1GENERAL: 2[Q] - What is Koules 3[Q] - What does 'Koules' mean? 4[Q] - Who makes Koules and how can I get in touch with them? 5[Q] - Where can I obtain Koules? 6[Q] - What is the latest version of Koules? 7[Q] - Will Koules ever be ported to DOS? 8[Q] - What are the point values 9[Q] - How can I pause or abort a game of Koules? 10[Q] - What is the optimal control configuration for playing Koules? 11[Q] - How many levels are in Koules 12[Q] - How much time I need to complete Koules? 13[Q] - Do you have any hints or tips for playing Koules? 14X11: 15[Q] - What version of X11 do I need? 16LINUX: 17[Q] - Do I need a sound card? 18[Q] - What version of kernel svgalib and X11 do I need? 19HISTORY: 20[Q] - How long did it take to create Koules? 21 22---------- 8< ---------- 8< ---------- 8< ---------- 8< ---------- 8< --------- 23 GENERAL 24[Q] - What is Koules 25 26[A] - Koules is an action funny game for Unix/X11, linux/svgalib and OS/2. 27 It supports multi-player mode, high resolution, digitized sound, mouse 28 joystick, up to 640x480 resolution with cool 256 color graphics. 29 100 levels, intro / outro etc 30 31 Koules is an original game. It was developed from scratch 32 by Jan Hubicka in july 1995 33 34[Q] - What does 'Koules' mean? 35 36[A] - Koules is an English plural of the Czech word 'koule'(= sphere) 37 38[Q] - What computer do I need in order to play Koules? 39 40[A] - Koules runs unix machines, running X11 or svgalib 1.2.5+. For 41 640x480 you need computer faster than 486/50. 320x200 works fine 42 on 386/40 with coprocessor 43 44[Q] - Who makes Koules and how can I get in touch with them? 45 46[A] - Koules is published as freeware under GPL by Jan Hubicka 47 My Address: 48 JAHUSOFT 49 Jan Hubicka 50 Dukelskych Bojovniku 1944 51 390 03 Tabor 52 Czech Republic 53 Phone: 0041-361-32613 54 eMail: hubicka@limax.paru.cas.cz 55 56[Q] - Where can I obtain Koules? 57 58[A] - The latest version of Koules is always on the following sites: 59 limax.paru.cas.cz:/pub/linux/games/koules 60 sunsite.unc.edu :/pub/linux/games/video 61 tsx-11.mit.edu :/pub/linux/sources/usr.games 62 :/pub/linux/binaries/usr.games 63 64[Q] - What is the latest version of Koules? 65 66[A] - The current version of Koules is 1.4. 67 68[Q] - Will Koules ever be ported to DOS? 69 70[A] - Maybe, maybe never 71 72[Q] - What are the point values 73 74[A] - Bounce something : +1 75 Eat extension : +10 76 At end of level 77 every live : +20 78 every lost level : -100 79 In deathmatch mode 80 every destroyed competitor: +100 81 82[Q] - How can I pause or abort a game of Koules? 83 84[A] - You may stop game by: 85 pressing P 86 switching to other window 87 iconifing 88 89 Press ESC to abort Koules 90 91[Q] - What is the optimal control configuration for playing Koules? 92 93[A] - I personally prefer cursor keys. 94 There is problem with PC keyboard in more than two players mode. 95 PC keyboard controller may crash if you press more than 3 keys 96 following configuration works fine in 3 players mode: 97 player 1: <a> <s> <d> <w> 98 player 2: <j> <,> <l> <i> 99 player 3: <1> <2> <3> <5> (keypad) 100 101[Q] - How many levels are in koules 102 103[A] - 99+1 (bonus level:). 104 105[Q] - How much time I need to complete koules? 106 107[A] - stupid player: a month 108 worse player: 5 1/4 hours 109 average player: 2 1/2 hours 110 My friend and me: 50 minutes 111 god: 1/1000000 ns 112 113 (Medium difficulty) 114 115[Q] - Do you have any hints or tips for playing Koules? 116 117[A] - Standard KOULES fighters: 118 - fly near boarders (they may not be able to keep in the screen) 119 - wait near the border, when they are near fly around them, and 120 kick them out. 121 - keep in the center 122 - Standard B_BALLS: 123 - hide behind holes 124 - try to fly around magnetic holes ( B_BALLS may fall into ) 125 - Inspectors: 126 - wait behind them B_BALLS would kick them out 127 128---------- 8< ---------- 8< ---------- 8< ---------- 8< ---------- 8< --------- 129 X11 130[Q] - What version of X11 do I need? 131 132[A] - X11R4 for xlib support 133 X11R5 for mit shared memory support 134 135---------- 8< ---------- 8< ---------- 8< ---------- 8< ---------- 8< --------- 136 LINUX 137[Q] - Do I need a sound card? 138 139[A] - You may play without sound or with sound using pcsnd driver 140 141[Q] - What version of kernel svgalib and X11 do I need? 142 143[A] - Linux Koules was developed using the 1.3 series kernel, SVGAlib 144version 1.2.6-7 and XFree86 version 3.2. It should run with any stable 145series Linux kernel that includes the VoxWare sound driver. 146 147---------- 8< ---------- 8< ---------- 8< ---------- 8< ---------- 8< --------- 148 HISTORY 149[Q] - How long did it take to create Koules? 150 151[A] - The initial (1.0) version of Koules took approximately 2 days of coding 152 and two weeks of tuning, playing and creating intro 153 Version 1.1 took one week 154 Version 1.1b took one hour 155 Version 1.1c took Three days 156 Version 1.2 took four days and two weeks of testing 157 Version 1.3 took two minutes :) 158 Version 1.4 took two years 159