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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
China Challenge III
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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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