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muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6726 Location: hobart

http://aykut-ozdemir.blogspot.com/

I've uploaded a .pet here(1070kbytes) hangman-1.0.pet

ttuuxxx · Last edited by ttuuxxx on Thu 25 Sep 2008, 10:42; edited 1 time in total

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6726 Location: hobart

I did compress most things as much as possible but, now that you mention it, I might be able to find a few things to get it down by 70k.

By the way ttuuxxx, when you mention getting 10 in a row, if you check the images that come with each word, I've got a feeling the game is aimed at a particular age group...nudge nudge.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 25 Sep 2008, 10:45 Post subject:

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6726 Location: hobart

The maximum I can reduce it by is 20kbytes! So I'll just leave it as it is. It must have been brewskies all round yesterday as I was ditto!

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 2590

I've had a look at the program. the binary delivered in the sources is staically linked which accounts for most of the size. I didn't have good luck at getting the sources to compile, but perhaps someone else would have netter luck. That should shave about 900KB off the size...
Meanwhile I kept looking for hangman and found an SDL version which may be more universal.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6726 Location: hobart

@Amigo,

most of the overhead is in the included graphics. In the .pet I uploaded the binary uses shared libraries, and only weighs in at 48kbytes. After I've stripped & upx'ed it's only 16k.

Are you going to upload the SDL version?

Edit: I just thought that maybe the binary is showing as static as it's been compressed with upx

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6726 Location: hobart

http://mwolson.org/projects/HangIt.html

What about an ncurses version, for those not suffering CLI-phobia?

Just extract to /, and run by entering hangit

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6726 Location: hobart

http://tickletux.sourceforge.net/

This one is tcl-based. To reduce the size, I've removed the newer .gif icons, and kept the smaller originals, plus made it into a makeself self-extracting gzipped program.

Just extract to / & run by entering hangman

N.B. If you're using pup4, then you would need to install the pup3 tcl & tk .pets from the puppy ibiblio repository.

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 2590

Sorry, Muggins -I think I got confused about which program I was talking about. Thanks for finding the others you posted about.
Here's a link to the one I found, which seems to be pretty nice. Yopu have to provide some sort of word list for it. I just used one of the lists from the aspell dictionary.

http://freshmeat.net/redir/hangman_sg/48311/url_tgz/hangman-0.9.2.tar.gz

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6726 Location: hobart

@Amigo,

I forgot about the ShiftyGames hangman game. I somehow thought I did a .pet of it, but a forum search finds nada...I must have got sidetracked by something else.

Anyway, I've now uploaded it in this thread.