SpaceWar was written as a project to simultaneously gain a working
knowledge of C++ and of Win32 programming. As one might imagine, some
of the source can and will be pretty messy. There are also very few
comments - they're just not my style. However, my code is structured
well, so if you have any idea of what you're doing, you'll be able
to give it a quick look through and start tweaking things in a couple
of minutes. For those of you who are complete newbies, I would suggest
downloading the simplified version that demonstrates only basic galactic
combat functionality. This code was originally intended to be used
in a game programming at the end of the year in my C++ class, but
unfortunately we ran out of time.
These sources were composed and compiled in Microsoft Visual C++
6.0, which is, quite simply, the best windows C++ compiler out there.
I have made absolutely no effort to make it portable or allow it to
compile under other programs. It's just not something I'm interested
in doing. That being said, if you are able to alter the project files
so that they will compile under, say Borland, please email me a zip
of the code and I'll post it on my website so that others of the misguided
can benefit from your work. Indeed, if you take this source and do
anything interesting with it, I'd love to see it or at least hear
about it from you.
NOTE: The main program, space.exe, accepts a command line which is
sent by the startup program start.exe. That's the proggy you're going
to want to run when you play. If you experience any errors, you've
got the source. Fix them yourself.
