if fuse burns down, loose minesweeper and restart same field
- high score has no defaults
- show hint (minus 10 * rank points)
. "finds a logically determined sector and flashes a visited sector adjacent
  to that." If no hint -> beep and no points taken
- if fast enough, could find "buried treasure" == extra minesweeper
- field values in white on pastel coloured squares
. hard to tell which is unopened square and which is open without value
- can save and reload a game
- pause covers screen, resumes only via menu
- find-all, mark every mine
- safe superclick only autosteps (hard after using automarking :)
- explosions add a flag on field ?!?

HP48
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Minehunt
- on Equation Library Card
- probably made by Hewlett Packard. Really exist?

Minehunt II turbo (30 Apr 1991)
- [e-mail]
- only binary available (in nic)
- level * 10 == amount of mines

Windows 3.x
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MS Windows Minesweeper
- with MS Windows 3.1
- one of these days I'll go and really check it out..

MineHelp 1.0 (April 26 1992)
- Peter Karrer ([e-mail])
- minehlp1.zip (18095k)
- free, Pascal (TPW) code included
- automatic Windows Minesweeper solving
. checks screen pixel colors to "see" minefield values
. sends MouseDown events to game on-screen

Mines V3.0 - The Minefield Game for Windows 3.0 (1989/1990)
- Ian Heath ([e-mail])
- mines.zip (19032k)
- "program is distributed as-is"
- from top left to bottom right
- "number of mines from 30 (fairly easy) to 160 (almost impossible)"

UNIX
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mines - game of agility for SUNs (1987)
- Tom Anderson
- mines.tar (49152k) (The Original ??)
- pathfinder
- Suntool 3.0 C source

tkmines 1.3 (April 1993)
- Joel Fine ([e-mail])
- free, source included (requires wish and extended Tcl: sprite.berkeley.edu)
- lazy evaluation of neighbour counts
- safe superclick

XVmines v1.0 (March 1993)
- Manolis Lourakis ([e-mail])
- free, C source
- X-Window SunOS4.1.{1,2,3}

Xmines v0.1 (1992)
- Manolis Lourakis ([e-mail])
- later versions renamed as XVmines (see that item)

xminesweep 2.0 patch 01 (Jan 1993)
- Ashley Roll ([e-mail])
- free, C source
- X11R5

xdemineur - Jeu de reflexion sous X, version 1.0 (Jan 1993)
- Marc Baudoin ([e-mail])
- default mines: lines * columns / 4.8
- free, C source
- someone praised this to be the best Windows clone for X

minesM (11 Dec 1992)
- Martin Fouts ([e-mail])
- Motif 1.1 X11R4 C source
- find all
- bitmap/pixel map data

MineSweeper 1.4 (1992)
- Thery Laurent ([e-mail])
- find all empty, only keyboard, C source
- networkable, System V curses/termio

mines (Sep 1992)
- Ross Thompson ([e-mail])
- "Source based on a Mac game by Daniel Griscom .. based on .. Tom Anderson"
- X11, path finder, field resizable

Mines (July 1988)
- Timothy J. Lipetz
- AT&T UnixPC C source code, based on Tom Anderson code
- pathfinder (path guaranteed), several levels
- hand-grenades (chain-reaction of 4 adjacent mines etc.) to blowup a way
- extra soldiers to continue game

xtmines 1.2 (19 Jun 1992)
- Timothy K. Tsai
- X11 C source
- pathfinder, 40x25 field
- 3 hand grenades: 5 square distance to throw, chain reaction
. if explosion next -> end
- current place: show man or mine count
- sanity check: warning if too many marks around one square (penalty if used)
- autostepping (squares around non-mined) only available from upper level
- automarking marks unopened squares
- explosion -> tombstone on square, can't step on it anymore
- time runs down (bonus if time saved)
- statusbar: bombs,bonus,time,score,grenades,rank,lives

Sweeper V. 1.1 (12 Oct 1992)
- Thomas Grennefors ([e-mail])
- find all, X11, one patch

Xmines (10 Sept 1990)
- Jim McBeath
- X11R4 C source (Xt toolkit), based on Tom Anderson
- cross a minefield
- hint (ask for help): square next to current marked "ok" if possible

OS/2 Presentation Manager
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MineSweeper
- Bill Warner ([e-mail])
- mine.zip (os2mine.zip 34777k)
- High Score, Board size, Density

MineSweeper 1.1.0 (1993)
- David Charlap ([e-mail])
- MS Windows clone (direct), 32-bit exe for OS/2 2.0 w/PM GUI
- Shareware USD10

MineSweeper 2.5 (19 Jan 1993)
- Bill Warner ([e-mail])
- Freeware, source available for a donation (USD)
- 32-bit exe for OS/2 2.x

DOS
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Mine Find 1.0 (16 Jan 1993)
- Edward Henigin ([e-mail])
- Shareware USD15
- spinning color bars (can control speed)
- text graphics (small squares) ?!?

