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- Pilot Mines is a little freeware application, modelled after an X11
- minesweeper clone (which in turn was modelled after the original MS game).
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- The controls are fairly easy (if you know the game): tapping on a covered
- field will uncover it (like the left mouse button in the original game),
- tapping on an uncovered field does the same as pressing the middle mouse
- button in the original game, tapping on a covered field while pressing the
- page up or page down button toggles flagging that field (that's what the
- right mouse button does).
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- Thanks to Dylan Ginsburg <dylan@mailzone.com> for suggesting another
- controls scheme: instead of using the page up/down keys all the time, the
- first tap on a covered field will flag it, the second will uncover it.
- Pressing the page up/down key while tapping a covered field toggles the flag
- as before. This scheme is selectable via preferences menu (it's called
- Dylan style controls :-).
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- The program source is supplied, in case anybody is interested in this four
- day hack -- I've actually found out how to connect gdb to xcopilot (see the
- comments for the Show() function :-). The Makefile and .rcp file is setup
- for use under Unix, you probably have to change things to make it work under
- Windows.
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- There is some sort of locale support: you can compile Pilot Mines as german
- or english version. Simply set the LANGUAGE variable in the Makefile.
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- mine-en.prc is the english version of the program,
- mine-de.prc the german version.
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- Have fun with it,
- Thomas
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