Punq, the Flea

En español

This little game was born in the Sinclair ZX81 times and now I have rewritten it for PDAs devices. It is an experimental job and there are not many features you'd find in commercial games, like spectacular special effects and so on, but it is a very funny and adictive game.

The primary target system is the Opie (or QTopia) environmet for Linux PDAs, but I have also made versions for Linux desktop and MS Windows that are identical to the PDA version.

You may use, distribute and copy "Punq, the Flea" under the terms of GNU General Public License version 2.

How to play

Click on the button to start.
You must eat the fruits and find a hole in the top side and escape through it.
Clicking on the and buttons more or less time you will gather momentum to jump.
For scroll, click the borders of the view or press the cursor keys.
You can exit the game by clicking on the button if you want to play again starting by the level 1. If you click on the 'close' icon of the window you will continue later at the current level.

For now there are only 9 levels, but you can design your own levels by editing the 'mapas.txt' file. You can test it writing the current level number in the '.punq' (or '~/.punq') file.

Download binaries

PDA

Requirements:

Opie environment on an ARM microprocessor based PDA.

Tested on:

Compaq Ipaq 3850 with Familiar Linux 0.6 and Opie 0.9.1.
Sharp Zaurus 5500 with its default libraries.
If anybody installs it in another device or operating environment versions please notify me, giving me instructions o comments to include them in this web page to help other players.

Installation:

Download de archive punq_0.1_arm.ipk in your PDA and use your favorite install program to install it.
If you want to install the game manually, download punq-arm.tar.gz, an archive whith all the components in a simple gzipped tar file.

Linux desktop

Requirements:

Linux Intel x86 width X11R6, Qt2 and glibc_2.1.3 or later.

Tested on:

Suse Linux 8.0. With its default libraries.

Installation:

Uncompress the archive punq-i386.tar.gz in any directory, cd to that directory an then type ./punq to play. You can make a shortcut to the executable file on the desktop or menu.win_req: Microsoft Windows 2000/XP, with the Non Commercial QT dll from Trolltech.

Windows

Requirements:

Tested on:

Windows XP. It runs perfectly.
Windows 2000. It runs perfectly.
Windows 98. It runs very slowly because of the poor timer resolution of W98. I'm Sorry.

Installation:

If you don't have the Non Commercial QT installed, you must download this archive and uncompress it in the Windows directory or, if you want to compile the source code, download the development library from Trolltech.
Next, download and uncompress the archive punq.zip in any directory and double click on the file punq.exe to play.
You can make a shortcut to the executable on the desktop or menu.

Download source code

• punq-src.tar.gz
  

  Source code for all architectures with Unix style line ends.

• punq-src.zip

  The same with DOS style line ends.