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archl	2011-08-31 , 00:23
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Hi, can I request someone review/work on the game alienblaster

http://maemo.org/packages/view/alienblaster/

This game is good, comparable to tyrian(opentyrian).

However, on N900 it works very slow and without audio. also the control key using Arrow was not comfortable.

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szopin	2011-08-31 , 10:21
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Compiles without problems and runs with sound. Enter doesn't seem to work, so it will require some work. No idea if it will run faster though.

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vi_	2011-08-31 , 11:00
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Originally Posted by archl

Hi, can I request someone review/work on the game alienblaster

http://maemo.org/packages/view/alienblaster/

This game is good, comparable to tyrian(opentyrian).

However, on N900 it works very slow and without audio. also the control key using Arrow was not comfortable.

Believe it or not, that is how alien blaster is supposed to be.

Slow and ****.

Now someone port 'virus killer' and 'penguin command'.

I have half done virus killer, just need to re-map some keys then go around fixing all the ******ed 'hard coded' screen resolution issues. (it looks for a minimum of 800x600, even after getting it to 'accept' 800x480, things go 'off screen'.)

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szopin	2011-09-05 , 21:41
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Here is port of Alien Blaster with sound. No idea if it is any faster than the one from repos (it is quite slow) but at least sound works.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BUOFOYDG
For optimizations someone with greater knowledge of programming should step in, but as vi_ noted, this might be unnecessary as better games of this kind are around.

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ivgalvez	2011-09-06 , 06:16
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Originally Posted by szopin

Here is port of Alien Blaster with sound. No idea if it is any faster than the one from repos (it is quite slow) but at least sound works.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BUOFOYDG
For optimizations someone with greater knowledge of programming should step in, but as vi_ noted, this might be unnecessary as better games of this kind are around.

You can push the package into Extras Devel without any special permission.