Hi All, Just got turned on to this little game by some locals and am wondering if maybe there is a game somewhat like it or exactly like it on the SuSE discs? If you know of such a thing available for Linux, that would be fine also! It's the simple ones that take up most of our time, huh? :o) Here is the site: http://games.yahoo.com/games/collapse.html Patrick-- --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 8:38 pm, PL O'Smith wrote:
Hi All, Just got turned on to this little game by some locals and am wondering if maybe there is a game somewhat like it or exactly like it on the SuSE discs?
Looks like a marraige between "same game" and "tetris" -- same game would be the "closest" I know of "on linux", and actually more to my liking [requires more "thought" than merely "quick guessing" The funniest part was staring at the line that reads "this game not compatable with unix or macintosh computers" as I racked up a 14,000+ point score for my first try... [got to the point where they added the white blocks, which prevented the formation of enough "three or more blocks of the same color" instances to remove and thus keep the game from running off the top...]
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 3:00 am, Tom Emerson wrote:
The funniest part was staring at the line that reads "this game not compatable with unix or macintosh computers" as I racked up a 14,000+ point score for my first try... [got to the point where they added the white blocks, which prevented the formation of enough "three or more blocks of the same color" instances to remove and thus keep the game from running off the top...]
Gee, I got to the 8th level and 97,xxx points on my first try before I decided that the game didn't have much to offer.... Just an observation, not bragging. I'm not much for games anyway. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 01/15/03 09:19 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met."
* On Wednesday 15 January 2003 09:21 am, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 3:00 am, Tom Emerson wrote:
The funniest part was staring at the line that reads "this game not compatable with unix or macintosh computers" as I racked up a 14,000+ point score for my first try... [got to the point where they added the white blocks, which prevented the formation of enough "three or more blocks of the same color" instances to remove and thus keep the game from running off the top...]
Gee, I got to the 8th level and 97,xxx points on my first try before I decided that the game didn't have much to offer....
Just an observation, not bragging. I'm not much for games anyway.
--================== Oh, you guys are so amatuers, I can see that! ;o) The wife racked up like 170k points her first try, but then she really likes those types of games. I won't mention my first try points, as it is more like Tom's. Tom's comparison is pretty close as to the type game it is though and I have played both of those mentioned. This game is much like another one we used to play in some After Dark games, but we haven't found anything like them on Linux yet. Tom, I too thought it funny when I saw that last line. Maybe they meant the downloadable game they have only for Windows? Who knows what they were thinking. From other sources though, I understand it does have some sounds associated with it and I don't think we are hearing those, but don't understand why. Anyway, if anyone runs across something, I would like to know what game compares to it. Patrick --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206
In a previous message, PL O'Smith wrote:
I understand it does have some sounds associated with it and I don't think we are hearing those
I heard them playing it on mozilla, so it *is* possible under linux! John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Knossos: escape the ever-changing labyrinth before the Minotaur catches you!
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 9:45 am, PL O'Smith wrote:
Tom, I too thought it funny when I saw that last line. Maybe they meant the downloadable game they have only for Windows? Who knows what they were thinking. From other sources though, I understand it does have some sounds associated with it and I don't think we are hearing those, but don't understand why. Anyway, if anyone runs across something, I would like to know what game compares to it.
I was getting the sounds... under Mozilla. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 01/15/03 09:55 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Disregard the previous cookie."
* On Wednesday 15 January 2003 09:55 am, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 9:45 am, PL O'Smith wrote:
Tom, I too thought it funny when I saw that last line. Maybe they meant the downloadable game they have only for Windows? Who knows what they were thinking. From other sources though, I understand it does have some sounds associated with it and I don't think we are hearing those, but don't understand why. Anyway, if anyone runs across something, I would like to know what game compares to it.
I was getting the sounds... under Mozilla.
--================== Ok, that's good, I don't know why then Konq is not playing them also. May have to do some investigating on that since my Mozilla is the gcc3.2 setup and doesn't work with Java. May have to drop back to a gcc 2.95 version for a while. Patrick --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206
Not about this one, but i also suffered a lack of some pretty old kind of games in linux. I don't like to play any kind of 3D shooters, or the adventure games. I need some 2D arcade-adventures, like Captain Claw, Commander Keen, Boulder Dash and especially Pitfall-Mayan Adventure.. Do you know about any games of this kind? I can recevie some emulation suggestions, but good graphics will be better.
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 17:54, oeren@ykb.com wrote:
Not about this one, but i also suffered a lack of some pretty old kind of games in linux. I don't like to play any kind of 3D shooters, or the adventure games. I need some 2D arcade-adventures, like Captain Claw, Commander Keen, Boulder Dash and especially Pitfall-Mayan Adventure.. Do you know about any games of this kind? I can recevie some emulation suggestions, but good graphics will be better.
