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	theme posted by Anonymous @ 82.171.114.167 on Jan 31 2006 11:04 AM
funny principle, With birdflue virus slowly spreading across the world and all...
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	awesome posted by bigfatdude @ 66.254.246.198 on Dec 10 2005 2:32 AM
I am in love with this game! Levels don't get challenging quickly enough but the normal mode is awesome
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Re: awesome posted by farrer @ 200.150.25.13 on Mar 18 2006 1:44 PM yes.. really awesome!   [Reply]

	THE CHICKENS ARE BACK! posted by moistrous @ 155.33.85.161 on Dec 8 2004 9:34 PM
THE CHICKENS ARE BACK! I just got an email from someone who wants to take over the development for my chickens game!! I've since stopped working on it, and it's cool to see someone else interested in working on the game, so stay tuned!
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Re: THE CHICKENS ARE BACK! posted by KFM @ 24.28.40.87 on Dec 14 2004 5:06 PM :D I like it! It's a lot of fun!   [Reply]   Re: THE CHICKENS ARE BACK! posted by moistrous @ 155.33.85.161 on Mar 21 2005 4:14 PM   Here is the new chickens homepage: http://www.hs-linux.de/chickens As i mentioned a few months ago, somebody offered to take over the development after I stopped. I have handed over the project to this fellow, and he is planning to rewrite the game from (chicken) scratch, so expect some delicious changes. It's been fun, thanks to those of you who played!   [Reply]

	Development stopped :( posted by gnalle @ 62.79.97.134 on Sep 23 2004 11:09 AM
From the download page THE PRIORITY OF CHICKENS FOR LINUX FOR ME HAS SUNK VERY LOW. THE GAME HAS BEEN INDEFINITELY PLACED ON HOLD. I am losing interest in programming and I am sad to say I will probably never come back to this game or any others. I have been a slave to my computer for five years.. There is so much more to life than computers, i'm damned sick of programming. I want to make more movies. I still have my website with lots of videos I've done, and other cool shit. www.kosmokrator.org I suggest you go there. P.S. - An ICQ friend is thinking about taking over, or doing at least something with the chickens source code. Even if he doesn't you should go to his website www.michianimations.de
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	CLONE? posted by Toddd @ 195.158.180.127 on Sep 23 2004 9:04 AM
Is this a clone of http://brainchilddesign.com/Bottom.php?Page=Games&SubPage=Chickens2 ???
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Re: CLONE? posted by moistrous @ 155.33.85.161 on Sep 26 2004 9:21 PM   hi, yah it's a clone... but it's totally rewritten, new artwork, sound, more features, etc... so, more than a clone i'd say it's my take on the original chickens 2 game.. thanks for the high rating :)   [Reply]

	Brilliant posted by Anonymous @ 212.158.246.10 on Jul 16 2004 7:59 AM
This game is brilliant -- very fun
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	Please tell me your Ideas posted by moistrous @ 142.167.175.168 on Jul 14 2004 11:19 PM
Important Announcement Hello, I am remodelling the game and I want your ideas on improvements, so I can design the code with a finalized vision in my brain. Please go to http://havoc.sourceforge.net/chickens/ideas.php to quickly and easily send me your Idea. Now is the time to tell me what you want from your Chickens experience!!
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	Chickens for Linux! posted by Anonymous @ 81.7.81.125 on Jul 14 2004 1:39 PM
Hello, The game is more and more exciting. I have a few propasals and fixes.. 1. Fix that god damn sound.. It's slow with the new version of allegro. I'm using gentoo alsa. Everything is up to date (i guess) 2. That "Select mode" page is horrible. Change it please :] You could add new weapons. Make diffrent and more interesting maps. Change the terrain (some mountains or trees). Let people to choose the map. Make it possible to miss more chickens.. For example 3.. Add bigger chickens :) That give you more points.. Like a bonus ;) If you kill 5 chickns at a time (not tenderizer) you get a bonus :) If you dont miss your shotgun shots 5 times you get a bonus :) And smth like that.. Maybe it's more hard to do it but it's fun :) The game is getting better and better ;) Good luck
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Re: Chickens for Linux! posted by moistrous @ 142.167.175.168 on Jul 14 2004 9:19 PM   Dude, what's wrong with my Select a Mode screen?? I like everything about it...a chicken that chases your mouse, bloody footprints, and music... what's not to like? I'm sure what the laggy sound problem is, it's probably something you can fix with your allegro.cfg I'm not sure how far i want to take this game, but i'll consider some of your more plausible proposals :)   [Reply]   Re: Chickens for Linux! posted by moistrous @ 142.167.175.168 on Jul 14 2004 9:32 PM   After 2 minutes of serious thought and concentration, I've decided to go along with your proposals. It will require a sh!tload of hacking, so much in fact that i'll probably end up rewriting most of it from scratch. Even in the current version, all the new features are junked up code because I never planned on having them to begin with. I think i'll make an outline of this new version, with every feature and bonus idea we can think of. I will write a somewhat unnecessary php script to let people submit ideas to include in the new version. When i do that (it should be online in an hour or so) I will give a link to it. It will all be worth it in the end.. it always is.   [Reply]

