Path: news.cs.au.dk!news.net.uni-c.dk!newsfeed1.uni2.dk!news.algonet.se!algonet!uninett.no!news-feed.ifi.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Alf-Ivar Holm Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: tron - X11 multi-player game (Long) Date: 06 Apr 2000 14:51:06 +0200 Organization: The Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <8cccd8$dr4l4$1@xinwen.cs.au.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: naglfar.ifi.uio.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 955025466 6343 129.240.64.54 (6 Apr 2000 12:51:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Apr 2000 12:51:06 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.6 Xref: news.cs.au.dk comp.lang.beta:12287 Erik Corry writes: > Great. All development on BETA has now come to a stop while we > 'test' your game :-). Happy to keep you active. :-) > There was a problem in that if you held the turn keys down, the autorepeat > would make you go around in circles and crash into yourself. Yes, I knew about that one, but considered it a feature. :-) (If you drive your bike and then violently steer left for some time, some things are bound to go - boom.) > (That last part of the patch is a workaround for a thinko we > have in the find method in BETA 5.0 and later. A "thinko"? Have I been away from BETA for too long or is there some genericterminology I am missing? > This unfortunately needs a patch to xtenvbody.bet in order to > switch on detectable autorepeats. X11 added this feature in > X11R6, though they still default to the old broken behaviour > of synthesising KeyRelease events when autorepeating. Should > be harmless on old servers that don't support it. So, the patch will only work on X11R6. Right? > If you don't mind, since the game is GPL'ed and fun, we will include > it on future BETA CD's and downloads in the 'demo' subdirectory. Please do! ... along with all the other unknown BETA games out there! Affi