From laferrie@iro.umontreal.ca Tue Jun 29 22:00:36 1993 Received: from saguenay.IRO.UMontreal.CA by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.3) id AA15048; Tue, 29 Jun 93 22:00:33 PDT Received: from brisay.iro.umontreal.ca by saguenay.IRO.UMontreal.CA (4.1-SMI/MX) id AA26172; Wed, 30 Jun 93 01:00:25 EDT Return-Path: Message-Id: <9306300500.AA14543@brisay.iro.umontreal.ca> From: laferrie@iro.umontreal.ca (/usr/spool/mail/laferrie) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 01:00:24 -0400 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.4 2/2/92) To: zerkle@cs.ucdavis.edu Subject: ArmyMiner v1.3 Status: RO Hello Dan, I've just finished (1 hour ago!) the new version of ArmyMiner. This one has a nice UNDO option and board display is a last faster. That plus a few fixes. You would be very kind to post the announce for that new version. Here it is: ----- ArmyMiner v1.3 Release Announce ----- TITLE ArmyMiner VERSION 1.3 AUTHOR Alain Laferriere laferrie@iro.umontreal.ca DESCRIPTION ArmyMiner is a logic board game where some of the squares do contain bombs. When clicked, the bomb-free squares display the number of bombs in their neighbourhood. The objective of the game is for the user to mark all the squares having bombs in a minimum of time. The game requires good concentration and offers a very interesting mental challenge. There are many instances of that game on different platforms (Minesweeper on IBM-compatible, XMines on XWindows, etc). ArmyMiner does integrate all of the good aspects I've seen on all the versions of that game available on personal computers. FEATURES In addition to the conventional XMines-type features, it has: - Automatically mark or clean the neighbours of a square - Safe start (no explosion at first click) - Safe click (gadget-like behavior for squares) - Question marks (for configuration analysis) - A PAUSE option - An UNDO option that lets you restart a game after an explosion You can also specify your own custom board settings. The game has sound effects, high-score tables and a very nice interface. It works on either OS v1.3 or 2.0, under NTSC or PAL. CHANGES The new features since v1.2 are: - Addition of the UNDO option - The displayed values when moving the CUSTOM requester sliders were not properly updated are that has now been fixed. - When you opened the CUSTOM requester while a game was in progress, the timer kept on incrementing. This has also been fixed. - Initial board display speed and other board refreshes have been greatly improved. - The default dimensions for the EXPERT board have been changed from 25 by 25 to 30 by 25 (maximal size) which offers an even greater challenge. HOST NAME amiga.physik.unizh.ch (130.60.80.80) Also available on its mirrors sites. DIRECTORY pub/aminet/game/think FILE NAMES ArmyMiner_1.3.lzh ArmyMiner_1.3.readme PRICE None, freeware. DISTRIBUTABILITY ArmyMiner is freeware, binary only. You are free to use it as long as you leave my copyright notice intact. You can distribute that program as long as you don't ask any more money for it than a nominal fee for copying, and if you keep the "ArmyMiner.doc" file with it. If you want to include this program in a commercial package, you need my written permission. "Copyright 1993 Alain Laferriere, All rights reserved"