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| About |
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GNU Robbo is a free open source reimplementation of Janusz Pelc's Robbo
for the Atari XE/XL which was distributed by LK Avalon in 1989.

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| History |
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The first version of Robbo was released in 1989 by LK Avalon, and in a
short time became very popular in "little" Atari's world. Their main
developer Janusz Pelc did a very good job. There are rumours that he
wrote the game just three months before his graduation exam ;) In 1990
Janusz Pelc and LK Avalon released their next product -- Robbo
Konstructor -- which enabled people to create their own levels.

In 1991, Maciej Miasik (http://www.linkedin.com/in/tosiabunio) developed
The Adventures of Robbo for XLanD Games -- an updated PC-DOS port
of the Atari version -- and published by Epic Games. In 2006 Maciej
Miasik declared that the idea and code of the PC-DOS version to be
licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic
licence (http://www.miasik.net/archive/2006/06/moje-gry-dla-kazdego/).

I (Alus) just ported it to Linux trying to set Robbo's behaviour as 
similar as it is possible. You can still buy Windows version of Robbo
in "LK Avalon", with better graphics and new objects and levels.
Thunor joined the project in 2007 and completely rebuilt first version.
Version 0.60 and above was mostly his job ;)

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| A More Complicated History, Allegedly :p |
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Janusz Pelc's company XLanD Games created the Atari Robbo game and it
was distributed by LK Avalon, a promoter of independent developers. In
1991 whilst working for XLanD Games, Maciej Miasik created the PC version.
In 1994 XLanD Games agreed to sell the rights to the PC version to LK
Avalon and then XLanD Games went out of business. Later in 1996, Maciej
Miasik joined LK Avalon and worked on several projects until 2001. In
2006 with the permission of past and present LK Avalon employees he
released the PC version under a Creative Commons licence.

As far as licencing goes, any agreements between Janusz Pelc/XLanD and
LK Avalon regarding the Atari version disappeared with the demise of
XLanD Games, but the GNU Robbo team have been told that the Atari Robbo
game was the property of Janusz Pelc/XLanD Games and Janusz Pelc has no
problems with the existence of the GNU Robbo project.

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| Requirements |
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libSDL (plus libSDL-devel for source compilation)
Optional: libSDL_ttf (plus libSDL_ttf-devel for source compilation)

Most Linux distributions come pre-installed with libSDL and libSDL_ttf
but you will likely have to install the development versions yourself.

For more information about the SDL libraries, please visit
http://www.libsdl.org/ and http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_ttf/

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| Installation |
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See COMPILING.

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| Keys |
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Default PC controls :-

	Enter				Confirm
	Cursors				Move
	Cursors + RShift	Shoot
	R					Restart
	Escape				Exit

All keys are reconfigurable and are listed in Options. Digital and
analogue joysticks are also supported and it's possible to mix input
devices.

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| Command Line Options |
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GNU Robbo version 0.61
Usage: gnurobbo [options]

Options:
	-XRESxYRES	e.g. -800x480
	-ts n		Tile size 16 or 32
	-vpx		Maximise the viewport
	-f			Run the game fullscreen

The tile size of 16 is used in video modes less than 480x480.
On suitably large video modes, maximising the viewport will enable you
to see more of the level but this is considered cheating and is only
meant for level design and testing. Still, if you are interested in
designing levels you may want to try ./gnurobbo -800x600 -ts 16 -vpx

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| Level files |
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You can create own level files - more details can be found in
original.dat. Don't hesitate to send complete working levels to the
author. If it's sensible, be sure that it will be attached to official
game :-)

In the future I plan to release interface for graphical creating levels.

Homepage of this game is available at: http://gnurobbo.sourceforge.net

-- Alus and Thunor



