Spaceball Source Code

[Adeel Hasan Akbari]

Hi!
I'm new to this field.
Actually i'm a new programmer. And i've never worked in C.

It is my humble request to you to provide me with the source code for
Spaceball (the game in which there's a ball...etc).

Thanks in Anticipation

 

[Adeel Hasan Akbari]

Pardon, That wasn't quite helpful!

 

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Hi!
I'm new to this field.
Actually i'm a new programmer. And i've never worked in C.

It is my humble request to you to provide me with the source code for
Spaceball (the game in which there's a ball...etc).

Thanks in Anticipation

:^|

 

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Pardon, That wasn't quite helpful!

Perhaps:

spaceball+c+"source-code"

I never played the game...

 

[Adeel Hasan Akbari]

Thanks ... But that doesn't work either...I tried it on Google!

 

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Thanks ... But that doesn't work either...I tried it on Google!

Well, I never played spaceball; please educate me?

 

[Adeel Hasan Akbari]

----------Wikipedia----------
SpaceBall was a miniature video game appearing on several models of LG
brand mobile phones. The game was similar in concept to Snake, a title
that was packaged with many Nokia brand cellular phones.

OBJECT:
The object of the game was to guide a small animal, the head of which
resembled a rabbit with the horn of a unicorn, around a playing field
gathering colored balls. The player had a set amount of time to clear
the board without running into itself or a wall, or letting itself
grow too long. If a player did any of these, or ran out of time, he
lost a life (referred to as a "fail" in the game) and had to restart
the level from the beginning. Failing four times ended the game; no
extra lives were offered at any point in the game.
----------Wikipedia----------

 

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Well, I never played spaceball; please educate me?

So far, the only info I have is that, humm... Well let me quote one of your
sentences:

(The game in which there's a ball...etc)


(Football... Volleyball... Soccer... Baseball... ect)



Perhaps...

(Football in orbit... Volleyball on the moon... Soccer on mars... Baseball
in galaxy 4, solar system 2, planet 8, moon 5... ect)

?


:^|

 

[Adeel Hasan Akbari]

Here's the entire article on Spaceball: (Source: Wikipedia)
[Continued from previous post]
Each of the game's twenty levels grew progressively harder. The first
level simply contained an open field, of which the character could
leave one side and re-enter the screen immediately on the other. Later
levels introduced borders around the field to prevent such exit and re-
entry; walls, blocks, and other obstacles in the middle of the screen;
and finally all-out mazes with narrow paths that strictly limited the
animal's range of motion.
A level always began with three red segments attached to the
creature's head. Eating any red balls with only these segments
attached would not cause the animal to grow. Eating any other colored
ball caused it to attach as a segment to the tail end of the creature,
as did eating a red ball with segments of any other color already on
the animal.

A player could clear segments off the animal by attaching three balls
of the same color to its tail. This could be done by simply eating
three of the same color in a row, or by eating one or two of one
color, eating three of another (clearing them), then eating a third
(or a second and a third) of the original color. The importance of
shortening the body was twofold: a longer creature ran a more
dangerous risk of running into itself and dying immediately; also, if
a player cleared the board while the character's body was too long
(indicated by a number in the corner of the screen), the player failed
(lost a life) and had to restart the level.
Occasionally, a flashing bonus ball appeared on the playing screen.
This ball was white with a red dot in the middle, and its appearance
was marked by the player's phone vibrating. If the animal ate the
bonus ball, one of four random effects would occur:

* The timer resetting to full
* The character's tail resetting to three red segments
* All remaining balls on the field changing to the color of the
last one eaten
* All balls changing color and position.

Two of these bonus balls appeared per life, per level.

_____________________COMMENT_______________
I don't want such a complex game - Just a single level game which
performs the basic function!

 

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Oh crap... Sorry for misquoting you! Your sentence was exactly:

"It is my humble request to you to provide me with the source code for
Spaceball (the game in which there's a ball...etc)."





Sorry about that non-sense.

 

[Adeel Hasan Akbari]

why not ask your teacher?

Smart Question - Its an Assignment - And i don't have a clue how to do
it!!!

I missed those lectures!!!

