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Minesweeper ST, by Andrew MacCormack
This is my implementation of the classic 'Minesweeper' game. For those
of you with no experience of this most excellent game these are the
rules:
You have to track down all the mines in the minefield (or find all the
safe areas - same thing really). The corners of the minefield are
known to be safe. When you investigate a square, you will either be
blown up or shown a number there. This number indicates the number of
mines adjacent (including diagonally) to that square. It is up to you
to deduce where the mines are. When you think you have located a mine
you can mark it with a flag to make sure that you don't forget.
However - you may have put flags in the wrong places!
In this implementation the left mouse button examines a square, and
the right button places (or removes) a flag. There are three levels -
easy, medium and hard (based on the sizes in my flatmate's Mac
version). The hard level is so big that it can only be played on a mono
monitor (or emulator). The easier two levels can be played in any
resolution. The best times are saved to disk (why can't all games do
that?)
This game is in the Public Domain, but remains copyright of the
author; Andrew MacCormack. Any distribution of the game MUST include
this document file. If you would like to recieve any updates of the
game (one with samples coming soon), information about other programs
of mine and/or the GFA BASIC source code then please send me 5 Pounds
Sterling or $10. Please feel free, however, to send or email me any
suggestions for improvements to this or any of my programs. I am a
impoverished student, so any donations would be appreciated.
The game was written in GFA BASIC 3.5, and the executable packed with
Pack Ice. This document was written with Protext 4.3.
I can be contacted on email: arjm@dcs.ed.ac.uk (arjm@uk.ac.ed.dcs)
or snail-mail:
Andrew MacCormack
5 Overton Park
Dyce
Aberdeen
AB2 0FT
Scotland (which is NOT part of England, Americans)
UK