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<\/p>\nAn OpenGL based Atari Asteroids clone using Fonts as Asteroids where a spaceship with inertial
\ncontrol has to be maneuvered through an “asteroid field” consisting of words
\nof web pages.<\/p>\n
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DOWNLOAD<\/strong><\/p>\n [ glfast-1.2.zip<\/a> (17M)]<\/strong><\/p>\n Note: This is an experimental version\/rewrite into OpenGL from the original 3Dfx Voodoo2K version that used a custom Mesa library.<\/p>\n SCREENSHOTS<\/strong><\/p>\n README<\/strong><\/p>\n [ This is FAST – FontAsteroids ]<\/p>\n [ INDEX ]<\/p>\n [ 1. ] [ Introduction ] [ Introduction ]<\/p>\n Based on the original Asteroids game console, a spaceship with inertial Effectively, this game is the game with the most levels in the world – every The game was first presented to the public during the net_condition Have fun with the game! [ Version history ]<\/p>\n Ver 1.0 – Sun Sep 19 16:52:02 CEST 1999 Ver 1.1 – Fri Sep 24 12:27:14 CEST 1999 Ver 1.2 – Mon Sep 27 15:38:09 CEST 1999 [ System Requirements ]<\/p>\n * Fast machine (>P2-333) Comments:<\/p>\n – The game was developed (and runs well) with a Voodoo2 card and is running in – The game has fallbacks for keyboard control. These are two slow for proper – To get the wingman working properly with my Soundblaster PCI64 card, I had – To get the analog joystick working properly, it is recommended to get the [ Software Requirements ]<\/p>\n * Linux 2.2.x, glibc 2.x (i.e. Mandrake Linux 6.x) Comments:<\/p>\n – Linux 2.2.x, glibc2.x is recommended, since the program uses pthreads – Glide might not be required if a different GL library is beeing used. See – Mesa is aften already installed, but compiled without Glide support. To – freetype and wget is often already installed on current systems.<\/p>\n – gltt can be downloaded. Compilation is a simple “.\/configure; make; make – libgaudio is included, but is to be considered a seperate package with [ Installation and Control ]<\/p>\n * Compile libgaudio: If enabled, the game tries to open a network connection to another program The keyboard commands are as follows: The analog joystick commands are as follows: The Logitech wingman commands are as follows: [ 6. ]<\/p>\n [ Comments on the Coding Style ]<\/p>\n As you might have noticed, the source code is all in one big file, C-style [ Planned Future Additions and Addons ]<\/p>\n – SpaceMiner mode where one can traktor-beam words around. [ Web links ] (Links from 09\/99)<\/p>\n * See http:\/\/www1.zkm.de\/~bernd\/<\/a> for ESC_to_Begin details. An OpenGL based Atari Asteroids clone using Fonts as Asteroids where a spaceship with inertial control has to be maneuvered through an “asteroid field” consisting of words of web pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[34,29,35,33],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-art","tag-asteroids","tag-games","tag-opengl","tag-zkm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ferzkopp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ferzkopp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ferzkopp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ferzkopp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ferzkopp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ferzkopp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/www.ferzkopp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ferzkopp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ferzkopp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ferzkopp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ferzkopp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.ferzkopp.net\/Software\/glfast\/screenshots\/Screenshot-Selection.png\")
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\n[ 2. ] [ Version history ]
\n[ 3. ] [ System Requirements ]
\n[ 4. ] [ Software Requirements ]
\n[ 5. ] [ Installation and Control ]
\n[ 6. ] [ Comments on the Coding Style ]
\n[ 7. ] [ Planned Future Additions and Addons ]
\n[ 8. ] [ Web Links ]
\n[ 1. ]<\/p>\n
\ncontrol has to be maneuvered through an “asteroid field” consisting of words
\nof a web page. During the game the player fragments the already mangled page
\ncontent from sentences to words, from words to characters, and characters to
\nnothingness.<\/p>\n
\nwebpage could be played as a level … and there are millions of URLs.<\/p>\n
\nExhibition Sept. 1999 at the ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (www.zkm.de). This is
\nalso the reason why there are many german URLs included in the list. For
\ncompleteness, the exhibition webpage texts from the 22\/9\/99 are included.
\nSee file LICENSE for copyright information.<\/p>\n
\n[ 2. ]<\/p>\n
\n* Initial release<\/p>\n
\n* Removed yiff in favour of my own libgaudio system.
\n* Changed web parsing script to load only html files.
\n* Added “supershot”.
\n* Fixed up keyboard controls
\n* Rewrote this README<\/p>\n
\n* Cleaned up fast.C
\n* Added analog joystick driver
\n* Updated README and Makefile
\n[ 3. ]<\/p>\n
\n* Voodoo2 OR Voodoo3 graphics card (see comments below)
\n* Soundcard with joystick port
\n* Analog Joystick OR Logitech WingMan Gamepad (see comments below)<\/p>\n
\nthe exhibition even better with a Voodoo3-3000 card. Nonetheless, Voodoo
\ncards are not really required, since the game is using OpenGL as basis. At
\nthe time of this writing (09\/99) there is are two other options to get the
\ngame to run on a Linux-PC: the Matrox G200 OpenGL drivers and the Nvidia
\nRivaTNT\/2 OpenGL drivers. To enable these, edit the Makefile to set
\nthe new GL libraries and their locations. In the source code, the screen
\nrefresh frequency will have to be set manually.
