Note: There's another port of this game now by Zub who tells me that his port is better. I don't disbelieve this assertion. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \\\\\\\\\ Manic Miner PC v1.00 ///////// ///////// Linux version 1.20beta \\\\\\\\\ Original ZX Spectrum version by Matthew Smith 1997 DOS version by Andy Noble - andy@andyn.demon.co.uk Linux port by Adam D. Moss - adam@foxbox.org This README describes the Linux port of Manic Miner. For more information concerning how to play the game itself, please see the file README.dos from Andy's DOS version. Remember; F1 brings up the options menu, F10 quits. WHAT IS THIS ? -------------- This is the Linux port of an excellent port of an excellent game which first appeared on the ZX Spectrum in 1984. This binary requires a working SVGAlib (plain VGA, nothing fancy), and a sound card if you wish to have sound. WHY ? ----- Manic Miner is a great game, one of the true landmarks in platform gaming. When I saw that Andy Noble had rewritten it in C with enhanced graphics and released the source code, I couldn't resist seeing Manic Miner resurrected natively on my favourite platform. HOW ? ----- Manic Miner PC was basically ported to Linux/SVGAlib in three hours, was in good shape after another two hours, and had sound in another two hours. However, the DOS version uses a binary-only library, MIDAS, for sound and music. I have reimplemented the appropriate portion of the MIDAS API on top of MikMod, for full sound and music. SOURCE ------ The source for this Linux port will be released RSN. Keep bugging me. When I have time I will make a Manic Miner Linux page at http://www.ws.pipex.com/home/adam/mm/ so you can check if there have been more recent versions released. The source (and binary) for the native DOS version of Manic Miner PC is to be found at Andy's home page: http://www.andyn.demon.co.uk/ If you try the DOS version, please tell me how the speed/whatever compares with the Linux version, as I've never seen or played the DOS version. Have fun! Adam D. Moss adam@foxbox.org TO DO ----- * Keyboard overhaul - partially done, for X11 * X11 port - partially done * GGI port * Why is MikMod so whacky? - try a more recent version * See if Andy wants to let me make this GPL'd. REVISIONS --------- 1.00 beta 97/12/07 - Initial Linux release. Binary/SVGA only. 1.05 beta 97/12/25 - Added music and better sound support using the MikMod 3.0.1 library. 1.06 beta 98/07/25 - Recompiled for a not-crap libc5/svgalib so that hopefully more people can run the binary. SOURCE SOON. 1.20 beta 99/06/16 - Partially done X11 port, dirty source release. Largely run out of time and interest.