NAME¶
tomatoes - Tomatoes smashing game
SYNOPSIS¶
tomatoes
SYNOPSIS¶
I Have No Tomatoes is an extreme leisure time activity idea of which
culminates in the following question: How many tomatoes can you smash in ten
short minutes? If you have the time to spare, this game has the vegetables
just waiting to be eliminated!
NOTES¶
Before starting the game, you should know that the game uses OpenGL for hardware
accelerated 2d & 3d graphics. This means that you must have fully OpenGL
compatible graphics card in your PC. Your card also needs to be able to use
512x512 textures, and this rules out Voodoo 1, 2 and 3 (limited to 256x256
textures).
As for the CPU and memory requirements, I'd recommend something along the lines
of Pentium II (or an AMD equivalent) and 64MB. The game works on much slower
systems as well, as the game skips frames if the system can't keep up with the
60 FPS rate; this ensures that the game runs at the right speed, you just
don't get very smooth animation.
This game features solid game play with beautiful OpenGL API driven isometric 3d
graphics and nice music. It also includes a MOD player, and you can use your
own MOD-type music in the game background. Just copy your XM/S3M/IT/MOD -
files to the
music subdirectory of
I Have No Tomatoes and the
game plays them. You can press
F1 to skip a song when ingame. There's
room for 128 MODs. Btw, if you don't have any MOD music, ModArchive
(www.modarchive.com <URL:www.modarchive.com>) is a good place to
download some.
CONFIGURATION¶
You may also want to set some options, such as the screen resolution and color
depth. By default,
I Have No Tomatoes starts fullscreen in 800x600
resolution, 32bpp. To fine-tune the preferences to suit your PC better, open
the file
config.cfg in a text editor (Notepad will do). Under Unix this
file is stored in
~/.tomatoes/.
Most likely you'll be interested in these lines:
- •
- video_mode = 800 x 600
- •
- video_mode_color_depth = 32
- •
- video_mode_fullscreen = 1
- •
- sound_enabled = 1
To set the resolution, change the
video_mode - line (some common
resolutions include 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768). Most common color
depths are 16 and 32, and sometimes 24.
video_mode_fullscreen controls
whether the game starts in fullscreen or in a window. When running in windowed
mode, you can use any resolution you want (the 4:3 aspect ratio modes are
still preferred). If you don't have a sound card (or want to turn the sounds
off), set
sound_enabled to 0 (zero).
Finally, if you want to know how many frames your system draws per second (FPS),
set
show_fps to 1. FPS should be over 60 for smooth animation.
The default keys can be changed from the Options menu in game, so no need change
them here.
When you're satisfied with the
config.cfg settings, by all means, proceed
to start the game :)
AUTHOR¶
You can contact the author by email at <lsoft@mbnet.fi>. Notice that since
12th of July, 2004 I've been in the army, so don't expect immediate responses.
Be patient :)
This man page was compiled by Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de> for
the GNU/Linux project but it may be used by everybody else as well.
SEE ALSO¶
Tomates homepage:
http://tomatoes.sourceforge.net
<
URL:http://tomatoes.sourceforge.net>