X-Git-Url: https://jasonwoof.com/gitweb/?p=vor.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=d4580cb39ff200a2f774898b415e83123c27ce06;hp=7c6d86eb8ab958c233a57a66fba51a70d4d3fbd7;hb=ffdc204143f580b2e477683224389bffa00b9304;hpb=f8b249157652f109467064877561955910f98fc1

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@@ -1,12 +1,24 @@
-Variations on Rockdodger 0.3
+Variations on Rockdodger 0.5.7
 
 VoR is a quick action game where you drive a space ship and try to avoid
 crashing into rocks. Current information about vor can be found on the
-homepage: http://herkamire.com/jason/vor
+homepage: https://sametwice.com/vor
+
+Here are the keys:
+
+ Space: Start playing
+     1: Switch to easy mode and start playing
+     2: Switch to normal mode (default) and start playing
+Arrows: Steer (use short taps, and remember to slow down)
+   Esc: Quit
+     F: Toggle full-screen mode
+     P: Pause/unpause
+     3: Save a screenshot
 
 See INSTALL for instructions on building, running and installing.
 
-VoR is released under the GNU GPL -- see file COPYING for details.
+VoR is released under the GNU GPL -- see file COPYING for details. The audio is
+public domain.
 
 Jason Woofenden and Josh Grams like Rock Dodgers
 (http://spacerocks.sourceforge.net/) very much: both playing it and hacking on
@@ -14,22 +26,57 @@ it. VoR is the result. It is currently based on the rockdodger 0.4.2 codebase,
 with quite a few modifications, both user-visible changes and internal
 technical improvements.
 
-Available for download from http://qualdan.com/vor/, or you can check out the
-latest SVN copy from http://josh.qualdan.com:3/svn/vor/trunk/ (Warning: Not
-Always On).
+Available for download from https://sametwice.com/vor
 
 Note: This is a fairly hard game, intended to be a quickie game for when you
 want to kill a few spare minutes. For reference, my best time [Josh Grams] is
 about 2 minutes in version 0.3. I'm not generally very good at video games, but
-I have been playing this one for quite a while now. However, you can make it
-substantially easier by slowing the game down. New in version 0.4, we have a
-command-line option --game-speed=N%.  New players may like to try it at 0.75 or
-even 0.66.
+I have been playing this one for quite a while now.
 
 Changes from Rock Dodgers
 
 User-Visible Changes:
 
+0.5.6:
+  * Some rocks disappear when hit by your exploding ship sparks
+
+0.5.4:
+  * new sound effect and music
+  * F key toggles full-screen mode
+  * 3 key saves a screenshot
+
+0.5.3:
+  * another attempt at fixing the x86 crashes.
+  * made valgrind happy.
+
+0.5.2:
+  * another attempt at fixing the x86 crashes.
+
+0.5.1:
+  * another attempt at fixing the x86 crashes.
+
+0.5:
+  * lots of bug fixes
+  * tweaks to engine and explosion graphics and new font
+
+0.4:
+  * Rocks now bounce off each other, and are pushed by particles.
+  * Now with two difficulties: normal and easy.
+  * Better new ship placement after you die.
+
+0.3:
+  * Scrolls to the right so you can zoom ahead.
+  * Fully random rock generation; rocks no longer wrap vertically.
+  * Rocks' relative speeds are now uniform in all directions (i.e. much more
+    up/down speed variation).  Noticeably hard...err...more "interesting".
+  * Command-line option --game-speed.
+
+0.2:
+  * New graphics, generated by POV-Ray. Yeah, okay, the ship is really cheesy.
+    At least the rocks are cool.
+  * Real collision detection; no more "ship is 1 pixel bigger all around
+    than it looks."
+
 0.1:
   * Moves like a real spacecraft; no more friction!
   * No more silly shields or lasers; just pure rockdodgin' fun!
@@ -37,23 +84,11 @@ User-Visible Changes:
   * Proper time display for score, not just raw milliseconds (bleh).
   * Ship explodes, blowing rocks away, rather than automagically vanishing
     them.
-0.2:
-  * New graphics, generated by POV-Ray. Yeah, okay, the ship is really cheezy.
-    At least the rocks are cool.
-  * Real collision detection; no more "ship is 1 pixel bigger all around
-    than it looks."
-0.3:
-  * Scrolls to the right so you can zoom ahead.
-  * Fully random rock generation; rocks no longer wrap vertically.
-  * Rocks' relative speeds are now uniform in all directions (i.e. much more
-    up/down speed variation).  Noticeably hard...err...more "interesting".
-0.4:
-  * Command-line option --game-speed.
 
 Internal Technical Changes:
 
-  * Upgraded to SFont 2.03, which has way less cruft, but no text input
-    routine.
+  * Build system now uses autoconf (as of 0.5.5)
+  * Replaced SFont with Jason's font.c
   * Started factoring a lot of stuff out of main into their own .c files.
   * Removed a bunch of unused code.
   * Function definitions: name at beginning of line (line following the return