README
1"Das mit dem Affen"
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3This is a one-night hack. It's a puzzle type game for X11.
4I played it on another hardware platform (it was made of several
5pieces of wood) and ported it to Unix/X11.
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7How to play it
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9After you have started the game (by simply typing "./affenspiel",
10no need to install anything), you will immediately see what to do:
11Shift the puzzle pieces around so that the monkey becomes complete,
12that means, move the big piece through the other pieces to the
13bottom of the playfield, so that the monkey picture gets complete.
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15To move one piece, just click with the mouse on it. If there is only
16one direction in which the piece can be moved, it will do so. If there
17are several possible directions, click near the border of the desired
18direction. Just try it out!
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20I think it is not *that* easy, but it is definitely solvable.
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22There are a few functions mapped on several keys. They are not needed
23to play this little game, but maybe you find them useful:
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25 n,N : Restart the game. This arranges the pieces
26 to the starting position.
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28 s,S : Save the actual state of the game. It will
29 be saved to a default file under "/tmp" or
30 to the default file that you can specify in
31 the Makefile or to a file that you have
32 given as a command line argument, e.g. when
33 started as "./affenspiel monkey3".
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35 l,L : Restore a previously saved game. This will
36 try to load an old game state from the same
37 file as described under "s,S". (That means,
38 that you can only save *one* game state while
39 playing a game. Use the "mv" or "cp" to go
40 around this! =;-)
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42 q,Q : Quit the game.
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45The game should run as fine under a color X11 server as under Black&White.
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47If there are any problems, just take the source file and hack it! ;-)
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49To build your own version (probably under other UNIX-like operation
50systems than Linux, for example SUN or HP-UX), just type "make" and
51it should be recompiled.
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53If want to write to the author, write to: aeglos@valinor.owl.de
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55 Snail Mail: Holger Schemel
56 Sennehof 28
57 33659 Bielefeld
58 GERMANY
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60And now, have fun!
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62 Holger
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