fallout-terminal-clone

fallout-terminal-clone

What is fallout-terminal-clone?

fallout-terminal-clone is a recreation of the "terminal hacking" system
in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas developed with curses. It runs directly
in your terminal or command prompt. I made this as a fun and interesting
way to explore C.

Instructions

Use the arrow keys (by default) to move, and ENTER to choose your selected letter. Ctrl-C to quit.

Building

WINDOWS

    Requirements:
        MinGW installed with the following packages:
        - mingw32-gcc
        - mingw32-pdcurses (dev and dll)

    Once the above dependencies are satisfied, simply open 
    a command prompt in the source directory and run:
        make

    If you get an error about gcc not being found, you most
    likely didn't add MinGW tools to your path. Either do
    that, or change the line:
CC = gcc
    to read:
CC = C:\MinGW\bin
    (assuming you installed MinGW in that location)

LINUX

    Requirements:
        - gcc
        - ncurses

    Once the above dependencies are satisfied, simply open 
    a terminal in the source directory and run:
        make

OSX

    Requirements:
        Xcode Tools (just run xcode-select --install)

    Once this is finished, simply open 
    a terminal in the source directory and run:
        make

TODO list:

Try spawning processes with exec, rather than system
Screen centering
Have a typing animation for the guesses, as well as a list of preivous guesses
Possible mouse support?

Bugs:

Fallout 3 doesn't seem to play nice with the launching. But I haven't
tested this much. You may just be better off putting this program in a
batch file.

The OSX binary may segfault with error 11. This hasn't happened with the
couple macs I've tested it on, but my friend's mac does it constantly. It
may have something to do with having development xcode tools installed.    

Thanks to:

/u/aftli_work for suggesting macros (before I knew what they were)

I do not own the idea for this game, nor do I claim any ownership of Fallout 3 or Fallout: New Vegas. Those copyrights are the property of Bethesda Softworks.