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TAWS version 6 is a towlr game, meaning a game that is likely to frustrate you before you find its solution, if you ever do. As a towlr game anything more given by way of instruction would be a disservice to the game. Pay close attention to how the game reacts to what you type, but if the game’s subtleties prove too much, you can always leverage your advantage.
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TAWS 6 is written by Entar.
January 1st, 2010 - 7:01 pm
This uses a Windows-specific library for it’s graphics rendering. However, I found a Linux port of it and almost have it able to compile properly. But when I run it, no text is drawn to the screen unless I hit ^C, and of course that forces the game to quit and the text STILL isn’t shown properly. This is quite disappointing, as I’m really enjoying playing other towlr games. I also notice that it uses gets(), which AFAIK should not be used as it is highly insecure.
January 19th, 2010 - 9:46 pm
I modified it for osX, using ncurses, but didn’t really spend any time doing it so it could be better. These steps would work for linux or BSD…
Heres’ what I did:
1. remove conio, replace with ncurses.
2. remove the kbhit portions and replace with getch() calls.
Basically, all you’re doing here is waiting for a key, so I just used a simple ‘wait for a key’ routine (:
3. Replaced gets with a secure one, which I just googled for and pasted it in.
Then it compiled, and I’m off solving it.
seriously posting my version of the source isn’t going to help much – I just did the things above. Oh, and used g++ and linked with ncurses, like:
g++ -o tawsv6 -lncurses tawsv6.cpp
at first I was just using gcc and it was giving me errors. I probably should not have had a glass of gin before doing this (:
Oh what the heck here’s a diff. Don’t complain about the code being lame I already said I didn’t spend much time on it and googled the replacement gets code (:
===cut here===
4c4,5
< #include
—
> //#include
> #include
110a112,127
> char *sgets(char *line, size_t size)
> {
> size_t i;
> for ( i = 0; i {
> int ch = fgetc(stdin);
> if ( ch == ‘\n’ || ch == EOF )
> {
> break;
> }
> line[i] = ch;
> }
> line[i] = ”;
> return line;
> }
>
127,131c144,145
< while (1)
< {
< if (_kbhit())
< {
while (1) {
> getch();
134d147
< }
140c153
sgets(input,sizeof input);
154c167
if (getch())
===
January 20th, 2010 - 9:22 am
I don’t think PDCurses was necessary, and I think you’re ending up with something between normal C and PDCurses. But good job getting it to work. One day I’ll have to look at making some changes myself.