Date:  Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:23:46 -0500
From:  madodel <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: Rocksndiamonds ported to OS/2


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From: Paul Smedley <paulDESPAM at DESPAMsmedley.info> 


Hi All,
Someone was talking about rocksndiamonds on OS/2 - and as it uses SDL -  I
thought I'd try and build it :)

The initial result is available from  http://smedley.info/os2ports.html

The necessary SDL dll's are included.

The Innotek GCC 3.3.5 runtime is also required - 
http://smedley.info/libc06r1.zip

Full details on Rocks'n'Diamonds from its homepage at 
http://www.artsoft.org/rocksndiamonds/

It is an arcade style game for Unix, Mac OS X, Windows and DOS in the 
tradition of:
    + "Boulder Dash" (C 64)
    + "Emerald Mine" (Amiga)
    + "Supaplex" (Amiga/PC)
    + "Sokoban" (PC)

Other features:
- network multiplayer games (upto 4 players) for Unix platform - local
multiplayer games (upto 4 players) for all supported platforms - soft
scrolling with 50 frames per second
- freely customizable keyboard and joystick support
- stereo sound effects and music
- music modules and fullscreen in SDL version
- contains levels to play Boulder Dash, Emerald Mine and Sokoban - lots of
additional levels available (over 10.000)
- distributed with full source code under the GNU General Public License -
available for Unix (all flavors), DOS and Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP) -
known to work under BeOS and Mac OS X
- should compile on any platform supporting either X11 or SDL


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