\nThe Makefile option -DVOODOO2 will set a 800×600 resolution at 75Hz.
\nThe Makefile option -DVOODOO3 will set a 1024×768 resolution at 85Hz.
\nYou must use one.<\/p>\n
\ngameplay, as keydown and keyup events are processed in the event handlers
\nbut not provided the way I need them by glut.
\nYour best bet to add support for your game controller, is to rewrite the
\nreadJoystick() routine in fast.C for your input device. If you manage to
\ndo so, please send me the code to be included in future versions of FAST.
\nThe Makefile option -DLOGITECH_WINGMAN will enable the logitech gamepad.
\nThe Makefile option -JOYSTICK_ANALOG will enable the analog jostick.
\nYou must use one.<\/p>\n
\nto work with the following procedure. Edit the kernel es1371.c file such as to
\nalways enable the joystick port even when compiled as module.
\nAdd these lines:
\n#define CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371_JOYPORT_BOOT 1
\n#define CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371_GAMEPORT 0x200
\nThen edit the joy-logitech.c modules to reflect the nonstandard joystick
\nport. Edit this line to what is shown:
\nstatic int js_lt_port_list[] __initdata = {0x200, 0 };
\nLoad all the modules manually.<\/p>\n
\njoystick 1.2.x package and set up a calibration file. Compile “jscal” and
\nthen run the sequence:
\njscal -c \/dev\/js0
\njscal -p \/dev\/js0 > \/etc\/joystick.cal
\nAnd add a line to your rc script (i.e. \/etc\/rc.d\/rc.local) executing that file
\nsource \/etc\/joystick.cal
\n[ 4. ]<\/p>\n
\n* Joystick driver modules (part of kernel)
\n* Glide 3Dfx library installed (see comments)
\n* Mesa openGL library installed (i.e. Mesa-3.1b2)
\n* freetype TTF rendering library installed
\n* gltt OpenGL-TTF library installed
\n* wget installed (see comments)
\n* libgaudio library (included with glfast)<\/p>\n
\nmultithreading.<\/p>\n
\nthe section “System Requirements”.<\/p>\n
\ninstall Mesa with Glide support, remove existing libraries, get, recompile
\nand install Mesa from the source code.<\/p>\n
\ninstall” sequence. Make sure you add “\/usr\/local\/lib” to “\/etc\/ld.so.conf”.<\/p>\n
\nits own production and update cycle.
\n[ 5. ]<\/p>\n
\ncd libgaudio-1.0; make; cd ..
\n* Edit Makefile and set your graphics card and input device
\n* Compile program in fast directory:
\nmake
\n* If desired, update webpage files with scripts in webpages directory:
\ncd webpages
\nparse_all.sh
\ncreate_list.sh
\ncd ..
\nThis might take a long time. Change pages to be loaded in the “url-list” file.
\n* Make sure sound and joystick driver modules are loaded.
\n* Start the game and blast away:
\n.\/fast<\/p>\n
\nthat is only useful in the exhibition context (asciireflector).
\nThis will fail (unless an asciireflector is running at the specified section)
\nbut this doesn’t affect the game in any way.<\/p>\n
\nESC\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – start the game on title, exit the game otherwise
\nSPACE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – fire shot
\nx\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – fire supershot
\ns\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – start
\nUP\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – thrust
\nDOWN\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – shield
\nLEFT\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – rotate left
\nRIGHT\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – rotate right<\/p>\n
\nUP\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – thrust, select up
\nDOWN\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – shield, select down
\nLEFT\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – rotate left
\nRIGHT\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – rotate right
\nButton1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – fire shot, start
\nButton2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – fire supershot<\/p>\n
\nGamepad – rotate left\/right, select up\/down
\nStart\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – start
\nTrigger – fire shot
\nButtonA\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – shield + thrust
\nButtonB – thrust
\nButtonC\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – shield
\nButtonY\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – fire supershot<\/p>\n
\ninside, C++ outside (for GLTT) and with lots of hardcoded variables. Most of
\nyou will start to shudder and shout. Well, this is how I program and you
\nhave to live with that. \ud83d\ude42 But hey, as long as it works its OK, right!
\nIn retrospect, this is how the computer industry worked for much of the 70s,
\n80s and into the 90s when binary was king – and then it was binary ONLY – we
\nsurvived that too!
\n[ 7. ]<\/p>\n
\n– More input modes: Unix man pages, local filesystems, local files …
\n– Live webpage loading and user URL entry.
\n– Multiplayer modes using a public asciireflector as server.
\n– More special weapons, more fragments, more sound-effects.
\n[ 8. ]<\/p>\n
\n* See http:\/\/www.zkm.de\/<\/a> for the ZKM main page and net_condition exhibition
\ninformation.
\n* See http:\/\/www.linux3d.org\/<\/a> for Linux specific info on 3D hardware and the
\n3Dfx drivers.
\n* See http:\/\/www.mesa3d.org\/<\/a> for info on the MesaGL library.
\n* See http:\/\/services.worldnet.fr\/~rehel\/gltt\/gltt.html<\/a> for info on the GLTT
\nlibrary.
\n* See http:\/\/www.freetype.org\/<\/a> for info on the freetype library
\n* See http:\/\/atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz\/~vojtech\/joystick\/<\/a> for info on the
\nLinux joystick driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"