Hey Simeon,
Any progress with this?
Jeffrey
Simeon said the following on 2/7/2008 3:48 PM:
Any progress with this?
Jeffrey
Simeon said the following on 2/7/2008 3:48 PM:
> Well I dunno how much memory those devices have but storing the
> undobuffer of all previous and current level data can become quite
> large. The original C version can simply store no more than the data
> itself but Java uses objects and thus it needs more memory.
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> I'm using the SWT library for the GUI: http://www.eclipse.org/swt/ .
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> Simeon
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> --- In [email protected], yahoo@... wrote:
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>> Not sure how you are doing this, but my hope is that we you are
>> complete, I will use that as a basis for a J2ME version to play on the
>> Blackberry and possibly Palm's et el under SuperWaba.
>>
>> Jeffrey
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>> Simeon said the following on 2/7/2008 3:17 PM:
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>>> Yeah, it's currently capable of loading the levels, viewing (global)
>>> high scores and I've recently worked on undo/replay.
>>>
>>> I've also discovered that someone else created a portable
>>> version for other operating systems called Laser-X-Tank, see
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/laserxtank. I haven't checked to what
>>> extent the game has been ported, the most recent version is 0.2.
>>>
>>> Simeon
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>>> --- In [email protected], yahoo@ wrote:
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>>>
>>>> Any progress on this?
>>>>
>>>> Jeffrey
>>>>
>>>> simeon1987 said the following on 12/25/2007 11:04 AM:
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>>>>> --- In [email protected], "Gerry W" <gerrw@> wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi again,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> LFE writes
>>>>>> that
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>>>>>> "However, there are bugs in the gameplay that probably
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>>>>>>> need to be removed (eg. ice not breaking) and others that the
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>>>>>>> hasn't made a decision about (eg. tunnel bug shown by Ihab and
>>>>>>> Suyono)."
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think any rewriting would be in the interface etc. not in the
>>>>>> gameplay because then the two platforms wouldn't be compatible.
>>>>>>
> You
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>>>>>> can't have a level working in one and not the other.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gerry
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>> It would indeed be important to let the rewrite support the same
>>>>> tricks/glitches as the original. Any incompatibility could cause
>>>>> levels to be solvable in one but not in the other. Basically,
>>>>>
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>>>>> rewrite a program from scratch in a different language, you also
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>>>>> to rewrite the original gameplay (possibly with a different
>>>>> internal design) so it's still important to check the compatibility.
>>>>>
>>>>> This also applies to new levels created in the rewrite; the rewrite
>>>>> shouldn't contain bugs that could be used in the rewrite but not
>>>>> in the original version. When someone submits a new level, they also
>>>>> have to submit a playback file so that could be used to check if a
>>>>> level is also solveable in the original.
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>>>>>
>>>>>> PS. Simeon, I really like your levels!
>>>>>>
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>>>>> Thanks! :)
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