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Game Sample Source Code, Wave File Play, Midi file
play, DirectX
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Jörg König
Environment: VC++
6
The Tetris Clone
CGTetris
Screen
Sound & Music
Multilinguality
Building the game
Changes in version 1.1
Download
This game was born by
a wish of my wife, an ultimate Tetris fan, to play a
"nice" Tetris on the PC. Many clones of Tetris
in the net were all not good enough (not nice :-),
boring or simply unplayable ...). Buying such a
(comparatively trivial) game
was not an option. So I developed a new clone of this
great game.
The game
includes a lot of code
not developed by me. All these "stolen" codes
came from the internet pages, and I think it's alright to
use it. I will not mention all the developers, whose code
is inside the game (I
fear I will forget somebody). If you're interested, you
might look into the sources
to retrieve this information. Some parts of the
"stolen" code
were modified, so please refer to the related original article
in the codeguru's pages rather than extracting it from the
game's source!
Screen
To have a little bit of fun,
your screen settings should support at least 256 colors.
Hi- or true color would be much nicer.
Sound
& Music
CGTetris makes a
difference between sound
and music. Sounds are
implemented by using wave
files (*.wav), while
music is implemented by using MIDI
files (*.mid) (You can see these files only in
the source code
distribution. In the game distribution they are built into
the game.)
You need a soundcard to hear both, sounds and music.
Furthermore you need an installation of DirectX
(at least version 3). Sounds are played via DirectSound.
The advantages of DirectSound over the win32 API function PlaySound(),
are its lower latency and the ability to mix sounds on the
fly.
CGTetris does not install DirectX, because it is
already installed on many hosts. If you don't have it
right now, you might download it from microsofts home
page.
Multilinguality
In the current version (1.1)
CGTetris is able to "speak" 3 languages.
The default language is the one of the internet: English.
The game is able to
detect which is the current users default language. You
only need a proper language DLL to make the game speak the
right language.
| Language |
Needed Language
DLL |
| English |
none (default) |
| German |
German.lng |
| French
(since version 1.1) |
French.lng
(done by Yann_STEPHAN@hp.com) |
list of currently available
languages
The sources
of the language DLLs are inside the source
distribution. The DLLs are inside the setup procedure.
If you are interested in
creating a language DLL for others than the supported
languages, please let me know.
Building
the game
Since the first publication
of this game, I've got
a lot of messages from people ucancode.neting me, why the sources
won't compile. Well, you need service pack 3 for the
developer studio (VC++
6). This SP contains some bug-fixes the compiler has with
STL and templates.
Changes
in version 1.1
- added french DLL
(thanks to Yann_STEPHAN@hp.com)
- some minor
modifications in handling language DLLs
Download
Now for the interesting
part: the download. If you want to build the game by
yourself (MS-VC++ 6
project), you might select the source
code distribution (a ZIP file). Otherwise you
can download the game's
setup procedure. For all you cautious net surfers: The game
is checked against bugs and viruses as good as one can
check such things. The setup routine does not modify your
system directories. An uninstall procedure will be
installed, too. The installation routine was built with
the publicly available setup toolkit GkSetup 1.60 (it took
me just 5 minutes to build it!)
CGTetris is free
software. You can redistribute it as long as it is not
sold for profit without the authors written consent. The
software does not include any warranty. Any damage (of
what kind ever) resulting from the use of this software,
rests entirely to the user.
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