FreeVikings 0.5 review
DownloadFreeVikings game reimplements the DOS game Lost Vikings. One evening I was playing with toys like Emacs (my favourite text editor) a
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FreeVikings game reimplements the DOS game Lost Vikings.
One evening I was playing with toys like Emacs (my favourite text editor) and Ruby (my favourite high-level programming language) and I dreamed about playing one very nice game, Lost Vikings, on Linux. Without DOS emulator.
If only I had the source code... I would change it to run on my favourite operating system. But it's a commercial game and it's manufacturers don't want to make it free, although it's rather old (1993). "Let you make it from scratch." I said to myself and started writing my first game in Ruby.
Requirements:
To get freeVikings running you have to have installed Ruby, SDL library and it's extensions SDL_image, SDL_gfx and SDL_TTF. For Ruby you also need some extensions. RUDL (version equal or higher then 0.7), REXML, Log4r, and script. You can find them all in Ruby application archive - RAA. Actually you can have received some of them with your Ruby distribution (very generous is the Ruby one-click installer for Windows).
What's New in This Release:
Support for tiled maps and two new levels.
FreeVikings 0.5 keywords