 

[Chris M. Thomasson]

----------Wikipedia----------
SpaceBall was a miniature video game appearing on several models of LG
brand mobile phones. The game was similar in concept to Snake, a title
that was packaged with many Nokia brand cellular phones.

OBJECT:
The object of the game was to guide a small animal, the head of which
resembled a rabbit with the horn of a unicorn, around a playing field
gathering colored balls. The player had a set amount of time to clear
the board without running into itself or a wall, or letting itself
grow too long. If a player did any of these, or ran out of time, he
lost a life (referred to as a "fail" in the game) and had to restart
the level from the beginning. Failing four times ended the game; no
extra lives were offered at any point in the game.
----------Wikipedia----------

Well, try here:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/search?group=comp.lang.c&q=snake+game

http://www.mycplus.com/out.asp?CID=1&SCID=66

why not ask your teacher?

 

[Richard Bos]

Smart Question - Its an Assignment - And i don't have a clue how to do
it!!!

I missed those lectures!!!

So now you expect _us_ to do _your_ homework because _you_ were too lazy
to turn up for class? Do the world a favour, and fail the course.

Richard

 

[Adeel Hasan Akbari]

Thanks So much for the help....

At least i now have something to go on...!

But I need SPaceball - not Snake...!


Thanks Again!

 

[Adeel Hasan Akbari]

So now you expect _us_ to do _your_ homework because _you_ were too lazy
to turn up for class? Do the world a favour, and fail the course.

Richard

Hey! Thats cruel!

Believe me, i won't fail. As for the request for the code _ Get a life
- I requested the code since the code i designed is a complete dud.
The code doesn't even reach the compilation stage!!!!

 

[Chris M. Thomasson]

[...]

Actually, I programmed a snake game when I was just a little kid; the game
itself is really nothing new at all...

 

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Smart Question - Its an Assignment - And i don't have a clue how to do
it!!!

I missed those lectures!!!

Ummmm... PLEASE; talk to your teacher one-on-one. I am quite sure she/he is
a very nice person who would love to give you a boat load of pointers. Every
teacher I have ever met gets really pissed off when one of their students
fails... Especially when they NEVER ask for HELP! Don't you DARE be
intimidated! Just ask for help; be humble and state your case! If your
teacher scolds you, think about if you truly deserve it or not! You missed
lectures... Were/Are you sick? What's the problem? Got a doctors note? Ouch!

;^|

 

[CBFalconer]

Thanks ... But that doesn't work either...I tried it on Google!

If you want to post a followup via groups.google.com, ensure you
quote enough for the article to make sense. Google is only an
interface to Usenet; it's not Usenet itself. Don't assume your
readers can, or ever will, see any previous articles.

More details at: <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/>

 

[Jens Thoms Toerring]

----------Wikipedia----------
SpaceBall was a miniature video game appearing on several models of LG
brand mobile phones. The game was similar in concept to Snake, a title
that was packaged with many Nokia brand cellular phones.

What makes you believe that it was written in C at all? And if it
was that there would be much you would be able to use? And if it
was on Nokia phones where did you get the idea that they would
have released the sources for it?

I guess your best chance is that continue to try to write your own
implementation of the game. If you do it in C and have problems with
the C part of the task this here is the right group to ask for help
(but note that e.g. graphics are system specific and you have to
look for a group that deals with the details of that). If you want
full sources for something (assuming that they exist and the author
is prepared to share it) then there's alt.source.wanted (but I would
not hold my breath waiting for a reply...)

Regards, Jens

 

[Kenneth Brody]

Hey! Thats cruel!

That's life. "I can't do my work, so you should do it for me because
I can't be bothered to figure things out" deserves such a reply.

Believe me, i won't fail. As for the request for the code _ Get a life
- I requested the code since the code i designed is a complete dud.
The code doesn't even reach the compilation stage!!!!

So, you can't even get your code to compile, and you think you won't
fail the course? Well, unless you get someone to do it for you, it
sounds like you certainly deserve to fail.

Now, if you want to post the code that you're having problems with,
and ask for help on correcting those problems, by all means do so.
However, given the description of the game, I assume there will be
plenty of system-specific questions you have, and they need to be
asked elsewhere.

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