	RPM posted by OldJohnno @ 203.87.31.169 on Jul 11 2004 5:35 PM
This is challenging enough to be fun, at least until the novelty of vapourising chickens wears off. For those too lazy to build from source there is an RPM here.
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	CHICKENS ROCKS posted by Anonymous @ 209.115.249.136 on Jul 11 2004 10:30 AM
This game is so BOSS. Man, is it ever difficult, though.
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	SLOW posted by caleb256 @ 202.0.37.152 on Jul 10 2004 4:46 AM
anyone else found this game _REALLY_ slow I am on a amd athlon xp 2500+ so it should not be slow but it is.. :/
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Re: SLOW posted by Anonymous @ 213.190.36.111 on Jul 10 2004 10:05 AM   yes... :/ I was playing this game with kernel dev-sources-2.6.5-r1. Though i had no sound but the game was running pretty fast. Today i updated my kernel to dev-sources-2.6.7-r8. I now have sound (whoohoo) but the sound is "slow" and shattered. The game is also slower.. But it's still palyable.. Thanks for the updates :). Good luck.   [Reply]   Re: SLOW posted by caleb256 @ 202.0.37.152 on Jul 10 2004 2:13 PM downgrade your alergro vertion cause that fixes the sound problems :D   [Reply]   Re: SLOW posted by caleb256 @ 202.0.37.152 on Jul 10 2004 2:14 PM I mean like slow unplayable :/   [Reply]   Re: SLOW posted by moistrous @ 142.167.172.231 on Jul 10 2004 7:02 PM   wait, downgrading allegro fixes the slow gameplay problem, or the messed up sound? btw thanks for your comments... but i think you accidentally clicked "3 stars" instead of "5" :P   [Reply]   Re: SLOW posted by caleb256 @ 202.0.37.152 on Jul 10 2004 7:19 PM fixes the sounds and its 3 untill speed probs are fixed up :D but you can have 4   [Reply]

	i am the champion posted by Anonymous @ 217.1.133.97 on Jul 10 2004 3:24 AM
I got so many points that i cosed integer overflow! without doing anything. The new chickens exploded as they came to the world
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Re: i am the champion posted by moistrous @ 142.167.172.231 on Jul 10 2004 7:06 PM   uh oh. Did this happen right from the start, or did you use the Chicken Tenderizer? please let me know exactly what you did up until they started killing themselves. (maybe those damned evil chickens realized they're no match for us and decided to surrender)   [Reply]   Re: i am the champion posted by Anonymous @ 217.94.112.125 on Jul 11 2004 4:50 AM   there is the main for loop(in main.cpp or so), which handles all chickens and checks if the weapons where fired: for i in chickens'range;do if weapon fired check if it reaches the chicken,if yes kill chicken[i] score += 100; fi done and what i did: for i in chickens'range;do kill chicken[i]; score += 10000000; done :) cheers i don't need to do anything at all   [Reply]   Re: i am the champion posted by moistrous @ 142.167.172.249 on Jul 11 2004 1:39 PM   hahaha you sly dog   [Reply]

	Chickens for Linux! posted by Anonymous @ 213.190.36.111 on Jul 7 2004 2:04 PM
Hi, Tried your game on gentoo. I liked it though i have some comments: 1) No sound and no errors. I'm using alsa. 2) I don't like to turn the game every time when it ends. Please make some sort of replay. 3) Did not find any instructions how to switch the weapon. 4) Make some sort of configuration file to change options of the game :) Good luck
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Re: Chickens for Linux! posted by moistrous @ 142.167.175.99 on Jul 7 2004 10:02 PM   hi, thanks for playing :) 1) Every now and then when I run the game I also don't get sound. Most of the time it works, so I think it might be a sound driver problem with Allegro. I installed slackware 10 the other day and I'm (still) using ALSA with OSS modules and the sound works every time now.. I'd suggest updating your sound driver, but you're in Gentoo so you probably update constantly anyway! 2) You're right, I really should add a replay button... You can hit 'R' to restart the game, but only while you're playing, so it's kind of useless. 3) Sorry I still haven't documented it, just use the Right mouse button for shotgun. 4) What sort of options? I didn't think it has much to configure, but if you explain what you mean i'd be more than happy to go along with it. Thanks for your input! - blake   [Reply]   Re: Chickens for Linux! posted by Anonymous @ 213.190.36.111 on Jul 8 2004 5:24 AM   options: I would like to control the speed and the amount of chickens. I would also like to control the power of guns. Even time :) It gives more freedom :) I love to blow everything off after a hard day :))   [Reply]   Re: Chickens for Linux! posted by moistrous @ 142.167.175.24 on Jul 9 2004 4:21 PM   hi, earlier today i released 0.2.1 which lets you play again once you get gameover, and it has some bug fixes and such. Next i'll work on the config file thing and a couple remaining bugs, one of which was introduced in this new version :) The bug is: Flying chickens can be killed with rockets, no matter how high up they are.   [Reply]   Re: Chickens for Linux! posted by moistrous @ 142.167.175.108 on Jul 11 2004 9:19 PM   I've written a full-fledged configuration file, options.cfg ... Currently there are 22 game variables you can edit! Enjoy :)   [Reply]   Re: Chickens for Linux! posted by Anonymous @ 62.203.198.202 on Jul 8 2004 1:29 AM   what libraries did you install? I emerged the allegro package, but when I try to compile chickens, I get lots of unresolved references. Any idea?   [Reply]

