1xhyperoid - an enhanced shoot-the-asteroids game. 2Copyright (C) 1991 Edward Hutchins. 3Unix/Linux port by Russell Marks, 2000. 4 5This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 6it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 7the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at 8your option) any later version. 9 10This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 11WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 12MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 13General Public License for more details. 14 15You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 16along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software 17Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. 18 19 20Description 21----------- 22 23Hyperoid was a really cool little game for Windows 3.x. It's 24essentially an Asteroids clone, but with a few extra features. There 25are three reasons I ported it: 26 27 - the decent game physics and enhancements over the original game 28 make it probably my favourite Asteroids variant; 29 30 - it's always sucked having to run it under Windows (admittedly, you 31 can run the original under Wine, but it's less than ideal); 32 33 - it's the first GPL'd program I ever saw, which gives it a certain 34 special something for me. :-) 35 36One of the first things I did on porting it was to add sound, so 37that's another plus. :-) 38 39Once you've installed it, READ THE MAN PAGE. Some things about it are 40a bit non-obvious, and it can save time to have them pointed out... 41 42 43Installation 44------------ 45 46Despite the `xhyperoid' name, there are actually two versions - one 47for X, and one for svgalib. The X version requires GTK+ (it probably 48needs 1.2.x or better). 49 50(You can get GTK+ from http://www.gtk.org if you don't already have 51it, but if you run Linux you probably do, or can install a `gtk' 52package from your distribution (be sure to install any `gtk-devel' or 53similar too). Much the same is true of svgalib - 54http://www.svgalib.org for that.) 55 56You can choose to compile either version, or both. Here's what to do: 57 58 make x # for xhyperoid (X version) only 59or 60 make vga # for vhyperoid (svgalib version) only 61or 62 make # for both 63 64If you don't know what to do, `make x' is probably safest. 65 66After that's finished, do (as root) `make install'. And as I say, be 67sure to read the man page. :-) 68 69(BTW, the X version stands a fair chance of working on non-Linux 70machines, though you'll probably have to comment out DO_SOUND in the 71Makefile. I'd like to know of any success or failure anyone has with 72this.) 73 74 75Contacting me 76------------- 77 78You can email me at russell.marks@ntlworld.com. 79 80Unfortunately, I don't have any contact details for the original 81author of Hyperoid (Edward Hutchins); as far as I can tell, his email 82address as given in README.orig seems to have been valid until at 83least 1994, but doesn't work any more. There is a snail-mail address 84for him in README.orig if you're desperate :-), but as it dates from 851991, it may or may not be valid any more. 86 87 88Have fun, 89-Rus. 90