jacquelinekay / cdogs-sdl

C-Dogs SDL Action/Arcade Game

C-Dogs SDL Port v0.4.4

(based on C-Dogs 1.06)

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1. Introduction

2. Tested Environments

3. Installation

4. Command line options

5. Contact

6. Introduction

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C-Dogs SDL is a classic overhead run-and-gun game, supporting up to two players in co-op and 1v1 modes. Customize your player, choose from up to 11 weapons, and try the dozens of user-created campaigns. Have fun!

For the latest release notes please see https://github.com/cxong/cdogs-sdl/wiki/Release-Notes

For more information about the original C-Dogs read 'original_readme.txt'.

2.Tested Environments

C-Dogs SDL has been ported with a Unix development environment. In theory, C-Dogs SDL could run on any system that is supported by SDL. See the SDL website - http://www.libsdl.org for more about SDL itself.

C-Dogs SDL runs on Linux, *BSD, Windows and Mac OS X.

There are also unofficial ports to GP2X, BeOS/ZETA/Haiku, MorphOS, Nintendo DS, and AmigaOS 4 to name a few.

And of course, should you succeed in running C-Dogs SDL on a different operating system, platform or toaster please contact us! :-)

3. Installation

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Please use the installers for your platform for installing.

To compile C-Dogs SDL you need to have the SDL libraries previously installed, the SDL_mixer libraries also installed if you want better sound (and music), and a compiler (gcc recommended) and the appropriate header files.

See the wiki for getting started instructions.

4. Command line options

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The C-Dogs binary is called "cdogs-sdl". Below are some command line arguments:

Video Options

-fullscreen Try and use a fullscreen video mode.
-scale=n    Scale the window resolution up by a factor of n
              Factors: 2, 3, 4
-screen=WxH Set virtual screen width to W x H
              Modes: 320x200, 320x240, 400x300, 640x480, 800x600
-forcemode  Don't check video mode sanity

Sound Options

-nosound    Disable sound

Control Options

-nojoystick     Disable joystick(s)

Game Options

-savecampaigns  Save builtin campaigns as in the current directory.
-wait           Wait for a key hit before initialising video.
-shakemult=n    Screen shaking multiplier (0 = disable).

-help           Display command line options and version information.

These can be used in any order/combination:

$ cdogs-sdl -fullscreen -screen=400x300

Which will make the game try to run fullscreen at 400x300 resolution.

5. Contact

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If you have an questions, comments, bug reports (yes please), patches (even better) or anything else related to C-Dogs SDL email:

Cong [email protected]