Guess the sequences selected by the computer.
The aim of Decode is to guess a sequence of four colours selected randomly by the computer. Load it on to the iconbar in the usual way and click Select on its icon to open the game window.
Sequences always contain four different coloured pegs from the row of ten at the top of the window: no colour will be used more than once. Up to twelve guesses can be made and after each, the computer will score the guess to show how close it is to the correct answer. Using this information, it should be possible to identify the chosen sequence.
Decode consists of a collection of un-tokenised BASIC, which must be assembled using the SFTools build environment. It will be necessary to have suitable Linux system with a working installation of the GCCSDK to be able to make use of this.
With a suitable build environment set up, making Decode is a matter of running
make
from the root folder of the project. This will build everything from source, and assemble a working !Decode application and its associated files within the build folder. If you have access to this folder from RISC OS (either via HostFS, LanManFS, NFS, Sunfish or similar), it will be possible to run it directly once built.
To clean out all of the build files, use
make clean
To make a release version and package it into Zip files for distribution, use
make release
This will clean the project and re-build it all, then create a distribution archive (no source), source archive and RiscPkg package in the folder within which the project folder is located. By default the output of git describe is used to version the build, but a specific version can be applied by setting the VERSION variable -- for example
make release VERSION=1.23
Decode is licensed under the EUPL, Version 1.2 only (the "Licence"); you may not use this work except in compliance with the Licence.
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