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SDLRoids is essentially an Asteroids clone, but with a few extra
features, and some nice game physics. It is based of xhyperoid,
which is a UNIX port of the 16-bit Windows game Hyperoid. Major
changes from xhyperoid are that it's using SDL for sound and graphics,
has a couple of extra powerups and and that the shield behaves
differently.
The game can either run in windowed mode or in fullscreen mode. You
can (usually) switch between them during play by pressing Alt-Enter.
The play area (apart from the score/lives/etc. display) is square
and centred, just like in the the original Hyperoid did. This might
not might not change, bug for now that is how it works.
WWW: http://david.hedbor.org/projects/sdlroids/
Changes:
- When tuning text options at run time like the password the server
would crash. This has now been fixed.
- Clients now support the firewall patch.
For this the client has two new options: -clientPortStart and -clientPortEnd.
- A new server option -passwordFileName gives the path to a file which
only contains a definition for the server password. The advantage
of this is that you can set the file permissions so that others
cannot read its contents.
- Fix -blockFrictionVisible (didn't work)
- Ben Armstrong fixed a bug where ball ownership for all connected balls
would be reset whenever a player would leave.
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The game is set in Moria and the goal is to kill off the balrog.
Apart from this, the game is almost completely based on Dungeons &
Dragons. The game is a true classic and every true gamer should
have played it.
It was originally written by Robert Alan Koeneke with some help
from Jimmy Wayne Todd. Further development of the game has almost
ceased, but The Pits of Angband, which is based on its code, is
still very much in development.
WWW: http://www-math.bgsu.edu/~grabine/moria.html
