(CLines) Curses Lines / Console Lines project
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(CLines) Curses Lines / Console Lines project |
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It's a standard "Lines" game, implemented as a curses application.
This was abandoned until 2006, when a friend of mine was visiting the area.
I got to tell him this story as something triggered my memory, and I wanted to
show him the game. I don't have that laptop anymore, and my primary system at
home is OpenBSD. The game, though did compile, didn't work on OpenBSD, dumping
it's core almost upon startup. So, I shook it up, fixed some bugs, and released
it publically.
The game should work on any UNIX system, and was proven to work in CygWin
environment as well (www.cygwin.com).
In 1.0.4, a manual page was added, CLINES(6).
Why and How
Some time back in 2002 my daughter were just born, and my wife were playing
these Lines on PC, to kill time and of being exhausted to do anything else. We
were moving to another apartment. The day right before we were supposed to
move, I got a call from the appartment manager, telling me the appartment
wasn't ready. And it wouldn't be. For 2 more weeks. I politely explained the
manager, that there is no way he's telling me that the day before the move. He had
a vivid imagination on how he could fix it, but we ended up agreeing on him
giving me a model, and a garage to store all my stuff. I didn't want to deploy
my hdarware fleet, considering there were no phone/cable in the model anyway.
So, for two weeks, all we had was my i586 laptop, with 32Mb of memory and
RedHat 8, without X, since the disk was too small. When I told my wife that,
the first thing she said was how is she gonna play her Lines. Well, little
choice there was, so I wrote one. I think it took me a little under a week, since
I couldn't do it at work, I don't really remember. My wife never played them,
or never played any Lines again :)
| (C) Copyright 2002, Pawel S. Veselov |
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