After a couple of years' development, I'm pleased to announce the first full release today of Puzzles 1.00 -- just in time for the London Show[1]. A port
of Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection[2], Puzzles is a set of 40 single-player games which run on the desktop.

With the arrival of version 1.00, Puzzles offers the following features:

* 40 separate puzzle games which are playable on the desktop using a fully
RISC OS-compliant interface.
* Full undo and redo, game solutions, and the ability to save a game's state
and re-load it with all of the previous steps intact.
* Games can be exported as sprites, and many will also copy their state to
the clipboard in a textual form that may be convenient if you wish to post
it in an email or chat forum.
* Cross-platform compatibility for saved games and "Game IDs" with ports on
other platforms (share your games with Windows users or play them on your
smartphone).

Copies of version 1.00 are available to download from my website, and can
also be found on the PlingStore. Over the weekend, they should also start to become available via PackMan. The upstream code is licensed under the MIT Licence, and the RISC OS front-end is under version 1.2 of the EUPL.

https://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/risc-os/games

If you're at the London Show (and if that's still in the future[1]), there should be a copy running on my stand.

I must once again say "Thank You" to Simon and the other contributors to the collection, both for making such an interesting set of games available completely free of charge and for making them so easily portable that it's
been possible to get a RISC OS version running with very few compromises to
the Style Guide.

There's still some work to do to the RISC OS port of Puzzles, so watch out
for future updates. And if you find yourself playing it, why not let me know
-- it's always easier to justify development time if other people will be
using the end result!


1. Given that this announcement was submitted to the CSAA moderator far too late for the show date, the event may have already passed by the time you
read this!

2. https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

--
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/


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