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- GNU Robbo
- -------------
-
- This is very nice game oryginally written for Atari XL/XE by QXLand.
-
- +---------+
- | History |
- +---------+
- First version of Robbo was created in 1989, and in short time
- has become very popular in "little" Atari's world. Main author -
- Janusz Pelc has made very good job. There're rumours that he had
- written the game 3 months just before his graduation exam ;)
- The PC code was also written by Maciej Miasik.
- Their next product - Robbo Konstructor allowed people to create their
- own levels. The QXLand company where they have been worked
- had sold the rights for PC version of Robbo
- to LK Avalon and then soon had disappeared from the software market.
- AFAIK Avalon has no rights to code and idea on other platforms than
- DOS and Windows. Maciej Miasik also announced that Robbo idea and code
- is now published on free Creative Commons licence (see details at:
- http://www.miasik.net/archive/2006/06/moje-gry-dla-kazdego/)
-
- I just ported it to Linux trying to set Robbo's behaviour as
- similar as it is possible. You can still buy Windows version of Robbo
- in "LK Avalon", with better graphics and new objects and levels.
- Thunor joined to project in 2008 and completelly rebuilded first version.
- Version 0.60 and above was mostly his job ;)
-
- +--------------+
- | Requirements |
- +--------------+
- For compiling you need to have SDL-devel and SDL_ttf library
- installed at your machine. All these libraries can be downloaded
- from http://www.libsdl.org
-
- +--------------+
- | Installation |
- +--------------+
- See COMPILING.
-
- +------+
- | Keys |
- +------+
- Default PC controls :-
-
- Enter Confirm
- Cursors Move
- Cursors + RShift Shoot
- R Restart
- Escape Exit
-
- All keys are reconfigurable and are listed in Options. Digital and
- analogue joysticks are also supported and it's possible to mix input
- devices.
-
- +----------------------+
- | Command Line Options |
- +----------------------+
- GNU Robbo version 0.61
- Usage: gnurobbo [options]
-
- Options:
- -XRESxYRES e.g. -800x480
- -ts n Tile size 16 or 32
- -vpx Maximise the viewport
- -f Run the game fullscreen
-
- The tile size of 16 is used in video modes less than 480x480.
- On suitably large video modes, maximising the viewport will enable you
- to see more of the level but this is considered cheating and is only
- meant for level design and testing. Still, if you are interested in
- designing levels you may want to try ./gnurobbo -800x600 -ts 16 -vpx
-
- +-------------+
- | Level files |
- +-------------+
- You can create own level files - more details can be found in
- original.dat. Don't hesitate to send complete working levels to the
- author. If it's sensible, be sure that it will be attached to official
- game :-)
-
- In the future I plan to release interface for graphical creating levels.
-
- Homepage of this game is available at: http://gnurobbo.sourceforge.net
-
- -- Alus and Thunor
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