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LBreakout2 is another multi-platform game written by the same programmer as LBreakout. The new features of the games include more than 50 levels, level editor and networking, which enables user to play on-line by connecting to LBreakout2 server. I haven't tried that yet though. You can find more info at the LBreakout2 homepage.

Let's check out the screen-shot:

A tip to compile this game for Mac OS X is to configure the source with the nls disable. I'm not very sure what nls is either if you ask me what it is. Anyway, if you wanna compile it for your Mac OS X, you need to get/do the following:

1. SDL, SDL Mixer, SDL Net, and PNG installed first
2. Get the source code of the game: lbreakout2-2.6beta-5.tar.gz
3. Untar it, $ tar -xzvf lbreakout2-2.6beta-5.tar.gz
4. Configure the source: $ ./configure --disable-nls
5. $ make (like usual, it'll take awhile)
6. $ sudo make install
7. To run the game, type $ lbreakout2

For Mac OS X users, there is already a pre-compiled game, nicely packed for you for LBreakout2. If compiling game is not your cup of tea, get the dmg file here: breakout2-2.5beta-3.dmg

Enjoy!

I'm pretty bored today, and I wanna take a break from learning Python. So, I decided to compile an open source game, LBreakOut (L is for Linux), for my PowerBook.

In order to compile this game, you need obviously the source code of the game where you can get it from here. Additionally, you need the SDL library, where you can get it from www.libsdl.org.

Here is the screen-shot of game running on my PowerBook:

The game could be compiled fine, with lots of warnings but no error. However, when I run the game, the high score cannot be saved, and there is one data file could not be loaded. I'll dig around to see the problems later. As for now, it can be played alright… Here is the error message, should anyone know how to fix this:

$ lbreakout
LBreakout 010315
Copyright 2000 Michael Speck
Level Charts by Jean-Philippe Martin
Enjoy the game!
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cannot read 'lbreakout.hscr': permission denied...
cannot write '': permission denied...