Eisbar v0.9

Eisbar v0.9

An old pub game where the objective of the game is to find the objective, i.e. the logic of the game.

The

E xtra

R eliable

W ay

of I nputting

N onsense

Is now using

Neal Bridges'

Q U A R T U S

to kill your time (or your sanity)

with the game of

E i s b ä r

Disclaimer:

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This game is written for PalmIII and WorkPad II devices, but may or may not run on other

PalmPilot or WorkPad versions. There are no warranties regarding data integrity, stability, usability and user’s sanity. Installation to your device and subsequent usage is entirely at your own risk.

Introduction:

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Quartus

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Quartus is Neal Bridges‘ project to give a real Forth design environment to the PalmPilot

community. You can find it, its history, as well as lateron the sources to this game via

http://www.interlog.com/~nbridges/quartus.html

Being a Forth old-timer myself (only if there is a Forth system available for it, it is a computer) I stumbled over Neal’s project and decided, for the first time in well over five years, to write code that exceeds the occasional "Hello World!" I normally hack up to check for the success of environment installations.

The Game of Eisbär

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The game was written and tested in two lazy afternoons to prove that it is an easy feat to hack

together something working real fast in Forth, care about the niceties, which I have to say, are

absolutely possible to implement using Quartus, later. So there are intentionally no fancy graphics, no buttons, only basic interfacing to the user and no sophisticated icon.

The objective of the game is to find the objective, i.e. the logic of the game. It is an old pub game, where normally one person in the know starts it up, preferably in a large, not too sober group. Then either the people one by one grasp what it is about and drag the last poor soul not getting it to the nearest asylum, or nobody else gets the knack and hence deliver the initiator of the game to said institution.

Installation and Gameplay

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Install the file Eisbaer.prc from this package to your PalmPilot or WorkPad device in the same way you usually install 3rd party applications.

To play, tap the application’s icon in your favorite app launcher and follow the on-screen

instructions. If input other then screen taps is requested you should input digits in the number input field of the device’s silk screen area. Each individual input, i.e. the figures you guessed, needs to be terminated by a Graffiti RETURN stroke.

Software Status

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Version Information

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This is Version 0.9 and currently contains no bugs I know of.

Until the time Neal lets us in to his secrets on how to properly utilize PalmPilot resources, I took the liberty to tweak the icon a little bit using OnBoard's onboard resource editor.

License Information

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This is Free/EgoWare; distribution and usage of final versions is free of charge as long as the application and this document are kept together. Nevertheless, inclusion in non-online software collections requires my written consent. If you feel like it, you can send me postcards, gadgets, whatever.

Author Information

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This game was written by me, Erwin Schomburg, Moerser Str. 31, D 40667 Meerbusch, Germany.

My e-mail is [email protected] but I do not answer requests for hints.