Conquerer of Toran
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(do not miss to look at https://sourceforge.net/projects/conquerer/ )
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What is it all about ?

Conquerer of Toran is a

game simulation based on a former AMIGA game. The software is entirely written in C++ and is freely available. The objective of this project was to learn how to program:
A screenshot of the client program can be found here.

Credits

The project maintainer would like to thank:

  1. Sonja L. for her patience while I am writing stupid games
  2. Karsten E. for hours of hours online testing, for testing Win32 version and especially for his contributions in designing a good, useable user-interface for the client.
  3. Matthias P. for this BOAO serialization code, for the idea of this game and many OOP design discussions
  4. Robert A. for providing facilities for testing session in munich
  5. Ralph K. for providing the sound module
  6. and some others, which tested the software

Download Area

There are two types of dsitributions, binary and source distributions.

Binary distribution

The binary distribution consists of two packages per platform (Win32/Linux).
1. A resource package containing all game resources such as icons, maps, images. This package complements the binary distributions. It does _not contain any executables.
2. A binary package for each platform.

Requirements for Linux: SuSE Linux 8.2, QT 3.1.2 package installed
Requirements for Windows: QT 3.1.2 DLL installed

Source distribution

Download the source package here

Requirements for Linux: SuSE Linux 8.2, gcc, QT 3.1.2-devel package installed including qt-header files.
Requirements for Windows: QT 3.1.2-devel package installed including qt-header files, MSVC6.0

Installation

The game is a client server application, so you need first to start the conqserver in order to play. The client need QT-3 runtime shared libraries. To test the game locally you
can use localhost as server.

Linux/Win32 binary distribution
In order to install a binary distribution properly do the following:
cd <somewhere>
mkdir conquerer
cd conquerer
tar xvfz Conquerer-resources.tar.gz
tar xvfz Conquerer-bin-XXXXX.tar.gz

Linux source distribution
The process is a usual:
tar xvfz Conquerer-x.xx.tar.gz
cd Conquerer-x.xx
./configure --enable-newgui
make

Windows source distribution
Unzip all files into a directory. Start your MSVC 6.0 compiler using the shipped conquerer.dsp file.

Running the stuff
First start the server
cd <somewhere>/conquerer/bin
conqserver

Switch to another shell and start or double click the client
cd <somewhere>/conquerer/bin
conqclient -o

Ensure that the working directory is the <somewhere>/conquerer/bin directory, since both server and client search their resources (icons, etc.) relative to this directory. The correct working directory is checked during startup.

Game Manual

A manual covering Conquerer basics can be downloaded (.zip, German only) or viewed online


Request for Contribution

Contributions are welcome for:

Last update 2003-07-23 by NEU