"Ja nytpäs kaikki pelaamaan kettupeliä, kettupeliä..."
("And now everybody, let's play the fox game, the fox game...")

- Robin Hood (Spede Pasanen) in the movie Noin Seitsemän Veljestä

Introduction - What the heck is Yiff?

Yiff! is a highly addictive puzzle game, written by M. Brent (Tursi) (see also the home page). Well, at least I would described it as "highly addictive" - it got me hooked, so I decided to port it to my Operating System of Choice, Linux.

The idea of the game is to place foxes on a grid. When you put enough foxes on same square, all of those foxes turn to your color and spread to the adjacent squares. The goal is to turn all of the foxes on the board to your color.

Oh, what does the name mean? Well, that's what happens if you put too many foxes in the same room. =)

Enough crud. Can I get the sources?

Yep. It's under GPL now. Have fun. And hey, if you have improvement suggestions, go ahead and tell me.

Required libraries

You will need to get the following libraries:

• Glibc 2.1... I will not provide libc5 or glibc2 software anymore. Sorry.
• ncurses 3.4. Sorry. =) I didn't wanted to use xwinallegro keyboard handling for the -greet, besides, xwinallegro opened an useless window...
• XwinAllegro 3.0-12.
• Standard X11 stuff.

Download

• 1.0 / Revision 0.3 for Linux and X11 [LSM]
  • metalab.unc.edu
• 1.0 for DOS / Windows

Revision history / Changes

0.0

Initial revision

0.1

This was supposed to be the first public revision. Added path search functions, fixed some trivial bugs, added new logo and useless trivia to the about page. =)

0.2

Fixed some trivial \n losses that made the output look kind of funny. Moral: Never do RCS ci at the middle of the night... =)

0.3

Whee, some serious improvements this time...

• Creeping Microsoftitis has now shaken the code a bit - it's still slow, but hey, at least it looks cool. =) It now no longer fades the screen, it uses blitty-blitty-blitty cool special effects to change the screen to something more appropriate. (I will add some more screen fade hacks to it later. Something... more random. =)
• It also uses getopt to read the arguments. (Overkill, but what the heck. =) Well, -greet is crashy at the moment. (Probably due to ncurses lib from Potato - Even the trivial ncurses test programs segfaulted).
• It's now under GPL. Share and enjoy.

See also the file ChangeLog.txt in the package.

How doth it work now? Bugs?

Yes, it works. It really works. Took only a moments with the source to compile it and make it to run. It's playable. Don't you love xwinallegro?

Some of the bugs I've found:

• Fades, blits and color cycles are WAYYYYY SLOW compared to the original. This is probably either a bug in XwinAllegro - it's reported to be not as fast as the DOS version - or that Allegro 3.x needs some extra kluging (the original DOS version used Allegro 2.x). Or that XWinAllegro considers it extermely rude to run 8bpp programs in 16bpp mode. =) Or, just some things in the code. Who knows... I must check.
• No MIDI music. Don't know if it has anything to do with my setup, or the lack of such things in XwinAllegro...
• There is a mixer screwup when quitting, and I can see why. Shall be fixed...

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