In California, truck license plates are 7 characters, all numbers except for one letter in either the second or the sixth position. Whenever that letter is an X, I get nerd snipped into treating it as a multiplication problem and solving it in my head.
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Quadra for Windows
An addictive action puzzle game with single player and multiplayer capabilities (Internet or LAN). This is the fork that maintains a working Windows version.
Releases
This is the game Quadra by Ludus Design compiled for Windows.
There are two versions included:
- quadra.exe - The original game.
- quadra-wild.exe - The original game with my three patches:
- Centiseconds - In sprint mode, the clock will have a resolution of 0.01 seconds.
- Floating next pieces - The next pieces float above your shadow when enabled.
- No pause in multiplayer - You can no longer pause multiplayer games, and servers running this version will not allow their clients to pause the game either.
To install, unzip to a directory of your choosing, and run the Quadra version you wish.
There are two versions included:
- quadra.exe - The original game.
- quadra-wild.exe - The original game with my three patches:
- Centiseconds - In sprint mode, the clock will have a resolution of 0.01 seconds.
- Floating next pieces - The next pieces float above your shadow when enabled.
- No pause in multiplayer - You can no longer pause multiplayer games, and servers running this version will not allow their clients to pause the game either.
To install, unzip to a directory of your choosing, and run the Quadra version you wish.
Commits
Initial WhiteSource configuration file
Updates to get Quadra to compile on Windows.
Added -fullscreen option for SDL platform
Input_SDL::pause is now set to true when Pause key is pressed
Update README.md
Update README.md
Remove a few unused includes.
Work around an Automake bug.
Updated NEWS.md.
Update the version number to 1.3.0.
Update the README.md section on libpng.
Update the web site URL to point to GitHub.
With SDL2, Mac OS X is now a supported platform.
Fix a few problems found by "make distcheck".
Update NEWS.md
Add the project URL to configure.ac.
Add emacs backup files to .gitignore.
Build a Mac OS X bundle.
Implement mouse wheel in demo central directory list box
Add a fallback when creating the renderer.
Update README with new required steps on Unix-Like
Fixed down arrow on listbox
Clean up iterators in quadra.cc a bit.
Split off building Game_params from start_game.
Tighten up the Game constructors.
Use an std::string for Game_params::name.
Do a batch of include cleanups.
Use the AC_CONFIG_HEADERS file directly.
Use the SDL byteswapping functions instead of our own.
Put the header for a source file first (and fix issues).
Split the Attack class into its own file.
Change the extensions from .cpp to .cc.
Reorganize the source code into a single directory.
Make the Zone_panel in Zone_state_text a value.
Iterate over callbacks in a more robust way.
Remove an unused variable.
Remove the Video::setpal method.
Use SDL_Color instead of PALETTEENTRY.
Refactor the main loop out of start_game.
Create the menu Executor on the stack.
Return from start_game in a more normal way.
Use an anonymous namespace to isolate some functions.
Move the Player state classes to their own files.
Remove friend declarations from Palette.
Fix the broken fades.
Enable waiting on vsync.
Clean up Fontdata constructors.
Remove an unused parameter in a Bitmap constructor.
Remove a useless forward declaration in bitmap.h.
Remove unneeded friend declarations in Bitmap.
Removed an unused member variable in Bitmap.
Remplace use of strdup with std::string.
Make the input of Png a const Res&.
Fix a linking issue with dumpwad.
Inline the temporaries for loading sound samples.
Make Res more const-correct.
Make Res non-copyable.
Add a Resmanager::get that returns an std::string.
Avoid including resmanager.h from res.h.
Make all Resmanager methods non-virtual.
Mark Resmanager::get as const.
Use ResName deeper into Resnamaner and Resfile.
Pull up the size() implementation to Res_mem.
Clean up recording.h a bit.
Small bug fix in wadder.
Give wadder.cpp a do-over.
Streamline the Resfile class.
Gather the methods of Resfile in a single file.
Use an indirection for resource names.
Disable a few Windows specific bits.
Disable the clipboard handling on Win32.
Remove the checks for GNU allocation functions.
Use the "main" signature specified by SDL.
Signal handling is not needed on Win32.
Use the Boost filesystem library in a Win32 compatible way.
Remove some unused variables from main.h.
Replace Find_file with the Boost filesystem library.
Minor update to the README.
Add detection of SDL using sdl2-config.
Remove detection of X11 from configure.ac.
Merge reasonable state of an SDL2 port.
Reorder the initializer list of Input.
Use SDL_GetScancodeName instead of our own.
Remove some debug logging.
Remove the input_keys.h header.
Made the text field (mostly) work.
Support enough keyboard to play the game.
Remove the mouse delta variables from Input.
Forgot to free resources in Video_SDL.
Pulled in the SDL sound support from the "future" branch.
Fix some incorrect indenting.
Removed an unused constructor of Dumb_Video_bitmap.
Remove unneded Dumb_Video_bitmap::New static methods.
Simplify away input_dumb.{h,cpp}.
Remove the unused support for "raw" images.
Remove an unused header file.
Remove some unused methods of Video.
Fix the type of Video::newpal.
Remove unused alt_tab global variable.
Remove the unused start_game function from wadder.
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