ROCKS-DIAMONDS, GAMES, X11 game (like Boulderdash) R O C K S ' N ' D I A M O N D S ----------------------------------- A game for Unix/X11 by Holger Schemel, (c) 1995 by Holger Schemel. Introduction ============ This is a nice little game with color graphics and sound for your Unix system with color X11. You need an 8-Bit color display or better. It is not recommended on black&white systems, and maybe not on gray scale systems. If you know the game "Boulderdash" (Commodore C64) or "Emerald Mine" (Amiga), you know what "ROCKS'N'DIAMONDS" is about. Rocks'n'Diamonds V 0.9B port under OpenVMS December 1997 ==========================================- Installation: ------------ ROCKS_N_DIAMOND rooted logical is needed. You can define it onto the distribution running SETUP_VMS procedure (which also defines the DCL symbol rocksn to run the game). $ @SETUP_VMS To install on a system-wide basis, you need to: 1) copy [.LEVELS...], [.GRAPHICS] and [.SOUNDS] directories to another location 2) define ROCKS_N_DIR rooted logical in Systartup_vms.com procedure: $ define/sys/trans=conc rocks_n_dir disk:[location.] 3) copy rocks_n_diamond executable to this location $ copy rocks_n_diamonds.exe(_vax) rocks_n_dir:rocks_n_diamonds.exe 4) redefine rocksn symbol in the sylogin.com procedure: $ rocksn*diamonds :== $rocks_n_dir:rocks_n_diamonds.exe Rebuild: ------- You can rebuild using COMPILE_DECC.COM procedure to compile with DEC C 5.0 or higher (tested for 5.0 and 5.2) and LINK_DECC.COM (for VAX)/LINK_AXP.COM (for Alpha) to relink. Object files are provided into ALPHA_OBJS.ZIP and VAX_OBJS.ZIP files. XPM libraries are also provided for VAX & Alpha. Exes: ---- Executables provided were built under VAX/VMS 6.1 and Alpha/VMS 6.2 WARNING (VAX VMS): ----------------- The VAX/VMS X server doesn't like very much rocks'n'diamonds : fatal loop ... You need to display on another system ... Porting notes: ------------- It was necessary to rename "Joystick" function to "Thejoystick" to avoid collision with the "joystick" variable. The sound driver is not ported (the sound samples provided are low quality 8khz 8 bit samples and if you have a fast enough Alpha you'd better play Hifi music during the game via decsound, timidity or mpeg3play ...). No joystick support. You can use the keyboard arrows instead. Enjoy !! Patrick Moreau pmoreau@cena.dgac.fr (or moreau_patrick@cena.dgac.fr) moreau_p@decus.fr http://www2.cenaath.cena.dgac.fr/~pmoreau/