[comp.sys.mac.games] Glypha II and FTP

EHYOUNK@MTUS5.BITNET (05/14/91)

   Does anyone in netland know where you can get glypha II from a ftp site? It
was in the info-mac archive-queue, but it was never archived?

   I tried using archie, but no luck. Does anyone no where I can find it?
I interested in how well the color was done.

Later,

Ed,

2fmlcalls@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (05/16/91)

In article <91133.160337EHYOUNK@MTUS5.BITNET>, EHYOUNK@MTUS5.BITNET writes:
> 
>    Does anyone in netland know where you can get glypha II from a ftp site? It
> was in the info-mac archive-queue, but it was never archived?

To avoid problems, here is the full pathname:

mac.archive.umich.edu/mac/games/arcade/glyphatwo.09.sit.hqx

For beginners that's:

ftp mac.archive.umich.edu
Username: anonymous
Password: your-name-here
cd mac
cd games
cd arcade
get glyphatwo.09.sit.hqx

john calhoun

epayne@x102a.harris-atd.com (payne edward 01471) (05/17/91)

	GREAT JOB!!  I don't know how tough it was to write Glypha II for a
color machine but it is really great.  Good use of color.  I used to love
Joust back in college.  Now I basically have the same fun at home.  Well worth
the shareware fee.  My check is on its way!

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ce1zzes@prism.gatech.EDU (Eric Sheppard) (05/18/91)

epayne@x102a.harris-atd.com (payne edward 01471) writes:


>	GREAT JOB!!  I don't know how tough it was to write Glypha II for a
>color machine but it is really great.  Good use of color.  I used to love
>Joust back in college.  Now I basically have the same fun at home.  Well worth
>the shareware fee.  My check is on its way!

I agree, it looks great.  I found an annoying bug, though.
Stock Mac II, System 6.0.7.

I played a couple of games, and it worked fine.  When I played the third time,
the jouster would not respond to the keyboard until the timer finished and
the jouster stopped flashing.  If the flapping was done while the jouster
was flashing, all the keystrokes are then spit out at blinding speed.  
Annoying, when the screen is filled with enemies.  You cannot control it 
until the stored keystrokes are played out; you end up ramming yourself into
an enemy jouster from below.

Eric
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lorner@ecst.csuchico.edu (Lance Orner) (05/18/91)

In article <29309@hydra.gatech.EDU> ce1zzes@prism.gatech.EDU (Eric Sheppard) writes:
>I played a couple of games, and it worked fine.  When I played the third time,
>the jouster would not respond to the keyboard until the timer finished and
>the jouster stopped flashing.  If the flapping was done while the jouster
>was flashing, all the keystrokes are then spit out at blinding speed.  
>Annoying, when the screen is filled with enemies.  You cannot control it 
>until the stored keystrokes are played out; you end up ramming yourself into
>an enemy jouster from below.

I've noticed this too, although if you press the mouse button, the
jouster will go, and all those stored up commands will be spit out just like
above.  I'm not really sure what's caused this.  I'm running System 7.0

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2fmlcalls@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (05/18/91)

In article <1991May18.000225.29996@ecst.csuchico.edu>, lorner@ecst.csuchico.edu (Lance Orner) writes:
>>was flashing, all the keystrokes are then spit out at blinding speed.  
>>Annoying, when the screen is filled with enemies.  You cannot control it 
>>until the stored keystrokes are played out; you end up ramming yourself into
>>an enemy jouster from below.
> 
> I've noticed this too, although if you press the mouse button, the
> jouster will go, and all those stored up commands will be spit out just like
> above.  I'm not really sure what's caused this.  I'm running System 7.0

Thanks for the feedback.  I've been working on 1.0 this past week off and on. 
You can bet this little "feature" will go bye-bye.  Don't worry about your set
up (I'm running Sys 7 too).  What I *don't* do is flush out all the 'flaps'
that you accumulate.  As per why the space bar is not recognized as a "release
me" signal, I've never encountered this.  I'll sift through the code though and
see if I can't make this more reliable.

So now I'm wondering - is that it for bugs?  Only that?  Wow.
BTW I'm also trying to shave a few milliseconds here and there to pick up the
game speed when you get over two enemies (past level 10).

john calhoun