[Slackbuilds-users] game scribble slackbuild

[Jude DaShiell]

I use espeakup without xterm outside of x.  It could be only one rack
exists and each player takes from that rack to play the game.  With so
little documentation it can be hard to figure out sometimes.

On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, Didier Spaier wrote:

> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 08:51:09
> From: Didier Spaier <didier at slint.fr>
> Reply-To: SlackBuilds.org Users List <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org>
> To: slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org
> Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] game scribble slackbuild
>
> Hi Jude and all,
>
> Le 06/11/2019 ? 07:27, Jude DaShiell a ?crit :
> > I will check, but suspect the scribble game was not ported over from
> > debian correctly.  Reason for this suspicion is when computer plays the
> > first word it has a rack of letters.  The rack of letters is not decreased
> > as a result of playing that first word.  Worse though is when it's time
> > for the human to play the human doesn't get a rack of letters that show up
> > on the screen anywhere.  The debug command as near as I can tell does
> > nothing too.  If the game is this defective on debian then the slackbuild
> > builder could not do any better with what was ported from debian otherwise
> > we have a defective build on debian similar to the concept of that amish
> > interactive fiction game with only one possible outcome hard wired into
> > the game.  For any that haven't played that zcode game it will be quite
> > short.
> >
>
> Well, this package is not really a port, just the source tarball comes
> from Debian. Anyway the game works well for me (discarding the warning
> about termcap, that seems harmless):
>
> ---Beginning of screen display---
> didier[~]$ scribble
> Cannot find termcap: failed termcap lookup on xterm-256color at
> /usr/share/perl5/Term/ReadLine.pm line 373.
>
> Use: /usr/games/scribble <level>   (where level is 1 to 9)
> Level #1 (easiest) assumed...
> Reading words... (168075 found, 2039 w/ definitions)
>
>          86 letters remain
>    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E
>    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -     My Words
> 0| @     -       @       -     @ |0
> 1|   *       +       +       *   |1
> 2|     *       -   -       *     |2
> 3| -     *       -       *     - |3
> 4|         *           *         |4
> 5|   +       +       +       +   |5
> 6|     -       -   -       -     |6
> 7| @     -       *       -     @ |7
> 8|     -       -   -       -     |8  Your Words:
> 9|   +       +       +       +   |9
> A|         *           *         |A
> B| -     *       -       *     - |B
> C|     *       -   -       *     |C
> D|   *       +       +       *   |D
> E| @     -       @       -     @ |E
>    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E
>
>  me:0      E A E N A F A   you:0
>
> I go first...
> Looking...............
> Thinking.
>
> I placed at 67d:
>     4  UN  - one
> for a total of 4 points.
>
>          84 letters remain
>    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E
>    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -     My Words
> 0| @     -       @       -     @ |0   un(4)
> 1|   *       +       +       *   |1
> 2|     *       -   -       *     |2
> 3| -     *       -       *     - |3
> 4|         *           *         |4
> 5|   +       +       +       +   |5
> 6|     -       - U -       -     |6
> 7| @     -       N       -     @ |7
> 8|     -       -   -       -     |8  Your Words:
> 9|   +       +       +       +   |9
> A|         *           *         |A
> B| -     *       -       *     - |B
> C|     *       -   -       *     |C
> D|   *       +       +       *   |D
> E| @     -       @       -     @ |E
>    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E
>
>  me:4      E A E N A F A   you:0
>
> Enter word as "YXd <word>" (Y=row, X=col, D=a/d) or "help" for other commands.
> ---end of scree display---
>
>
> So the computer played first, the rack of letters was decreased from 86 to
>  84 and I got the rack of letters E A E N A F A.
>
> Maye an issue with a screen review function of the screen reader?
> Which one do you use? At least her espeakup works OK.
> Or do you use a Braille device?
>
> Best,
>
> Didier
>
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