Fachoda Complex

A funy flight simulator

Fachoda Complex is a little game I wrote about 10 years ago. I coded this in 3 or 4 months while I was iddle. I was young and brave, then, but had never learnt to code cleanly. Don't look at the source code. Please.

Sounds is now broken. It worked on Gravis Ultrasound. The game requires a Pentium with MMX, and Nasm. Disable sound with -nosound, try -xcolor or the SDL version when experiencing troubles with colors.

This is old work. I will never upgrade this code, but I will certainly, one day, code another flight simulator. I even started then stopped already... Someone suggested me to add a reverse gear to the plane, and I will then incorporate this idea, and many more...

Get ready for Fachoda Complex II !! :-)

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Manual

legacy

Fachoda Complex is free, you are free, and I am free. If this deal looks suspicious to you, don't use.

the game

technical

Fachoda Complex is an airplane simulator.

You need a i586-MMX to run the game.

You do not need any particular library nor 3D card. If the X11 raw version fails you can still try a SDL port (download SDL from http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL).

playing alone

If fachoda can't connect to fachodasrv you will play in mono-mode. The aim is then to make money by destroying the more you can. Sometimes a special target will be spotted in your map with a magenta skull with a radio message telling the nature of the target : destroy it to earn a reward !

You can refuel, repair and rearm while landed at you base, but have to pay for everything.

You can also buy one of the plane that's parked in your home base by parking yours close to one that you can afford and hitting the key (see keys section).

When you earn money, the amount is printed in big blue characters in the center of the screen. Red ones when you lost it. After what the balance is printed in white for a second or two.

Your score is the maximal return on investment achieved during the whole play.

When you crash, you continue with just $55 in another plane of your side that is equivalent or cheaper than yours (if there's still one left -- that's why it's important to upgrade your plane as soon as possible !)

playing.com networked.com

Run fachodasrv and pass it through command line the number of expected players. Then each player run fachoda with the name of the machine thats running fachodasrv on the command line ('-host' option). If everything goes right, everything will go right.

the planes

You can fly six different planes :

• snophill (a red biplane with no bombing facilities) : $800
• dewoitine (a green good old plane) : $1000
• bogoplane (an ugly white war bird) : $2000
• spitflame (a raced red acrobat) : $4000
• corsair (escaped from the pacific) : $5000
• moshito (an orange bi-propulsed gunner) : $7000

controlling a plane

mouse

The mouse controls the flight stick. Left button fires the selected weapon, right button switches between guns and bombs.

If you dislike, you can play with keyboard instead ('-nomouse' option). The numeric keypad's <8>, <4>, <6> and <2> then works for up, left, right and down, while <5> centers the stick. You can also set keyboard sensitiveness in the option menu, and tune the neutral point of the flight stick during the play by the combinations <5>+<2> or <5>+<8> (that is : center+up and center+down) on the keypad.

In -nomouse mode, <space> fires and <control> switches between weapons.

keys

Here are a key list. You can redefine all these in the option menu.

ESC: Quit

+/- : throttle

F7/F8 : zoom in map mode and external views

F4 : swap between internal views (normal/dogfight)

F6 : external view (traveling)

F5 : swap between external views (around, satellite, pursuit, bomb)

F2/F3 : cycle through other planes of your camp, or through every plane of the game in view-all mode, or through close planes in dogfight view

F1 : view your own plane, or select the closest enemy plane in dogfight view

F10 : in bomb view, cycle through bombs

F9 : map view

P : autopilot

G : gears

F : flaps

B : wheel brakes

X : accelerated mode

S : set a flag at plane's location on the map (will appears on every other player flying in the same side's map)

N : set navpoint to home base

Arrows : watch in every direction in internal view ; move the map in map view

Home : back to front view (must be hold in dogfight view)

End : rear view (same)

Delete : left view

PgDown : right view

PgUp : up view

Insert (hold) : control panel view

Pause : guess what

F11 : sell your plane and by the closest one amongst those parked at your home base.

Enter (hold) : display the highs-cores

Mouse : move the command controls

Left click : fire with the active weapon

Right click : select the other weapon (guns/bombs)

F12 : suicide

control panel

Left side, in reading order : elevating speed, speed meter, slope indicator, throttle/fiul.

Right side : altimeter, bullets/bombs, compass, gear/flaps/brakes/autopilot.

Center : angle of attack.

troubles

notice

THE DGA MODE IS DANGEROUS BECAUSE YOU CAN HANG YOUR PC ! DO NOT USE 'FULLSCREEN' IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THIS RESPONSIBILITY !

when it fails

When it crashes, try with '-nosound', then try SDL version instead of the X11-raw one.

Also beware of the libs : if 'ldd' on fachoda returns some errors, that can be because your libs have not the expected names. Add a few links with 'ln -s your_files expected_files' (followed with 'ldconfig') to fix the problem. If you miss some library, install them. fachoda.x11 uses only very common libs.

When the colors seam to be random use the '-xcolor' option or (recommended) the SDL version, or try another depth for X ('X -bpp n' or 'xinit -- -bpp n').

When it can't connect to fachodasrv, search for the real first name of the host machine. Sometimes aliases do not work.

Tetard3d

Between game and demo

Kind of psychedelik game. I've coded this some years ago to test some soft rendering routines (wich were then used in Fachoda Complex).

Features : fast soft 3d rendering, phong-like shading, easy collision detection, variable tesselation of every surfaces, transparent shaddings, network "playable" (slow), dga capable.

Have a look to command line options. Some keys : 'q' quit, mouse to turn, mouse buttons to (ac/de)celerate and shoot. Try to find out the rules of the game.

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