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Quarantine Gaming !! - Dev/Port Help

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Dave Yeo:

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yum install gcc*   :-)

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The tricky part is setting up the various SDL libs, at least the ones built with OpenWatcom which seem a better choice then the ones installed by YUM/RPM

Martin Iturbide:
Hi

I think I never tried Light Cycles and not even have a picture of it.
https://www.os2world.com/games/index.php/native-games/puzzle/275-light-cycles

It required something called ACSSVC (APPC.DLL and ACSSVC.DLL), does someone has those DLLs?

Will it work, or does it requires some strange network protocol (not TCP/IP) to run?

Regards

Pete:
Hi All

Had my own corona virus scare recently: Had double hernia repair surgery on 10 March, discharged on 11 March at noon but about 12 hours later I was having trouble breathing and was coughing up blood - some of it bright red. My wife phoned an advice line who told her to wait for a call from an out of hours doctor service. They rang rang almost immediately, listened to wifes description of my problems and sent an ambulance. Turns out that the hospital where I had the surgery had had its first death from this virus the day before I had surgery and my symptoms were similar enough to cause a mild panic. However, after a checkup at hospital turns out I was suffering from a lung infection probably the result of having had a breathing tube inserted/removed during surgery. The wife and I were told to "self isolate" for a minimum of 14 days simply because we had been at 2 hospitals within 2 days...

Not being able to do much of anything due to the surgery the "self isolate" bit was not a great hardship - of course, now the whole UK is going through the same "self isolate" bit and will be for the forseeable future...

Looking for something to do I investigated the sample applications supplied with WDSibyl. I am not a games coder myself but compiled the chess game sample and added some code to save and read an ini file which saves the screen position and Difficulty setting - the default setting is 3 which is way above my Novice level of play  ;-)

I have attached WDSchess.zip in case anyone wants to give it a try - something to do while stuck at home  :-)
If it gets positive reactions I will upload it to hobbes.


In the meantime: Stay Healthy, everyone.


Regards

Pete

David Graser:
Hi Pete,

It is a simple chess game, but works great. 

Pete:
Hi David

Yes, simple but seems capable. I am not much of a chess player myself and struggle to win games on any difficulty setting higher than 2 - and lose more than I win even when set to Novice (1)...

If I can work out the coding I will try to add Save/Load Game capability - sadly the source code is lacking any comments. Moan, moan - even back in the late 1980s it was obvious that comments would be useful when revisiting code at a future date and college coding assignments were marked down if there were not enough informative comments.


Regards

Pete

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