CAVEZ of PHEAR

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	Source of Fun posted by Anonymous @ 88.111.99.159 on Mar 29 2007 8:26 AM
I play this everyday at school, it's great. ^_^
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	Boulder Dash like? posted by Anonymous @ 85.14.104.225 on Mar 27 2007 11:14 AM
No running down under falling rock == no boulder dash like. Amen. Sorry. The idea is brilliant (terminal), but until this behavior changes - this game is unusable for me. I've grown up on Boulder Dash and played many games that couldn't reproduce this behaviour - they all sucked. I know it is no easy, but if you could get it working. That would be *this*.
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	Nice posted by Katowon @ 124.120.131.61 on Feb 25 2007 5:59 AM
great little game to kill time. Has a nice editor as well so you can make levels to pass on to friends. Nice work, good fun.
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	Cool posted by newlearner @ 210.200.105.226 on Feb 23 2007 3:24 AM
It's just cool.
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	Nice little gem... posted by Anonymous @ 62.78.152.74 on Feb 22 2007 12:01 PM
I just downloaded, built and tested this. I think it's "just right", even the code and Makefiles look good! :-) Btw. Another nice text based game is "hatman" a console pacman. It can work in many console sizes and supports even (smooth) scrolling.
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	Nice little gem... posted by Anonymous @ 62.78.152.74 on Feb 22 2007 11:58 AM
I just downloaded, built and tested this. I think it's "just right", even the code and Makefiles look good! :-)
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	Cool posted by mbabuskov @ 212.200.136.73 on Feb 22 2007 2:30 AM
I found one difference to the original game. IIRC, you could stand under the boulder, start running down and then step aside and it wouldn't kill you.
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	Good Game Not as Strick as RocksnDiamond posted by Nz17 @ 65.114.248.71 on Nov 8 2003 12:27 AM
Good game. I always appreciate games written for the terminal. When you're compiling programs you need something to pass the time, and when you do not have a dedicated 3D accelerator they are quite pleasant as well. CAVES of PHEAR is a pretty good Boulderdash-alike. Never having played Boulderdash, I cannot say how closely this game follows it; but if Boulderdash plays as Rocks'n'Diamonds does, then I can say CoP has a much more forgiving engine, as simply walking alongside boulders does not cause them to move like in RnD. Only making a space beneath will moves the boulders, and they fall into the holes as they should. It should be mentioned that this game has a great opening animation, and I was not expecting to see such a thing. My compliments. A nice extra that some console games lack is the presense of color, but CoP does not dissapoint. The colors are used to nice effect, making it easy to identify the important game elements, as they are brighter than the less important ones. The player and diamonds are bright whites and yellows, the boulders are gray, the dirt is rudy and the barriers are cyan. Perhaps it is because I have played a similiar game in the past, but the controls and graphics seemed quite intuitive to me. All-in-all, a great little game with a large number of levels and add-ons. My only complaint stems from the fact that boulders are not more sensitive to the player and environment, such as to roll over an edge, making avoiding them much too easy.
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	service posted by musk @ 62.87.209.87 on Nov 2 2003 4:31 AM
wanted to add this game as a service on port 500 on my comp. to allow some of my friends to play. telnet connets, but i don't see the phear start screen, don't see anything :| is it possible to play ncurses games in such way ?
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Re: service posted by tomrflo @ 217.8.137.102 on Nov 2 2003 4:47 AM   Yes, it's fully possible to play this over telnet, ssh etc. I've done so myself. Make sure your terminal is 80x25 in size, or larger. Most terminals run as 80x24 by default, so make it one line longer and you should be good to go.   [Reply]   Re: service posted by musk @ 62.87.219.143 on Nov 2 2003 7:09 AM   '500 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd phear' i`ve added this line to inetd.conf. i`ve also added /root/phear-0.01-beta to $PATH, respawned inetd. port 500 is open. and here i go : [[root@localhost]] phear-0.01-beta$ telnet 127.0.0.1 500 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. nothing happens here :| Connection closed by foreign host. help please   [Reply]   Re: service posted by Anonymous @ 217.118.45.39 on Nov 2 2003 7:37 AM   Hi! Try this... Add a user (adduser phear) and install cavez of phear in "/home/phear/". Now, change the shell of the user phear by typing "chsh -s /home/phear/phear phear". You can also use "usermod -s /home/phear/phear phear", or edit /etc/passwd manually (be carefull, and be sure to know what you are doing!). Next, be sure that you have the telnet daemon added in your inetd.conf, something like this should do it: # Telnet server (unmodified line from a standard installation) telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd Remember to killall -HUP inetd if you make any changes to inetd.conf. Then do a "telnet localhost" and log in as phear. The game should now start. It should also work perfectly over ssh if you set the game as the shell for the user like I explained on the third line in this reply. I have not tried the game using a Win32 telnet client, but I have successfully played the game from windows over ssh using putty, a free telnet/ssh client for win32. See http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html for more information about putty. Good luck! PS: Don't forget to resize your terminal/telnet/ssh-client to at least 80x25 ! :)   [Reply]