David.Hochhauser@rubbs1.FIDONET.ORG (David Hochhauser) (09/19/88)
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't know what I'm doing! I just downloaded LARN from the FIDO files. I unARCed the file LARN12S.ARC and got:
-README-
FIXED.BUG
LARN.ARC
LARN.DOC
LARN.FTN
LARN.HLP
LARN.MAZ
LARN.OPT
OLARN.HLP
OREADME
TERMCAP.ARC
Was I supposed to get a file called LARN.TTP? What do I do with LARN.ARC and TERMCAP.ARC. Do I need a special compiler? Would someone familiar with this game please contact me either on this BBS or call me at 201-932-0597. Thanx.
Sincerely
David Hochhauser
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\...!rutgers!rubbs1!David.Hochhauserhyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (09/19/88)
In article <57.2334A7BA@rubbs1.FIDONET.ORG> David.Hochhauser@rubbs1.FIDONET.ORG (David Hochhauser) writes: >HELP!!!!!!!!!!!! > >I don't know what I'm doing! I just downloaded LARN from the FIDO files. I unARCed the file LARN12S.ARC and got: > -README- > FIXED.BUG > LARN.ARC > LARN.DOC > LARN.FTN > LARN.HLP > LARN.MAZ > LARN.OPT > OLARN.HLP > OREADME > TERMCAP.ARC > >Was I supposed to get a file called LARN.TTP? What do I do with LARN.ARC and TERMCAP.ARC. Do I need a special compiler? Would someone familiar with this game please contact me either on this BBS or call me at 201-932-0597. Thanx. What you downloaded was the complete sources for my port of Larn 12.0 to the ST. There are no executable files in that archive. The subfile LARN.ARC has the actual source code, and TERMCAP.ARC has the source for the termcap library, as well as a description of the ST's built in VT52 emulation. I wrote this port using Mark Williams C version 2.0. All you need to do to get a working game is unpack the files and type "make," assuming you have that compiler. If not, then you're better off getting hold of the executables. Look for a file named LARN12.ARC (note the absence of the letter 'S' in the name...) and just use that. A lot of copies of LARN12.ARC were distributed without the termcap description included. I've posted the termcap separately to this group a few times already, so you should be able to find it at an archive site. Has anyone else run Larn from a BBS? It will work, if you redirect all three I/O descriptors to the serial port. (Actually, it might be best to leave stderr directed to the ST console...) I suppose it's not such a hot idea, after all, since you can't limit the time someone plays for. But since it uses termcap, you can support a wide variety of terminals in the game. -- / /_ , ,_. Howard Chu / /(_/(__ University of Michigan / Computing Center College of LS&A ' Unix Project Information Systems