sharp@yale.ARPA (Oliver J. Sharp) (11/19/84)
I have enjoyed this game a great deal. In fact, I ported it to a PC running Lattice with no problems. If anyone is interested, I can tell them what this involves (basically replacing the termcap calls and implementing a sort which Lattice left out :-( ). There is, however, one bug that I have found. If you like to use the "human wave" approach, you put a lot of 1-strength infantry on the screen. Against a Mark V ogre, this generates a segmentation fault. The fix is to increase the symbolic constant N_UNITS in the header file ogre.h. 60 is plenty - it is now set to 30. The documentation, incidentally, doesn't mention that you can place infantry with <3 strength. What you do is hit the number you want, 1,2, or 3. Hitting a 3 is the same as a 'I'. If I just missed this in the docs, I apologize to Michael. By the way, is anyone else interested in the algorithms used for the ogre's strategy? I was thinking of messing around with them a little. Send mail (DON'T POST, please) if you'd like to discuss this. Compliments to Michael Caplinger ... Oliver Sharp ...!yale!sharp