Keywords: game, svgalib, asteroids, arcade

Hello,

This is to announce the release of Sasteroids v1.3, a svgalib (not X)
asteroids-type game with joystick support. 

This is a minor release with a few bug fixes, a new spacey-looking
background during game play, speed enhancements, and small changes to the
game play. (No sound yet -- its coming 8-)

There are both binary and source releases.  You only need one, preferrably
the source release because there are a few compile-time options to play
with.  The binary release is for those of you without recent versions of
gcc/g++ or svgalib installed.

Note: you don't need large amounts of memory/swap space to compile this
version, as compared to previous releases.

I have uploaded it to:
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming/sasteroids1.3-src.tar.gz  (source)
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming/sasteroids1.3-bin.tar.gz  (binary)

where it will probably be moved to:
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/games/video/sasteroids1.3-src.tar.gz
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/games/video/sasteroids1.3-bin.tar.gz


and tsx-11.mit.edu where it will probably be moved into:
/pub/linux/sources/usr.games/sasteroids1.3-src.tar.gz
/pub/linux/binaries/usr.games/sasteroids1.3-bin.tar.gz


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Note: You need gcc 2.5.8, c++ libraries, and svgalib 1.11 (or greater)
to compile the source release. Svgalib is available at sunsite.unc.edu,
tsx-11.mit.edu and other linux ftp site.
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--brad
pitzel@cs.sfu.ca