steve@cad0.arch.unsw.oz.au (Stephen Peter) (03/02/91)
G'Day all, As the subject says, I have uploaded new versions of the following games: conquest v2.3 and pokersq v1.5 to garbo.uwasa.fi they are in the games directory. Conquest is a strategy war-game, played on a "map" (a new map is created each time the game is run). The computer's move code has been rewritten (land-based strategy is much better, sea-based strategy is improved). The games initialisation (text) file has a number of new fields, including one to set the number of cities at the start - if you find the game too easy then simply give the computer players more cities & armies at the start.... Included with conquest is a program called "fixsave" which corrects faulty saved-games. Earlier versions had difficulty saving games where the map size was 14 (vertically). Fixsave, fixes those files (so they can be used with version 2.1, 2.2 or 2.3. Poker-square is a two-person game. Each player receives (the same) 25 cards to place on their 5 x 5 board, creating 10 (5H & 5V) poker hands, each hand gets a score and the winner is the player with the highest total score. The main new feature in this version is a "session top-10": after playing the game for a while, it becomes difficult to get onto the top-10 list, the "session top-10" displays a separate list for the current game session. enjoy! Stephen. PS people "down under" should note that the files are also available from sol.deakin.oz.au (and possibly keystone.arch.unsw.oz.au next week). -- _--_|\ / \ Stephen Peter steve@cad0.arch.unsw.oz.au \_.--._/<------------------------------------------------------------------- v School of Architecture, University of New South Wales, Australia