Short: Frozen Bubble, nice game written in perl Author: Guillaume Cottenceau (port by Andy Broad) Uploader: andy broad ology org uk (Andy Broad) Type: game/misc Version: 1.0.0 Requires: perl 5.8.5.04, abc-shell Architecture: ppc-amigaos >= 4.0.0 Here is a port of the popular game Frozen Bubble, written by Guillaume Cottenceau et al in perl using the SDL_perl extention. See http://www.frozen-bubble.org for more info. This port is for amigaos4 and requires perl 5.8.5.04 perl 5.8.5 (4th amiga os4 release with dynamic loading and POSIX extention). It will not work with any earlier version of perl for amigaos4. It incorporates a special build of SDL_perl which combines the SDL_perl with the fb_c_stuff modules. (This gets arround a problem where the two need to interact on a level my current dynamic loading implementatuion doesn't allow), [please note if you want SDL_perl for something else, please wait for a short while, don't use this version....] This port stores all it configs (.fbrc .fblevels etc) in bubbles: (or /bubbles in unix parlance). The provided start script "fb" sets up and removes the assign for you. If you wish to run from the command line "by hand" you will need to add it your self. UPDATE: o relink against older SDL, music and sound problems fixed. o increased sound buffer size to 4096 as recomended by toaks. o found a few more instances of $ENV{HOME} replaced them with /bubbles. o added a timidity config to stop SDL from looking for it in /usr/local/lib I suspect though that it's not actually used. These changes should get most of the glitches people were getting. Installation: Just unpack to the destination of your choice. To run: Click on the icon or.... make an assign bubbles: to the directory where you unpacked the game. start abc-shell cd /bubbles launch perl as follows perl -I blib/lib -I blib/arch frozen-bubble Known bugs: Fullscreen mode does not work. Have fun Andy Broad andy()broad.ology.org.uk http://www.broad.ology.org.uk/amiga/