Free western software for linux

WESTBANG is a western FPS style game for Linux.

Comics

Files: DATA/COMIX/*.CMX

Comics are simple animations with given images made by a script file.
Comics are used for intro and outro animation and for interlevel shots.
There are these reserved comics:

intro.cmx played after the start of the program
gameover.cmx played, when a player loose his last life
goodbye.cmx played after the quit

You can modify these files as you wish, but you have to keep these names,
because they are called directly from the program. Other comics, their
names or number, is random.

Any of the *.cmx file can contain these commands:

delay < ticks >

Specifies the time the computer will wait before he does the next
command.

image < index > < name >

Image loads the specified bitmap and gives it an index number. In the
< name > can be just the name of the bitmap (the *.bmp file) or the path
and the name. The path starts in ../WESTBANG/DATA/COMIX, so all your
bitmaps and dirs have to be in the COMIX directory.

Note: The color 255,0,255 is transparent.

destroy < index >

Removes the image from the memory. Dont forget to destroy images,
or you can glut the memory.

virtual < v_index > < index > < pos_X > < pos_Y > < width > < height >

Virtual is the quad shaped object taken out of the image you can work
with by the commands of the comics. You can define more than one virtual
in one image.
< v_index > is the index given to the new virtual.
< index > is the index of the source bitmap.
< pox_X > < pos_Y > are the coords of the upper left corner of the virtual
in the image.
< width > < height > set the size of the virtual.

anime < v_inde x> < frames > < delay >

Makes the specified virtual the animated one. < Frames > is the number of
the frames and < delay > sets the pause between the two frames (speed of
animation).
Animated virtuals are made of bitmaps with all the frames placed in the
row. So the height of the bitmap is the same as the frames height and
width equals to times width of the frame.

anime_type < v_index > < type >

Sets the type of the animation of the specified virtual.
1: from first to last (1->2->3->...)
2: zig zag (1->2->3->2->1->...)
3: random

Example: These three commands make a short animated virtual.
virtual 3 1 0 0 10 10 //defines the first frame (size 10x10)
//taken from the image 1 (size 40x10)
anime 3 4 18 //makes 4-frames animation
anime_type 3 1 //sets the type of the animation to normal

setxy < v_index > < x > < y >

Puts the specified virtual on the given coords.

vis_on < v_index >

Shows the specified virtual. New created virtuals are hiden. You have to
use vis_on, if you want to see them on the screen.

vis_off < v_index >

Hides the specified virtual.

move < v_index > < tx > < ty > < sx > < sy > < tempo >

Sets the virtual as "the moving" one. Moving virtual goes automaticaly
from actual coords to target coords < tx >,< ty >. The speed of the motion
can be controled by the length of the single step (< sx >: step along the
x-axis, < sy >: step along the y-axis in pixels), or by the < tempo > - the
delay between the two steps.

resize < v_index> < sw> < sh> < speed_x> < speed_y>

Sets the virtual as "the resizing" one. < Sw> and < sh> are starting
height and witdth. Resizing can go by the very small steps, thats why
you have to set sw=100000 and sh=100000 if you want the starting size
of the virtual to be 100% x 100%.

sound < index> < name>

This is the same as the image command for the bitmaps.

play_sound < index> < volume> < panning>

Plays the sound once.

repeat_sound < index> < volume> < panning>

Repeats the sound, until you stop it by the command:

stop_sound < index>

destroy_sound < index>

Removes the sound from the memory.

pause

Waits for input. The script wont continue, until the user presses any key.

include < file_name>

Plays the < file_name> comics file. You can make the hierarchy in the files by this command. Its usefull for the good control of the long comics to create one "main" cmx file, that calls the single scenes as you can see in the "intro.cmx".

If you want to learn more, how to create the script look in our *.cmx files. Note: Max number of images is 50. Max number of virtuals is 50. Max number of samples is 20.

Open Gaming System project is a platform for developing open gaming software.

It defines an API and provides a free software implementation of this interface. It is designed to be portable, reusable, and flexible enough for use in any game world or campaign setting including medieval, modern, futuristic, gothic, eastern, and western, as well as the traditional fantasy setting.

This distribution contains a software development kit (SDK) for development with C, C++, and Java.

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This software range from massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG), complete campaign management systems, or character generation tools.

Kalendae project is a tool to convert dates between the modern western calendar (entered using a localized GUI) and the ancient Roman one expressed in Latin.

Leap years are taken into account starting from 10 B.C.

abc2mtex is a package designed to notate tunes stored in an ascii format (henceforth abc notation). It was designed primarily for folk and traditional tunes of Western European origin (such as Irish, English and Scottish) which can be written on one stave in standard classical notation. However, it can be used for multiple staves and should be extendible to many other types of music. The program can be used as a fast preprocessor for MusicTeX or MusiXTeX.
Enhancements:
- Completely general tuplets are now available. The syntax is backwards
- compatible with previous versions.
- The possible modes and scales that can be specified in the K: field has now
- been augmented by major, minor, lydian, ionian, aeolian, phrygian, locrian.
- In addition global accidentals can be specifed in the K: field.
- Unisons (or double stopping) can be specified with the chord notation,
- e.g. [DD].
- The automatic beaming feature (previously available with the -c option)
- has been restored, although it is now switched on with a user switch
- rather than a command line option.
- Guitar chords can be placed above the staff rather than below with a user
- switch.
- Changes in meter in the middle of a bar now show up in the output.
- It is now legal to use a broken symbol > after a close slur ).

