Thursday, August 16, 2018

NEW: games/spacetrader

Hi ports --

Attached is a new port, games/spacetrader. Space Trader is an
interstellar trading strategy game.

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pkg/DESCR:
Space Trader centers on buying and selling commodities in various star
systems around the galaxy. The player has one of several types of
spacecraft, and interacts with other traders, pirates, and police. The
goal is to earn enough money to retire to your own moon.

This package is a port of the original Palm OS game to C#.
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A long time ago I owned a Palm IIIc and this was by far the best game I
had on it. I found out yesterday that there was a port made of the game
to C#, which mono can build just fine. There are small issues I noticed
where the encounter window cuts off part of the buttons (but they are
still readable, so the game is still playable) and the keyboard
shortcuts might not work on every WM (they work in cwm but don't in
fluxbox, for example). But all those shortcuts have menu options, so
nothing is lost. But if anyone could point me to whether or not this is
a mono thing or something specific to the game, I'd appreciate it so it
could get fixed someday.

This game is just as addicting as when I last played it 15 years ago. I
spent way more hours than I'd care to admit playing it yesterday.

OK?

~Brian

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