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Hi all,-
-I hadn't checked this newsgroup in a while and was happy to see
-that it still alive and well. I saw that some people had been sharing
-some SDL Perl games online, and I had a few to share as well. At
-"http://home.comcast.net/~g.f.taylor/GarrysGames.html" you can find four
-games I have written as well as a simple flip book program to let a
-child play at making animation on the computer. The games are "Toad" (a
-Frogger wanna be), "RabbitHat" (like Centipede), "BunnyHunt" (sort of
-like Pac-Man) and "Bonk The Buggies". All (with the exception of Toad
-which in its very first incarnation was a game I wrote in TRS-80 Basic
-back in 1981) were written originally to run on my Windows 3.11 PC for
-my little girl so that she could play games which were not quite so
-violent as games were starting to become at the time.
-
-
-A few years ago I got the idea of trying to get them to run again
-by rewriting them in Perl. The downloads are Windows XP/Vista installs
-which include a bare bones Perl environment for running the games (the
-installs put the code into its own separate place, and shouldn't
-interfere with your existing Perl setups). I did this so that I could
-share the games with friends and family who either don't have SDL
-installed, don't have Perl installed, or don't do any programming and
-just needed something that will run. The code as it currently stands
-was not written for general publication, so there are probably places
-where the Perl code itself is not always the best looking it could be,
-but the games themselves work pretty well. Also, it is worth noting
-that I wound up being lazy and made a few additions to the Perl SDL code
-that I was using to add an additional function or two for printing text
-onto the screen that was centered or right aligned.
-
-
-While I have not made any Unix installs for the code, I have
-actually run the games on a few Linux machines that I have access to,
-where I also had installed SDL. I have not updated my SDL installs in
-several years now, so there may be complications that arise if running
-it with a new version of SDL.
-
-
-I hope you enjoy the games (or at least aren't too mean about it
-if you don't).
-Garry Taylor