MyBook World Edition Packages project collection provides pre-compiled packages for hacking Western Digital MyBook World Edition, to improve performance and add new features.

At least intermediate Linux experience is required for playing with MyBook. Please, if you do not meet this requirement, ask someone experienced to help you. Otherwise there is a risk that you will brick your MyBook!

The Manhattan Virtual Classroom is a stable, fast and effective course management system that runs on Linux and other Unix-like systems.
Its written entirely in the C programming language (fast! - light hardware requirements) and is 100% database-free (no MySQL administration, no tuning issues- simple!) Manhattan supports thousands of users at its Western New England College home, and at other colleges and schools around the world.
Its one of the best-kept secrets of the online learning world - a course management system "for the rest of us".
Main features:
- Provide your students with handouts, notices, lecture materials, interactive self-tests, and web sites to visit.
- Assign homework for your students to complete, receive the work they do in response to those assignments, and provide feedback.
- Issue multiple-choice, True/False, and short answer exams.
- Issue more involved exams where the students are expected to do their work offline, and submit their responses in the form of a word processing, spreadsheet, or other type of file(s).
- Exchange private messages with your students.
- Host discussions with the entire class, or with teams of students.
- Keep students apprised of their grades.
- Issue surveys to your students and collect the results.
- Engage in live online "chats" with your students.
- Track which students are using the system and when.

The cnet network simulator (v2.0.10) enables experimentation with various data-link layer, network layer, routing and transport layer networking protocols in networks consisting of any combination of point-to-point links and IEEE 802.3 Ethernet segments. cnet has been specifically developed for, and is used in, undergraduate computer networking courses taken by thousands of students worldwide since 1991. At The University of Western Australia, cnet is used primarily in Chris McDonalds undergraduate unit Computer Networks (IT312).

cnet either displays the entire network under Tcl/Tk or runs rather less visually on an ASCII terminal. Under Tcl/Tk, cnet provides a graphical representation of the network under execution and permits a number of attributes of the network to be modified while the simulation is running. Nodes may be selected with the mouse to reveal a sub-window displaying the output and protocol statistics of that node. Some of the nodes attributes, such as message generation rates and sizes, may be modified while the network is running by selecting choice buttons. Similarly, the default attributes of all nodes in the network may be simultaneously modified by selecting and changing global attributes. From another menu, each node may be forced to reboot, (impolitely) crash, (politely) shutdown and reboot, pause and (hardware) fail, you can do many things.

You should note the following requirements and restrictions for various systems:

If using a Linux(ELF) system, the freely-available libelf package is required. Most Linux(ELF) systems (with at least version 2.0 kernels) now provide a copy of libelf, but if yours doesnt it greatly simplifies things if you can install libelf globally on your system. A full copy of libelf is included in the cnet distribution.
If using SunOS you should be using Release 4.1.2 or beyond. If still using Release 4.1.1 you must obtain and install Sun-Patch-ID#100257-03 (4-Oct-91) - whoa! welcome to the 21st century.
If using an SGI-IRIX machine, you must be using Release 5 or 6 (Release 4 is not supported).
Older Linux systems with a.out formats are no longer supported.
cnet has been tested with most Tcl/Tk versions, (Tcl7.X+Tk3.X), (Tcl7.X+Tk4.X), (Tcl8.0+Tk8.0), and. (Tcl8.3+Tk8.3).

Libuninum is a library for converting Unicode strings to numbers. Standard functions like strtoul and strtod do this for numbers written in the usual Western number system using the Indo-Arabic numerals, but they do not handle other number systems.
The main functions take as input a UTF-32 Unicode string and compute the corresponding unsigned integer. For example, they will convert the Chinese string ??????????? to the integer 594,321 and the Devanagari string ????? to the integer 78,492. Internal computation is done using arbitrary precision arithmetic, so there is no limit on the size of the integer that can be converted.
The value of the string is returned in one of two forms. One option is a string of ASCII characters containing the decimal representation of the integer using the Indo-Arabic digits. This option has the virtue of avoiding any possibility of overflow or truncation. The other option is to obtain the value as an unsigned long integer.
If you are going to do internal calculations, this is probably the most convenient option, but some numbers (in fact, infinitely many) will not fit into an unsigned long integer. The library guarantees that no overflow or truncation will occur; if the number will not fit, it sets an error flag and returns 0.
Enhancements:
- This version adds support for the more exotic forms of Roman numerals.
- Roman numeral compatibility characters are now accepted.