DOS Minesweeper V1.6 (1993)
- Markus Meier ([e-mail])
- minesweeper.exe (self-extracting 49379k)
- VGA graphics ?!? (is it or is it not..)
- ray-traced startup screen(!), needs mouse

VGA Mine Sweeper for DOS v1.0 (1992)
- Brian Driesse ([e-mail])
- mineswpr.zip (46730k)
- Shareware USD5, for source USD10
- Windows clone, no mouse, slooooooww, NAG
- safe superclick

Mine Sweeper for DOS 1.4 (1993)
- Hendrik Schmal ([e-mail])
- msweeper.zip (116178k) (w/LZexe compressed executable)
- safe superclick with 2 mouse buttons
- NOT a Windows clone (no menus, buttons on-screen)
- item specific color editor
- "Special thanks and greetings to Robert Donner and Curt Johnson,
   the inventors of Minesweeper." ??? WHO ARE THESE ???

Minerva 1.0e The Minefield Stomping Game (September 1993)
- Jouni Miettunen ([e-mail]) (that's me :)
. what can I say, I made it and think it's the best there is..
. has been used in Windows 3.x, Windows NT and OS/2 DOS boxes
. ftp.funet.fi:/pub/msdos/games/puzzle/mines10e.zip
. homemade GUI, not final (Beta)
- freeware (postcard)
- MacMines is good, but he didn't have to do the interface, too..
- included is the latest version of this list
. I've tested all DOS and Mac versions, for others I only checked manual

Blowup
- unknown author, C source
. mines game routines and enough interface to test them
. NOT a game, buggy, no interface, no score, no feedback to user...

Atari ST
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Mines
- Jan van der Steen
- 16x16 monochrome pathfinder (minesprg.zoo)
- Tom Anderson's Mines port
- C source available (minessrc.zoo)

Amiga
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MineSweeper 2.1 (1992)
- John Matthews ([e-mail])
- as close as possible to Windows version
- Public Domain, Modula2 source available

ArmyMiner v1.2 (30 May 1993)
- Alain Laferriere ([e-mail])
- freeware, X Window XMines clone
- claims to be the best Amiga version, manual supports this...
- user can give RNG seed to compete "on the same boards" w/friends
. must turn off "Safe Start"-option
- Beginner, Advanced, Expert, Custom
- Pause hides board and stops timer
- safe superclick on value
- options:
. use question marks: flag - question mark - unmarked square
. safe start: no bombs in its immediate neighbours
. auto mark: click on uncovered square marks all neighbours as bombs,
  when they are in equal number as value on that uncovered square
. safe click: OFF - MouseDown stays in one place even if cursor is moved
              ON  - MouseDown moves with mouse cursor
. sound effects: push, pop, mark, explode, "good work son"
- custom score: board dimensions, bomb percentage and timer value

AMIGA Minesweeper V0.98 (1992)
- Hubert Feyrer ([e-mail])
- MS Windows clone
- free, C++ source (needs ixemul.library)

AMines V1.2 (1992)
- Manfred Huesmann ([e-mail])
- X Window XMines clone
- freeware, Fish disk #707

MineClearer 1.0c (2 Sept 1991)
- Kopetzky Theodorich
- Shareware 5-10USD, Fish disk #541)
- MS Windows clone
- Help mode
. 7 helps available, each add 5 secs to time
. shows a safe square: first squares w/no mines nearby, later what's left

Demineur V1.0
- Le Roux Mikel
  Le Nehio 56520 Guidel (France)
- freeware, probably xdemineur port (french docs)

IntuiMines 1.0 (1992)
- J°rgen Kirksµther ([e-mail])
- Shareware USD5, C source included

Landmine 1.0 (Sept 1991)
- Perry Rosenboom (Box 333, Wantirna South, Victoria 3152, Australia)
- Shareware $10 Australian + floppy (for game + source)
- can save and load games

Mine 1.6 (21 Sept 1991)
- Thomas Ansorge
- freeware, Fish #725

Mined Out V1.0
- Dieter Seidel
- giftware (send something or write a PD program)
- remake of Ian Andrews BASIC program for Sinclair Spektrum
- pathfinder
. from bottom row to top row
. bottom row safe
. moves only left, right, up, down
- mine detector
. changes to Inverse Video if nearby mines
- enemy will come to chase you (over and over again)
- might find dynamite to blow up mines (or enemy or yourself)
- score
. for every row you get Level * 100 points - # of moves
. top row:  (Level - 1) * 1000 points
- good story:
    Well. You are in the desert, after escaping the prisoners camp north
    of Kuwait. South of you is the camp and the freedom lies north of you.
    Before you lies the deadly mine field.
    It's amazing but you have a mine detector.
- fortune cookies
- action reply (own or correct path)

Minefield 2.01 (27 Feb 1993)
- Michael D. Fischer ([e-mail])
- freeware
- expert mode: only mouseDown handled (faster)

Minen 1.01 (8 Jul 1992)
- Andreas Neuper ([e-mail])
- freeware, C source
- 3 languages available

Mines! v.1.19 (23 Apr 1993)
- Juha Korsimo ([e-mail])
- spreadware (spread it or pay it == freeware)
- MS Windows 3.1 clone (and more)
- safe start
- Arcade
. time limit for each field
. time left added for the next field
. next field starts by clicking, safe starting point given
  can select another field by clicking a new game == avail. time reduces
- save and load game (*.fld)
- can edit and create fields (and then play or save)
- solid square == cannot step == crater

VAX/VMS
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MineSweeper Version 2.0 for VAX (1992)
- Troy Baker & Jerry Jeremiah ([e-mail])
- find all, C source
- help given to those not in HighScore
- score
          Number_of_squares_cleared_or_flagged * Number_of_mines
. score = ------------------------------------------------------
               14%_of_size_of_Board * Number_of_hints_used