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News on the TSGMEE games package by Timo Salmi in reverse order
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University of Vaasa, Finland, Linux Pentium garbo.uwasa.fi has a
large collection of Shareware, Freeware and Public Domain PC
programs available by anonymous FTP, WWW (World Wide Web) and mail
server. The file ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/0news-ts contains news
about the TS-programs in the /pc/ts directory (in reverse order).
This text, which you now have, is an extract from the 0news-ts file
and the Usenet news.
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Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of news:comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at ftp:// & http://garbo.uwasa.fi archives 193.166.120.5
Department of Accounting and Business Finance ; University of Vaasa
mailto:ts@uwasa.fi <URL:http://uwasa.fi/~ts> ; FIN-65101, Finland
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Sun 29-Dec-96: I have corrected a bug in my "HANGMAN.EXE The classic
guess a word" which caused it to crash because of an oversight in
its memory management. The consequently updated package is available
as
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsgmee12.zip
Classic Hangman and Towers of Hanoi
Thu 14-Mar-96: I have made an update of the fifth of my games
packages
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsgmee11.zip
Classic Hangman and Towers of Hanoi
The programs are functionally unchanged, but I have brought the
information material in the package up to date. I have also added
the standard FILE_ID.DIZ identification file into the package. As
you probably know, many BBS systems display the contents of these
comment files on their file lists.
Sat 15-Dec-90: Christmas time is approaching so I introduced a fifth
package of games programs and called it /pc/ts/tsgmee10.arc. This
one contains nothing original, just repeats of old well-known games
in new clothes.
First there is the classic puzzle of the Towers of Hanoi, where
you have to move a pile of rings from one pole to another subject to
certain rules. The program includes a demo mode where the program
performs the moves. This involved an interesting piece of recursive
programming somewhat more complicated than the well-known task of
calculating factorials.
The second game in the package is the common hangman. You have to
guess a word letter by letter or be hung. In my opinion hangman
basically has a definite educational flavor despite its hang-em-hi
outward appearance. One twist is to use words from a foreign
language as the vocabulary file. (Recall that from a Finnish point
of view e.g. English is a foreign, albeit a familiar language). The
input of my hangman is timed, that is there is a time limit for
entering a guess.
Both programs use and require EGA compatible graphics. Both games
selftest against infections.