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- DESCRIPTION:
-
- XBlockbuster is a variation of the break-out type games, only a bit more
- complex in the type of bricks it has and effects the bricks have. It should
- run on any X11 system (color or black and white).
-
- RESTRICTIONS:
- This game may be freely copied or distributed as long as no fee
- is required. Since the code is a mixture of both the original and my
- own, I make no claims on it. However, if you do use it for something
- else, credit would by nice.
-
- TO BUILD:
-
- If you want to use the Imakefile, all that is needed is:
-
- 1) xmkmf
- 2) make
- 3) make install
-
- If you don't want to use the Imakefile, do the following:
- 1) cp Makefile.noIm Makefile
- 2) Edit the Makefile. Everything should be fairly well documented.
- You should make sure that whatever FONT is defined to is available
- on your system, or the program will not work (use xlsfonts to see
- what fonts your server provides.) I believe the default font as
- distributed (10x20) is part of the X11R5 distribution.
- 3) make
- 4) make install
-
- XBlockbuster can use the same playground that Blockbuster (the sunview
- version) does, if you already have that installed. Set LIBDIR appropriately
- to use the same playground.
-
- I have successfully compiled the source with both cc and gcc on
- a sun 3/sunos 4.1.1.
-
- After you have set up the Makefile to your satisfaction, type:
-
-
- FILES (of interest):
-
- CHANGES: changes made from blockbuster to xblockbuster.
-
- RATIONAL.SV, README.SV: Files from the original SunView version that may be
- of interest to people.
-
- XBlockbuster.ad: X Defaults I use for coloring the bricks.
- NOTE: xblockbuster will not use these values if they are installed
- in the standard app-defaults directory. They MUST be read in
- by xrdb, either by being in the user .Xdefaults file or by
- perform xrdb on XBlockbuster.ad file itself.
-
- icons (directory): Contains the brick images, as well as a few other. Brick
- images with _alt in the name are the alternate images used for color.
- (See the manual page for more information on coloring the bricks and
- alternate bricks.)
-
- TODO:
-
- A nice opening screen, showing the bricks (with proper coloring, if
- applicable), along with descriptions of what each brick does.
-
- Fix some of the remaining bugs (most are quite minor, or happen very
- infrequently)
-
- Use a setuid mechanism so that the save directory and score files don't
- need to be publicly writable.
-
- Make it so the xblockbuster will read in the XBlockbuster.ad file if
- it is stored in the standard place.
-
- Fix the BUGS as listed in the man page.
-
- NOTES:
- As far as I know, this should run on pretty much any system that
- has X installed. However, I am limited to only running it on a sun 3/60,
- so that is all it has been tested under (X11R5).
-
- I will maintain it and release patches as required.
-
- Mark Wedel
- master@cats.ucsc.edu
- March 10, 1993
-
-