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-<div style="text-align: right;"><i><br />idle digits,<br />play,<br />away,<br />idle digits.<br /></i></div><br />So while I am hacking away on v2.4 and <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/tree/experimental">breaking</a> a lot of things. Here is a link to some more <a href="http://home.comcast.net/%7Eg.f.taylor/GarrysGames.html">games</a> for SDL Perl. These only work in windows now but I will look into bringing them to CPAN (with Garry's permission). <br /><br /><i>--yapgh</i><br /><br />These where reported by Garry Taylor. Here is the rest of the email:<br /><br /><blockquote><i>Hi all,</i><br /><i>I hadn't checked this newsgroup in a while and was happy to see </i><br /><i>that it still alive and well. I saw that some people had been sharing </i><br /><i>some SDL Perl games online, and I had a few to share as well. At </i><br /><i>"http://home.comcast.net/~g.f.taylor/GarrysGames.html" you can find four </i><br /><i>games I have written as well as a simple flip book program to let a </i><br /><i>child play at making animation on the computer. The games are "Toad" (a </i><br /><i>Frogger wanna be), "RabbitHat" (like Centipede), "BunnyHunt" (sort of </i><br /><i>like Pac-Man) and "Bonk The Buggies". All (with the exception of Toad </i><br /><i>which in its very first incarnation was a game I wrote in TRS-80 Basic </i><br /><i>back in 1981) were written originally to run on my Windows 3.11 PC for </i><br /><i>my little girl so that she could play games which were not quite so </i><br /><i>violent as games were starting to become at the time.</i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><i>A few years ago I got the idea of trying to get them to run again </i><br /><i>by rewriting them in Perl. The downloads are Windows XP/Vista installs </i><br /><i>which include a bare bones Perl environment for running the games (the </i><br /><i>installs put the code into its own separate place, and shouldn't </i><br /><i>interfere with your existing Perl setups). I did this so that I could </i><br /><i>share the games with friends and family who either don't have SDL </i><br /><i>installed, don't have Perl installed, or don't do any programming and </i><br /><i>just needed something that will run. The code as it currently stands </i><br /><i>was not written for general publication, so there are probably places </i><br /><i>where the Perl code itself is not always the best looking it could be, </i><br /><i>but the games themselves work pretty well. Also, it is worth noting </i><br /><i>that I wound up being lazy and made a few additions to the Perl SDL code </i><br /><i>that I was using to add an additional function or two for printing text </i><br /><i>onto the screen that was centered or right aligned.</i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><i>While I have not made any Unix installs for the code, I have </i><br /><i>actually run the games on a few Linux machines that I have access to, </i><br /><i>where I also had installed SDL. I have not updated my SDL installs in </i><br /><i>several years now, so there may be complications that arise if running </i><br /><i>it with a new version of SDL.</i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><i>I hope you enjoy the games (or at least aren't too mean about it </i><br /><i>if you don't).</i><br /><i>Garry Taylor</i></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-500220938152318100?l=yapgh.blogspot.com'/></div></div></div>
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+<h3>Updates</h3>Ok so my blog posts have gone down a bit due to me using my fingers for coding. We have started to get some updates to SDL docs so that good. Also some of the tutorials are shaping up. This is what I have been hacking this past week.<br />
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+You can grab the <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/TetrisPL">code</a>. Note you will have to install deps yourself. Read the README file. It is not a tutorial yet, because it was hacked together in ~50 hours. But it playable now. During building this I found out that MacOSX (and Snow Leopard) has died again.<br />
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+<h3>Hackfest</h3>So with dngor's help this sunday (27/09/09) we will have a hackfest to fix MacOSX support. Anyone with a MacOSX and wants to help is welcome on <a href="http://widget.mibbit.com/?settings=89f140215d60860684cee2f6a917607f&server=irc.perl.org&channel=%23sdl">#sdl irc.perl.org</a>. We will also try to fix up a lot of docs and the tutorial for a early next week release. Also if we can we will migrate to the new site.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-7382145297295717151?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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