
GtkScare is a GTK based GUI runner for the Adrift games. It is based on scare
1.3.2 by Simon Baldwin.

It should run on all the platforms having the GTK+2.0 toolkit, but has been
tested only on Linux. GtkScare can play most, but not all, Adrift games. It
supports most of the features of the Adrift games.

Features
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* Shows images & hints
* Supports scare debugger
* Debugging console
* Debugging can be done either in main console or debugging console or both.
* Input logging for both main window & debugging console
* Supports game font preferences
* Supports most scare tags
* Command history (access by pressing the up arrow key)
* Game readme viewer
* Remembers the game last played & verbose mode


GtkScare does not support playing of sound files, as this would have added
dependancy on yet another library. If there is interest in this, I will
consider adding it, it is fairly easy to do. In any case I think sound & music
are things that should be kept out of a text adventure, or else we might
as well play Myst.

When you enable input logging, two files will be created. All the text that
you enter in the main console goes to the file gtkscare_log.txt, and all the
text entered in debugging console goes to gtkscare_debug_log.txt. This way the
debug log is kept separate from the normal log.

You can give gtkscare the name of the game you want to open on the command line
like so:
gtkscare game.taf

But this will not run the game automatically. You still need to click on the
open game menu and the file selection dialog will be automatically filled up.
Just click ok & you are running. This also goes with remembering the last game
which was played. When you run Gtkscare, it will load the name of the game but
not autorun. Again you need to activate the open game menu & just click ok
on the file selection dialog.

Known bugs
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If you load a saved game from the File menu, gtkscare crashes. Cause of crash
is unknown, as gdb dosen't show me the location of the crash. If you wish to
load a game, type in load, and gtkscare will show you a load game dialog which
you can safely use.

License
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GNU GPL. See the file Copying.txt for details.

Copyright (c) Pallav Nawani 2004.
http://www.geocities.com/pallavnawani
http://www.ironcode.com
Bug reports about GtkScare can be sent to pallavnawani@yahoo.com

Credits
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Simon Baldwin for writing SCARE
Gaurav Nawani (http://www.geocities.com/gauravnawani) for designing
the nifty GtkScare logo.
Mark J. Tilford for 'starting the whole thing' (as Simon puts it :))

