Grayout -Simple Linux freeware game

[Jonax]

Interesting. So the density can continue to increase, but hopefully (from my point of view) not too rapid. This complicates the coding but must be dealt with one way or another. Btw. I noticed Debian KDE goes further than Windows and offer 300% scaling. Not that I can meaningfully test that on my limited monitor.

And I do remember getting a 800x600 CRT monitor. Was a great improvement over the original VGA monitor I had. Not that I bothered with refresh rate back then. My system handled Delpi and Settlers 2 well enough and life was comparably simple.

Now I have begun some new scaling concept test coding. So far nothing to show. But I hope to be able to create something simple any month now.

The Grayout program will have to wait. The suggested extra features are interesting but they got to be postponed, mayhaps forever. Stil aiming to make an installer for debian and raspberry some day.

[Jonax]

I haven't made any updates on the Grayout program.

However I can mention there is already an 'Easter Egg' in the published version.

If you click the "Jonax | 2022" icon/image the auto-solve will kick in.

That is the non optimized algoritm which decides the number of awailable steps for the solution.

[SilverWarior]

That is the non optimized algoritm which decides the number of awailable steps for the solution.

This non-optimized algorithm is pretty effective. I had some problems finishing some of the puzzles in allotted number of turns. So it is pretty good

[Jonax]

So it is pretty good

Thanks SilverWarior

[Jonax]

Raspberry PI Update:


In theory the excellent Pascal/Lazarus software can be compiled on a number of different OSes.
In reality it's not always that simple.


Porting to Raspberry is even trickier than going from Windows to Linux. At least for a Raspberry Noob.
Finally I resorted to 32-bit PiOS and managed to install an older Lazarus version there (2.0) from 2019.


The Grayout program compiled on my Pi4 and is available at:


https://www.jonax.se/raspberry/grayout.php


I assume/hope the program will run on most Raspberry systems as long as the monitor is large enough.
In case any of you guys got some Raspberry PI feedback is welcome.


My other projects (MaxDE & PONX) are not (yet) portable to the PI. But I hope to be able to produce something simple for both Pi and Linux in the future. Though current new Linux project is also not compiling on PI.