ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (10/16/90)
Tue 16-Oct-90: I recently programmed and distributed two games involving national flags. A quiz of national flags, and as a by-product, a memory game of pairing turned flags. Quite a number of users have downloaded the package from our site, and I've had some nice feedback concerning the games. In particular, Erik Jacobsen from Aarhus University (erja@daimi.aau.dk) has (once again) made a number of useful suggestions. In accordance, I have corrected some of the flags, added displaying the name of the country, and added an /f switch (flag labels off) for a player who does not want the flag nation name to appear, and remain, under the flag after the quess. The demo /d switch now also shows the names under all the flags. A suggestion from Erik to users who like a particular set of switches: Use a batch file for calling the game. (He needs the /s switch (supress selftest), because he has compressed his executables with lzexe). I have added 15 new flags in both the games bringing the total up to 85 national flags. The updated package is (/pc/ts/)tsgmed11.arc. Available by anonymous ftp or mail server from chyde.uwasa.fi, Vaasa, Finland. TSGMED11.ARC National flags as games, T.Salmi Filename Comment Date Time -------- -------------------------------- ---- ---- FLAGGAME.EXE Memory game with flags 10-16-90 06:00:34 FLAGQUIZ.EXE Learn national flags by a quiz 10-16-90 05:52:48 TSGMED.INF Document 10-16-90 06:29:40 TSGMED.NWS News concerning this package 10-16-90 06:23:18 TSPROG.INF List of PD programs by T.Salmi 10-13-90 09:14:26 ---- ------ ------ ----- 0005 169548 94942 45% UseNet Download Information =========================== The preferred order of using the different methods of getting archived programs from chyde.uwasa.fi, Vaasa, Finland, 128.214.12.3 is: 1) Automated anonymous ftp (Batchftp, fast and convenient anyway). 2) "Manual" anonymous ftp 3) Mail server (use ONLY IF 1 and 2 are not available for you). If you have to use our mail server, remember that it goes as follows: 1) Send an email message to hv@chyde.uwasa.fi NOT TO ME! I repeat, not to Timo Salmi (ts@chyde.uwasa.fi). 2) Use the following subject line in your email. This is very important. Please carefully get it right. chyde-request 3) Put exactly the following line in the body of the message: send ts/tsgmed11.arc 4) Don't include a signature. 5) If you send from outside InterNet, and/or if your email address is difficult to reach, then include your email address path as the first line in the body of your message. Ask your own system manager (or post-master) for the detais. The general idea will look something like: path YourUserId@YourMachineId.YourDomain.YourCountry If you don't get any reponse from us (not even an error message) then item 2 or item 5 are the most probable sources of your problem. ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3) School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun