Pong Ultra 1.1.1          
For Windows 95/98 and Dos         
(A Stars Dev Company Production)  

Copyright (c) Martin Zolnieryk aka Hard Rock 2002 - 2003  All rights reserved

Pong Ultra Official Website : http://pongu.sf.net
Stars Dev Company Website:    http://starsdev.cjb.net

Source Code 1.1
Please Read The Open Source License Included

Table of Contents
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1.0 - About the source
   1.1 - Requirments
   1.2 - Tested Compilers
2.0 - List Of Pong Game Used Files
3.0 - List of Pong Map Used Files
4.0 - Compiling on other platforms
5.0 - Contact
6.0 - Ending
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1.0 About the Source
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Yes, I'm aware that the source is a mess, I can't even tell you which headers I used for which projects, since I just dumped everything in one directory hit enter, and let the compiler do the rest.

This is pretty much my first shot at a C program, after coding in qbasic for a long time, so most of the code is crap, even though it got significantly better as time went on, (Check out gmenu.c for probably the only half decent code written for the game).

Anyways don't try to emulate my code style, it sucks,and if you want to borrow some routines, just be sure to include me in the credits somewhere, or whoever wrote that particular routine(ive commented the ones i did not write) and email me so that I can see what was made with the code. I think that's it, yeah its a real mess.
-Hard Rock

1.1 Requirements
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Pong Ultra Requires the following libaries:

Allegro 4.0 or later for a whole lot of stuff, http://alleg.sf.net

Dumb  0.9.2 or laterfor music, http://dumb.sf.net

JpgAlleg 2.01 for Loading .jpg's, http://allegro.cc (search for it on the depot)

Lexgui 0.9.1 for PongMap Editors gui, source included. http://stienke.net/allegro/

1.2 Tested Compilers
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Pong Ultra was tested on Dev-C++ 4.0 with a slightly updated version of Mingw. It should compile for newer version without any difficulty.

Under DOS it was compiled for DJGPP.

MSVC has not been tested, as i could not get dumb to properly compile. However it should to compile without much difficulty if you can get the libraries to work.

This game has not been tested under linux, however the game does not use any platform specific libraries(all support linux), so it should work fine.

2.0 List Of Pong Game Used Files
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14 source files:
(headers are not listed)
All are needed to be linked together to create Pongu.exe
Balls.c
Encrypt.c
Gif.c
Gmenu.c
Input.c
Menu.c
Music.c
Npk.c
Paddles.c
Pgame.c
Pgmap.c
Pmain.c
Ppack.c
Sprite.c
Libraries to link with(in given order):
libjpgal.a, libaldmb.a, libdumb.a,liballeg.a

3.0 List of Pong Map Used Files
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8 Source Files:
(Headers are not included in list)
Gif.c
Lexgui.c
Map.c
Mouse.c
Pack.c
Pgui.c
Pmap.c
Sprite.c
Libraries to link with(in given order):
libjpgal.a, liballeg.a

4.0 Compiling on other platforms
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PongUltra should be able to compile for any platform Allegro supports,
if you are willing to donate some time to test compiling allegro on the platform of your choice, please do and tell us all(or better yet, send us the fixed version) the code we need to change to compile it on said platform. Platform specific makefiles are also appreciated.

5.0 Contact
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For Pong Ultra Related stuff, it is reccomended you post them at http://pongu.sf.net However you may also try an email listed below or the stars dev website.

The Stars Dev Team Members are:

Martin Zolnieryk aka Hard Rock
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Creator of The Stars Dev Company and the lead Programmer.
Also the hardest working of the bunch.
You can contact me at: Hard_Rock_2@yahoo.com
or at the Stars Website

Cristian Molnar aka Whirlpool
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Artist for the Stars Dev Company.
You can contact him at:	Whirl_pool_13@yahoo.com
or at the Stars Website

Scott aka Zcot
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Occasionly lends a hand in his spare time, 
as a programmer. 
You can contact him at: dorkmanzcot@hotmail.com
or at the stars website

The Stars Website:
http://starsdev.cjb.net


Mirrors:
http://stars.hybd.net
http://flatface.net/~hardrock/

6.0 Ending
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Yep it's the end of the (source)readme!
Please send all questions and comments to: hard_rock_2@yahoo.com
The Official Pong Ultra Website:
http://pongu.sf.net

The Stars Dev Website can be found at:
http://starsdev.cjb.net

Thank you.
Martin aka. Hard Rock
