Mines-Perfect Portable 1.4 Pre-Release (Minesweeper w/ extras)

I gave it a quick try and it seems good, haven't found any problem. Thanks for the game, would post here if found any problem.

That's pretty cool, considering it looks just like the normal minesweeper on the original board.

Edit: After spending more time playing around with it, I really like it.

I've been looking for more portable games as many Windows Machines in a shared, corporate environment have had the default Windows games removed. I think this is a great port and would make an excellent addition to the Portable Apps suite.

Better than Windows Minesweeper.
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R McCue
PortaBlog Home and My Website
And before anyone complains about the grammar, I'm so jetlagged that my
hands aren't even in the same time zone...

There is one bug in the package: Documentation from the Help menu doesn't work correctly, at least with Firefox as your default browser. It's linked from the help.html file in the base directory, though.
Maybe because it doesn't exist?
I wonder what URL it tries to open... Probably F:\Blah\Help.html
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R McCue
PortaBlog Home and My Website
And before anyone complains about the grammar, I'm so jetlagged that my
hands aren't even in the same time zone...

AVG detects a downloader.Zlob.DJW, and then moves it to Safe Virus Vault.
do i have to worry about that? or just ignore it?

Thanks for another app!

John,

I'm not running firefox as my default browser, but I've still got the 'help file bug'. I fixed it by placing a copy of the release help file in Data\settings\help\html.html. Does this fix the problem you had?

regards,
Peter

Wow I just installed it and it looks good.
i like the new borads

I've given it a quick test and it appears to work fine of my USB Drive.

It is very difficult to double click on the cell next to the cell I put the flag!

Apparantly Mines-Perfect uses the current directory when figuring out where to look for custom boards and sounds.

Currently custom boards are included in Mines-Portable under App\Mines-Perfect\boards. They do not work here, unless mineperf.exe is run directly. Since the launcher seems to use Data\settings as the current directory when running mineperf, it will only pick up on boards located in Data\settings\boards.

This also applies to the "help" directory, although the menu option for help seems to be broken if you have Firefox set up to handle HTML files (Mine-Perfect author needs to use backward slashes instead of forward for paths?).

Short version: Move App\Mines-Perfect\boards to Data\settings\boards, and App\Mines-Perfect\help to Data\settings\help. Might also want to move the log directory too.

Also, I was at first surprised you didn't include the sounds (in Data\settings\sounds, again). At least until I heard them, lol. At least the explosion one is good... someone should make a good sound pack to include.

IMO this is a very worthy addition to the small Portable Games category.

Hey, I've had your program for about 1 and 1/2 weeks now, and I've been addicted to it ever since. Nice interface, like the original minesweeper, but yet, you get cool features like the triangle and 3D boards to play on, which add a brand new depth to the game!

The program it self works great on all 3 of my computers (2 Laptops, 1 Desktop) at my house, and even the computers at my school, no glitches or anything! (all tested on XP SP2 and XP SP2 - Limited Accounts)

Keep up the good work!

~Jeffrey Yewcic

A lot better than Windows Minesweeper!

Thank you, I really like the extra features on this it add more of a challenge to the game.

This variation is quite cool, I love the new modes and the hex/triangle/3d stuff.

However I miss the feature that allowed you to automatically free squares around the current one if it was already 'full' when you pressed both buttons.

I like mines and its a shame I didn't discover the potable version earlier. It leaves nothing behind and should be included into the official Applist.

As mentioned in the original post, there is a bug cause the Help->Content button expects a help.html in the /Data/settings/help folder. But after manually copying the help.html from the root folder to the /Data/settings/help folder, it opened by clicking the menu.

So now everything works.

"There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!" - Richard P. Feynman

Congratulations, this is the best version ever!

I think this game is great and should be included in the offical app list (since there is only one game in there to begin with).

The computer allows you to make mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila.
-Mitch Ratcliffe

So far, it seems to work really good.

John,
Works great and even has a 3d grid!!!

Seems to work fine. Not sure if this is still in development but I'd like to see it. Only think that I don't like is the ugly Windows 98 icon. Lol.

Topic's not locked.

John, you told me earlier about how you can't really change the icon for Command Prompt Portable to the tango one because it's not GPL. I found an icon in vertigosity's Super Turbo Tango Patcher that was used to patch Windows Mine Sweeper to a tango style icon. I thought the icon would be Creative Commons, but I just discovered it's actually GPL, because it was made by someone else.

The icon is very nice, and would look MUCH better in the Mines-Perfect splash, and homepage, if not even the Launcher than the original. It's under the GPL, so it should be fine to incorparate with your launcher, and I notice that you used a different image for the Sudoku splash, so why not this, the icon with many great sizes can be found on this page, just ctrl+f "GPL" and look for Download GPL ICOs (358KB).

Here's a direct download. It's a small package as well, the file's under "November 2006 Icons\gnome-games".

Nice eh?

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