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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 14:22:48 MDT
- From: yackd@oregon.et.byu.edu (Don Yacktman)
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- Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
- Subject: New versions of PacMan, PillBottle, and Columns
- Keywords: PacMan, PillBottle, ColumnsHello to all of you who like to play games on the NeXT!
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- I have recently placed updated versions of my games in
- the submissions directories of nova.cc.purdue.edu and
- cs.orst.edu. Here's a brief description of the changes
- to all three (PacMan, Columns, and PillBottle).
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- PacMan:
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- Bug fixes, mostly. The Makefile is fixed, the console
- messages should be gone, the return char. in the subject
- field of the suggestions mailer is gone, and so on. I
- think I've nabbed all the reported _bugs_, but haven't
- had time to get around to much in the new feature category.
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- There are two new features, however. (1) You can now set
- the background picture by drag and drop of a .tiff or .eps
- image from the WorkSpace. (2) The stats and fruit basket
- panels move around with the PacMan window.
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- Columns:
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- The only real change is the addition of drap and drop
- backgrounds as in PacMan. However, if you are a registered
- user, you may now request source code from me and I will
- e-mail it to you.
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- PillBottle:
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- This is an interim release. I'm hard at work revamping
- things, but felt that I'd like to share some of what I've
- accomplished now...most of the improvements are in the
- underlying code, and not so visible on the surface, but
- the interface is prettier and the images (finally) ought
- to look good on both color _and_ monochrome machines. If
- you thought the graphics were ugly before, try it out
- again; I think it looks a bit better now. I still need to
- speed up drawing and finish the implementation of several
- features, but it's getting there. If you registered for
- PillBottle, you may now request source for that as well.
- It's not what I'd call a finished state, but you can have
- a peek at it just the same. :-)
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- The file names are, specifically:
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- Columns2.0.app.tar.Z
- PacMan1.1.tar.Z
- PillBottle0.8b.app.tar.Z
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- and they are located in /pub/next/submissions on both
- nova( or sonata).cc.purdue.edu and cs.orst.edu.
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- Well, try out the new versions and let me know what you think
- of them. I've you've already requested a feature, and it
- hasn't shown up yet, don't panic! I'm working as fast as I
- can of these, but there's only so much spare time in the day!
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- Later,
- -Don Yacktman
- yackd@wombat.ee.byu.edu
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