	Game speed posted by Anonymous @ 213.23.155.169 on Jul 7 2004 12:19 PM
Is it only me, or are the chickens high speed ones ?
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Re: Game speed posted by randallray @ 66.25.59.24 on Jul 10 2004 1:14 PM   They seem fast but it did make me laugh. Installed perfectly and ran great no prob's here.   [Reply]

	Can't shoot flying chickens posted by straver @ 62.20.177.244 on Jul 1 2004 8:13 AM
Sense you can only the shotgun precisly over the ground you can't shoot the chickens that fly high enough.
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Re: Can't shoot flying chickens posted by Anonymous @ 142.167.172.171 on Jul 2 2004 12:28 PM   umm no... shoot the shotgun by right-clicking. it can shoot as high up as you want. The left-click rockets will only hit the ground.   [Reply]

	chickens posted by Anonymous @ 142.158.150.126 on Jun 29 2004 11:07 AM
tons of fun
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	Compiler error posted by straver @ 62.20.177.244 on Jun 28 2004 7:35 AM
g++ -c -o level.o level.cpp level.cpp: In member function `void LEVEL::create()': level.cpp:18: error: conversion from `int' to non-scalar type `fix' requested make: *** [level.o] Error 1 what's this 'fix' type?
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Re: Compiler error posted by moistrous @ 142.167.175.196 on Jun 28 2004 10:57 AM   did you download the 0.1.8 release? In an older release i was using "fix" when i meant "fixed", but they should've been "int" after all. Just to be safe, i ran 'grep fix *.cpp' and there is only one line with fix, but it's unrelated and is in animation.cpp You must be running an older version. If you did download the new version, maybe you extracted the files to the old chickens folder, in which case you should run 'make clean' to delete any old object files that may be lingering.   [Reply]   Re: Compiler error posted by straver @ 62.20.177.244 on Jun 28 2004 1:35 PM   I'm 100% sure that I'm running 1.8. I tried grepping for fix myself and I didn't find anything.   [Reply]   Re: Compiler error posted by moistrous @ 142.167.175.196 on Jun 28 2004 4:23 PM   that's messed up... i'll try to fix this problem in the next release... fix, get it? i'm so clever you know   [Reply]   Re: Compiler error posted by Anonymous @ 65.37.54.105 on Jun 29 2004 6:17 AM   I added #include "math.h" to that file, and it fixed this problem.   [Reply]   Re: Compiler error posted by straver @ 62.20.177.244 on Jun 29 2004 9:24 AM   yep, I've tried that also but the build doesn't work properly.   [Reply]   Re: Compiler error posted by Anonymous @ 62.57.112.172 on Jun 28 2004 7:06 PM   Must be some allegro stuff... grep the allegro sources for fix, including fix.h I have the same happening with (latest?) version 0.1.8b and allegro 4.1.9 (suse9.1)   [Reply]

	Chickens for Linux! posted by Anonymous @ 80.3.160.6 on Jun 24 2004 11:09 AM
$ make g++ main.cpp -o chickens -lalttf -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,-export-dynamic -lalleg-4.0.3 -lalleg_unsharable -lm -lpthread -lXxf86dga -lXxf86vm -lXext -lX11 -ldl main.cpp:3:22: allegttf.h: No such file or directory main.cpp: In function `int _mangled_main()': main.cpp:520: error: `aatextout_center' undeclared (first use this function) main.cpp:520: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) main.cpp:677: error: `antialias_exit' undeclared (first use this function) main.cpp: In function `int load_fonts()': main.cpp:702: error: `ALLEGTTF_REALSMOOTH' undeclared (first use this function) main.cpp:702: error: `load_ttf_font' undeclared (first use this function) main.cpp: In function `void show_statistics()': main.cpp:774: error: `aatextprintf' undeclared (first use this function) main.cpp:781: error: `aatextout_center' undeclared (first use this function) main.cpp: In function `void initialize()': main.cpp:788: error: `antialias_init' undeclared (first use this function) make: *** [all] Error 1 Tried googling for allegttf.h, no pages found. Using debian/unstable
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Re: Chickens for Linux! posted by afonsocsc @ 81.193.199.52 on Jun 24 2004 12:45 PM   first link that appears on google: http://games.linux.sk/index.php?action=lib&id=3&pid=1   [Reply]   Re: Chickens for Linux! posted by Anonymous @ 80.3.160.6 on Jun 24 2004 2:19 PM   Bah, I knew I shouldn't have got up this morning. Still it's quite an entertaining diversion :)   [Reply]   Re: Chickens for Linux! posted by moistrous @ 142.167.172.180 on Jun 24 2004 4:01 PM   Hi, sorry about not having a link to AllegTTF... I wasn't using it at the time i submitted the game. Let me update it...   [Reply]