Depot Games: bip

Current Version: 0.1.2

Project Status: Completed

Highest Popularity: #7 during February 2008

Links: Web Site

Category: Other

Developers: matt bushell

Ports: Linux, Windows

Source Code: Not Available

Author's Description: Flight sim, no honest it is... no ok it isnt but its a laff! A clone of the Intellivision Biplanes from the Tiple Action rom and a clone of Biplane Duel on the amiga ;o)

unzip bip.zip and play, the allegro.dll is bundled with it but it was the easyest way for the world at large to get it

maff

Downloads

Name	Comments	Size	Date
bip.tar.gz	Linux Binary	940,325	05/29/2007 6:05 PM
bip.zip	Windows Binary	1,042,939	05/29/2007 6:06 PM

What's New:

0.1.2
Implamented Networking, and wrote a network server bs.exe bit ropey at the moment but better than 8 people round one keyboard ;o)

0.1.1
Upped from 4 to 8 players ( on one keyboard!!!, well no actually try using multiple USB keyoboards plugged into a single machine )

0.0.10
24.09.02
Fixed keys to select skin bug
Made players sprites able to be any size ( all must be same )
Used DRAW_OFFSET var instead of 17 above
Fixed to not cut off sprites
Made 1/2 clouds go behind hills, half infront
Removed pointless extra ini load on skin swap
Stop and Restart timer when chaning skins ( keeps scrolling smooth )
Kills video bitmaps on skin swap, probly should kill more stuff too
Crashing into another player does NOT score a kill = longer games
Fixed y 17 pixel offset bug in mask
Implamented network test code, is it avail? for future net based play

0.0.8
v0.0.7 29.06.02
Added squit loads of error checking
Fixed file finding under unix
Compiles ( Warning free ) and Runs under SuSE linux 7.3
Compiles and Runs under PS2 Linux ;o) SLOW!

v0.0.8 10.07.02
Fixed weird takeoff bug
Fixed scoring bug
Fixed stopped flight sounds when resetting
Made collision detection pixel perfect with pmask

0.0.6
.Fixed bug in bipMoveSprites() that made planes drop like a rock they now maintain momentum when they stall .Added Plummet_stuff
.Turned planes around from their initial position to emulate amiga bip
.Number of clouds based on resolution
.Implamented initial sound
.Implamented delay on noncontrol keys (Pause Mute Fps Debug Help)
.Implamented balloon extra/code