ref: a88d1a459c32efdff253364434fe3d5f91a90852
parent: 0f323c585f38935a7bce3464078826e5a545fb22
author: Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com>
date: Mon Jan 24 10:45:37 EST 2005
Updates for OS X port (including updating copyright statements). [originally from svn r5201]
--- a/LICENCE
+++ b/LICENCE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This software is copyright (c) 2004 Simon Tatham.
+This software is copyright (c) 2004-2005 Simon Tatham.
Portions copyright Richard Boulton.
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -14,7 +14,12 @@
tweaks and setting of TOOLPATH, it should work for both compiling
on Windows and cross-compiling on Unix.
-Each of these Makefiles builds a program called `nullgame' in
+ - `Makefile.osx' should work under Mac OS X, provided the Xcode
+ tools are installed. It builds a single monolithic OS X
+ application capable of running any of the puzzles, or even more
+ than one of them at a time.
+
+Many of these Makefiles build a program called `nullgame' in
addition to the actual game binaries. This program doesn't do
anything; it's just a template for people to start from when adding
a new game to the collection, and it's compiled every time to ensure
@@ -29,8 +34,10 @@
change the makefiles as part of a patch, you should change Recipe
and/or mkfiles.pl.
-The manual, provided in Windows Help and text formats, is generated
-from a Halibut source file (puzzles.but), which is the preferred form
-for modification. To generate the manual in other formats, rebuild it,
+The manual is provided in Windows Help format for the Windows build;
+in text format for anyone who needs it; and in HTML for the Mac OS X
+application and for the web site. It is generated from a Halibut
+source file (puzzles.but), which is the preferred form for
+modification. To generate the manual in other formats, rebuild it,
or learn about Halibut, visit the Halibut website at
<http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/>.
--- a/puzzles.but
+++ b/puzzles.but
@@ -33,16 +33,17 @@
I wrote this collection because I thought there should be more small
desktop toys available: little games you can pop up in a window and
play for two or three minutes while you take a break from whatever
-else you were doing. And I was also annoyed that every time I found a
-good game on (say) \i{Unix}, it wasn't available the next time I was
-sitting at a \i{Windows} machine, or vice versa; so I arranged that
-everything in my personal puzzle collection will happily run on both.
-When I find (or perhaps invent) further puzzle games that I like,
-they'll be added to this collection and will immediately be available
-on both platforms. And if anyone feels like writing any other front
-ends - Mac OS, PocketPC, or whatever it might be - then all the games
-in this framework will immediately become available on another
-platform as well.
+else you were doing. And I was also annoyed that every time I found
+a good game on (say) \i{Unix}, it wasn't available the next time I
+was sitting at a \i{Windows} machine, or vice versa; so I arranged
+that everything in my personal puzzle collection will happily run on
+both, and have more recently done a port to Mac OS X as well. When I
+find (or perhaps invent) further puzzle games that I like, they'll
+be added to this collection and will immediately be available on
+both platforms. And if anyone feels like writing any other front
+ends - PocketPC, Mac OS pre-10, or whatever it might be - then all
+the games in this framework will immediately become available on
+another platform as well.
The actual games in this collection were mostly not my invention; I
saw them elsewhere, and rewrote them in a form that was more
@@ -134,6 +135,8 @@
\H{common-cmdline} Specifying game parameters on the \i{command line}
+(This section does not apply to the Mac OS X version.)
+
The games in this collection deliberately do not ever save
information on to the computer they run on: they have no high score
tables and no saved preferences. (This is because I expect at least
@@ -527,7 +530,7 @@
\A{licence} \I{MIT licence}\ii{Licence}
-This software is \i{copyright} 2004 Simon Tatham.
+This software is \i{copyright} 2004-2005 Simon Tatham.
Portions copyright Richard Boulton.