Have a look at http://freshmeat.net You'd be surprised at what has been
ported to linux. I'm currently playing Rick Dangerous :)
Gnome Stones is a pretty straight port of Boulder Dash. Not sure about
the other ones, but browse the games section of freshmeat. There's a ton
of goodies there.
--
Anders Johansson
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 4:54 pm, oeren@ykb.com wrote:
Not about this one, but i also suffered a lack of some pretty old kind of games in linux. I don't like to play any kind of 3D shooters, or the adventure games. I need some 2D arcade-adventures, like Captain Claw, Commander Keen, Boulder Dash and especially Pitfall-Mayan Adventure.. Do you know about any games of this kind? I can recevie some emulation suggestions, but good graphics will be better. Boulderdash WOOHOO! Check out krepton for something vageuly similar ;o)
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Not about this one, but i also suffered a lack of some pretty old kind of games in linux. I don't like to play any kind of 3D shooters, or the adventure games. I need some 2D arcade-adventures, like Captain Claw, Commander Keen, Boulder Dash and especially Pitfall-Mayan Adventure.. Do you know about any games of this kind? I can recevie some emulation suggestions, but good graphics will be better.
Have you seen Dave GNUkem? http://www.scorpioncity.com/djgame.html It's a clone of the original Duke Nukem. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+JZuO+FOexA3koIgRAhboAJ9u4z4p/Hy7TuWE/A+jMXLsMtbt3ACfYP9B nzlwK6vfR5vtFMoegNUrXok= =F7ir -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
These are good news !.. Duke Nukem, Boulder Dash & Rick Dangerous are found by now :-) (Still looking for pitfall harry, captain claw and commander keen..) And also a puzzle game similar to wonderful Aargon may come out, will it?
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 4:38 am, PL O'Smith wrote:
Here is the site: http://games.yahoo.com/games/collapse.html
Same-Game might be similar? Not played it, but it looks vaguly similar I nearly fell off my chair laughing as I hit a score of 28,699 and noticed at the bottom that it said "Note: Collapse is not compatible with Unix or Macintosh computers." I assume thats about the downloadable version, but thats made me and my partner laugh ;o) Oh, and I now have RSI due to all that clicking ;o) Damn, I'm addicted :grins: Ahh well, what the use of a cable modem if you can't be online 24/7 ;o)
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 8:38 pm, PL O'Smith wrote:
... am wondering if maybe there is a game somewhat like it on the SuSE discs?
OK, maybe I'm getting a wild hair in an area where the sun don't shine all that often [or else it's the coffee] but I'm figuring this can't be ALL that difficult to "visually reconstruct" :) Trouble is, while I do have *some* artistic talent, it isn't particularly well suited to computer graphics -- I sat down to create the "tiles" as icons/bitmaps, and I got something that looks like a twelve year old made it [ohh, to really BE twelve again... :) ] Then it dawned on me: there is no need to reinvent the wheel -- the game starts out with the message "LOADING images...", so [presumalbly] things like the tiles and the "dissapear into a flash" animation are not directly "in" the java applet, but retrievable from some network resource -- I can simply grab those images and incorporate them directly... does anyone know offhand where the game actually retrieves the images? [I don't have ethereal hooked up to "look for" the actual java code/http get requests]
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 8:38 pm, PL O'Smith wrote: regarding the subject and the sample page given:
I have "one more item" to contribute to this thread: http://linuxbag.com/collapse Yes, "it is the same game and runs natively under linux" ----BUT---- it sucks [sort of] I found their site via a google search for "collapse" and actually found the game "rotatemania" first. Downloaded it, fired it up, and "sure enough, it plays under linux :) " Downloaded the collapse game as well. Downsides of these games: ** no source code -- binary only package [.tgz] -- yes, I'm sure some consider this a plus [I used to at one time as well] OTOH, they are fully self contained -- installation is as simple as "tar -xzf <filename>" and you're done ** they are commercial [also can be considered "a plus", since it means commercial entities ARE developing for linux as an intended target rather than an offshoot] ** you get to play them "for free" for only two weeks -- the "nag" screen for rotatemania came up on every third or fourth mouseclick... OTOH the price appears to be reasonable -- $12.50/game ** they are "slow" -- of course, that might only because I had things set to "novice", but collapse in particular was PAINFULLY slow -- I think it was the integration of sound & animation as "things stopped moving" while the sound was playing, and picked up when the sound stopped. However, "for added fun and excitement", I e-mailed BOTH yahoo and linuxbag and asked "who holds the copyright?" They both claim it, and while yahoo is a big powerful entity, linuxbag seems to be an outside-the-U.S. software house -- should be interesting to see how this plays out
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Tom Emerson