vNibbles
map-editor
The editor makes modifying and creating of maps really easy. You can download it in a separate package on the download-page. All my maps are now included in the nibbles-exe-package, but not in the source package!
joystick-support
vNibbles can use two different joystick-units. The one included in nibbles.exe is more reliable, but slower. If it should be too slow for you (check input rate by changing the line "testmode=0" in "nibbles.ini" to "testmode=1"), try using the second version. Both units are included in the source-package (see readme). A binary file with alternative joystick-support is included in the package, it is called nib_JoyA.exe
readNib.txt
vNibbles ver 1.11 Multi-Player-Game für DOS. (C) 99/00 Vlado Plaga.
0. NEWS
I. INFO
II. MAPS
III. JOYSTICK
IV. COPYING
0. NEWS
New in version 1.20 is the scoring system.
And some mouse-usage in the menues.
I. INFO
vNibbles is simply Nibbles for up to five players.
Think that everyone knows "Nibbles" (some call it "snake")...
II. MAPS
Editing the levels is easy - with the new vNibbles-Map-Editor it’s even
easier then before. But if you still want to know how the ASCII-files are
read by Nibbles have a closer look at the following...
Lines starting with "//" are comments.
You can define which colors to use:
"wall color=4" [0-7]
"background color=9" [8-15]
Everything in the following lines, that is not wall ([...])
or starting point ("1l", "2r", "3u", "4d", "1L", "1R",...), has no effect.
The letters tell the program in which directions the snakes should start
moving: [...]
III. JOYSTICK
joystick.pas (nibblesA) by Ronny Wester, ronny <at> rat.se
joystckb.pas (nibblesB) by te-wi Verlag, München
Thank you!
I included joystick support for use with my two (digital) gamepads,
but it is possible, to play with (analogous) joysticks, too. You might
have to fine-tune the calibration values in "nibbles.ini" (Some sticks
show momentary extremely high values, correct them to the "normal"
value). The source-code-package includes "nibbjoyA.pas" and
"nibbjoyB.pas". Depending on which you rename to "nibbljoy.pas"
eigther "joystick.pas" or "joystckB.pas" is being used by the game.
IV. COPYING
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.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Source code, new versions, new maps and much more (the GPL. too;) are
avaible on:
http://vlado.de.vu
eMail: vlado <at> gmx.net
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