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https://github.com/jgoerzen/netmaze

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Netmaze - V0.81 - April 1994

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[Don't run this version with older ones!!!!]

[there were changes in the netprotocol from v0.62 to v0.7 to 0.8 !!]



  written and copyrights (c) by M.Hipp

  email: 

     [email protected]



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 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

 (at your option) any later version.



 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

 GNU General Public License for more details.



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This is the pre-release of a multiplayercombatgame.

I release this incomplete version, because I think, that I

won't have the time to complete it in the next months.

In this version there still bugs, but you can play it (I hope) without

getting 'core's. Most of the bugs are in the gfx/clip-functions (and the

netserv, of course).



What is netmaze:

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Netmaze is a client/server multiplayergame.

You play in a virtuell maze and the goal of the game is to hunt down

your opponents. The view is full animated 3D. On fast machines, you can

even run it smooth with texturemaping at the walls and the floor.



The game requires:

  - fast X11-Grafix (copying offscreen-pixmap/image to the foreground-window, 

    drawing polygons)

  - a (semi)fast Network with 'ping'-times lower than 30ms from EVERY client to 

    the servermachine. (if one connection isn't fast enough, it slows down 

    all players.) (For LAN's (e.g. in a pool) this shouldn't be a problem!)

    (if your network isn't fast enough, you can try to change the beat-divider

     in the netserv from 1 to 2 or 4 and/or start it with -nowait) 



Don't try to patch the code if you want to cheat. It should be near

impossible.



I have tested the program on HPUX,SunOS4.1.3 and Linux-Machines.

There is a RS6000 & NeXT port. (see CREDITS)

It was also reported, that the program runs on SGI and DEC 5000 machines.



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******** FOR LINUX: You have to compile the IPC-Stuff in your kernel *******

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If you find any bugs or port netmaze to a new environment, please let me know. 

I'm also happy about fanmails, showing me that the hundreds of hours I spend 

since late 1991 to code this game weren't a waste of time.



Hope you enjoy it, 

                  Mike 



how to install: (short! ;-) )

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 - Get an ANSI-C-Compiler. (in the Makefile, 'gcc' is selected).

 - Now there is an Imakefile. Just type 'xmkmf' to create a Makefile for

   your machine. (there is also an alternate Makefile (Makefile.alt), which

   you can use, if there is a problem with the 'imake'-generated one.

 - Now you have to select one of the environments in the config.h file.

 - Sorry, but a lot of the comments/names in the program are in german, 

   so this won`t help.

 - The warnings about the 'select'-command aren't important.

 - if your system doesn't support asyncronous input/output you can try to

     add a: '#define USE_IPC' at the the end of the config.h file.

 - if your machine doesn't support the shared memory extension for X11, remove

   the -DSH_MEM in the Makefile/Imakefile.



how to use:  (short help with 'netmaze -h')

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  Start the server 'netserv' on a machine. 

  Then every player can start his netmaze-client.

  example: netmaze -server 

  Without calling a server-machine the program enters

  a one-player-(team)-test-mode.

  The 'dummy' is a demo-robot. You can connect some of them

  to the netserv if you want more enemies. (But this 

  demo-robot is really a stupid one.) 

  You can write your own robots. (see dummy.c) 

  Always try to run the netmaze-client on a machine with 

  less load and in the foreground.

  You can first do a 'xset -r' if you want a better 

  keyboard-handling. (use 'xset r' to switch it on again.)

  You can select a teammode by adding a teamlist

  to the (2)-Command in the netserv.

  You can select an extended (and an extended just-for-fun) mode.

  Set the NETMAZE_NAME or NETMAZE_COMMENT environment-variable to choose

  another default name and comment.



known bugs: (this is still a preversion!!)

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  x11: (some) bugs in the refresh

  gfx: bugs in the (re)sort and clip-functions

  allmove: sometimes the game is out-of-sync (different machines are having 

           different game-states) (I hope, that I found it)

           somtimes problems with shot-rebounce

  textures in huge-mode: sometimes cores. (I think that's an overflow)

  .. and many more .. ;-)