1. RE: board games
>From: david <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
>Reply-To: EUforum at topica.com
>To: EUforum at topica.com
>Subject: board games
>Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 09:40:32 -0700
>
>posted by: david <studmeow at hotmail.com>
>
>So far, several classic games have been covered in Euphoria.
>Chess/Checkers
>Othello (Reversi)
>several tile matching examples (including Mahjong)
>Sobokan
Sokoban?
>I haven't seen solitaire, but the Reaper's engine should help.
>Paper Rock Scissors
>Hexy (if it's the same one, it was once available as a board game)
>
>Games I'd like to see:
>Dominoes/Trionimos
>Go
A very hard game for which to make a computer program. It is said to be=
harder than Chess. You don't see an IBM computer that plays Go because all=
it does is look at all the possible moves and counter-moves. There are
substantially more moves in playing a game of Go. That's not to say there=
aren't any algorithms to play Go, I just haven't looked for them yet.
>Tri-level chess (Star Trek style)
I'm pretty sure there's a DOS version of this.
>a version of 3-player chess (VERY big in Europe)
>Four Winds version Mahjong
As in multiplayer? I haven't seen what the already-written versions can=
do yet.
>Hanafuda solitaire & multiplayer versions
Hanafuda-what?
>BACKGAMMON!!!
>
>Also, I've acquired some PD source code for a vector graphics engine.
>I'd like someone to port it to Euphoria. Interested parties please email
>me at studmeowAThotmailDOTcom
>
What sort of code is it?
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2. RE: board games
Sobokan (sic) my bad, lol.
;
There are several good PC versions at the Home of the Underdogs. Also
there's an interesting commercial version whose premise is simply, 'Study
life and death' for those who wish to master it (an oriental thing.) It
would be interesting to know how their engine is constructed, since those
who have played it have increased their skill level immeasurably. Unfortu-
nately, I can't remember the name of it.
www.smart-games.com has a few good versions. They also have good versions
of other board games, like chess & Othello.
Hanafuda is an oriental cardset. The usual standard decks we know have 4
suits & a rank of 13 cards. A hanafuda deck has only a rank of 4 (for the
four seasons), but 12 suits for the 12 months of the year. They're often
called the 'flower' cards because of the depictions on the cards.
The Underdogs have two good versions:
Ian Bowes' Hana-fuda (search for it spelled that way or it won't find it)
Scott Kim's Heaven & Earth (a compilation of several original puzzles with
a solitaire game).
What sort of code is it?
I believe it's QuickBasic, because one of the folders is named Qb & the
code looks somewhat like a dialect of BASIC.
Here's a selection from one of the files.
.386p
jumps
code32 segment para public use32
assume cs:code32, ds:code32
use_half_stars equ no ; use full stars or half stars. (full=set to no)
perfect_stars equ no ; fast star calculation if no, perfect if yes.
include pmode.ext ; protected mode externals
include xmode.ext ; include externals for xmode
routines
include 3d.ext
include equ.inc
include macros.inc
public _star_plot
public _star_colour
public _star_halfpoint
public _star_step
Thanks for responding.
3. RE: board games
> What sort of code is it?
> I believe it's QuickBasic, because one of the folders is named Qb & the
> code looks somewhat like a dialect of BASIC.
> Here's a selection from one of the files.
>
>
> .386p
> jumps
>
> code32 segment para public use32
> assume cs:code32, ds:code32
>
> use_half_stars equ no ; use full stars or half stars. (full=set to
> no)
> perfect_stars equ no ; fast star calculation if no, perfect if yes.
>
> include pmode.ext ; protected mode externals
> include xmode.ext ; include externals for xmode
> routines
> include 3d.ext
> include equ.inc
> include macros.inc
>
> public _star_plot
> public _star_colour
> public _star_halfpoint
> public _star_step
>
> Thanks for responding.
>
This to me is not QB but instead, MASM32 code...
(maybe...)
Euman
4. RE: board games
david wrote:
[snip]
> What sort of code is it?
> I believe it's QuickBasic, because one of the folders is named Qb & the
> code looks somewhat like a dialect of BASIC.
> Here's a selection from one of the files.
>
>
> .386p
> jumps
>
> code32 segment para public use32
> assume cs:code32, ds:code32
>
> use_half_stars equ no ; use full stars or half stars. (full=set to
> no)
> perfect_stars equ no ; fast star calculation if no, perfect if yes.
>
> include pmode.ext ; protected mode externals
> include xmode.ext ; include externals for xmode
> routines
> include 3d.ext
> include equ.inc
> include macros.inc
>
> public _star_plot
> public _star_colour
> public _star_halfpoint
> public _star_step
This is Intel-based assembler code, not BASIC.
--
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
5. RE: board games
Derek Parnell wrote:
>
> This is Intel-based assembler code, not BASIC.
The majority of the files are written in this form of code. There's some
readme files, and for some reason, a few batch files. Upon reading the
text, I discovered a few things:
The batch files are setup for input, I think just to show a few examples.
There's three called M1 - M3 respectively. Clicking on the file terminates
with a screen relaying info about parameters. (I really wish I'd stuck
with DOS instead of being hooked into Windoze...)
The DXF23DV folder has assorted files & some batch files. Like 'ASM',
'Example', & a few others.
There's some info about being able to integrate with AutoCAD to create
vector type graphics. If we can successfully port this to Euphoria, can
we still use AutoCAD, or maybe Exotica?
There are files for keyboard support (of course), as well as mouse &
joystick support.
Of course, there's some contact info, but since this is almost 10 years
old, the info may no longer be valid.
Thanks for your input.
