Triplane Classic - a side-scrolling dogfighting game

Intro

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Triplane Classic is a side-scrolling dogfighting game featuring solo missions and multiplayer mode with up to four players. It is a port of the original Triplane Turmoil game for DOS and aims to match the original game exactly so that high scores remain comparable to the original.

Please read the manual page for information on how to actually play the game.

Copyrights

The original Triplane Turmoil was developed by Markku Rankala, Teemu J. Takanen and Henrikki Merikallio. Some work was also contributed by Risto Puhakka, Antti Lehtoranta and Mikko Kinnunen.

The portable SDL version was created from the original source by Timo Juhani Lindfors (timo.lindfors@iki.fi), Teemu J. Takanen (tjt@users.sourceforge.net), and Riku Saikkonen. We also thank Timo Lilja for his earlier Xlib porting efforts and Sami Liedes for spellchecking and optimization ideas.

Dodekaedron Software Creations Oy is the current copyright holder for the Triplane Classic source code, documentation, images and sounds. In 2009 it granted a license to distribute these under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.

SDL2 porting and CMake build scripts were done by Suomipelit Organization.

Trademarks

Triplane Turmoil is a trademark of Dodekaedron Software Creations Oy.

Triplane Turmoil 2 is a trademark of Draconus Entertainment Ltd.

Triplane Classic is not a trademark. However, if you make substantial modifications that, for example, change the scoring system, we encourage you to pick a new name for your modified game so that users are not confused.

Compiling from source

Requirements

• CMake
• C++ compiler: At least gcc, clang and Visual Studio are supported
• Libraries: SDL2, SDL2_mixer
  • On macOS, you can install these with Homebrew. brew install sdl2 sdl2_mixer
  • On Windows you can download these from SDL website

Building

mkdir bin
cd bin
cmake ..
cmake --build .

On Windows, you may need to explicitly specify paths to your SDL libraries, like

cmake -DSDL2_PATH="C:\\<path>\\SDL2-2.0.9" -DSDL2_MIXER_PATH="C:\\<path>\\SDL2_mixer-2.0.4" ..

which produces project files for 32-bit target. For 64-bit target, use e.g. cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64".

Browser build

Emscripten JavaScript/WebAssembly build for browsers is also supported. You can try it live here.

fokker.dks main data file must be built separately or borrowed from release package. Paste it to binary directory before progressing further.

cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=<path to>/emsdk/upstream/emscripten/cmake/Modules/Platform/Emscripten.cmake ..
cmake --build .

For best performance it is recommended to build with -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release.

It might be easiest to run local HTTP server with Python

python -m http.server

and opening the game with supported browser at http://localhost:8000/triplane.html.

Releases

v1.0.8-SP2 - 2020-07-21

• Web port
• Adjust window scaling with Alt + (KeyPad) Plus/Minus
• Fix cursor position in window mode
• Fix aspect ratio in full screen mode
• Fix mouse sensitivity in full screen mode
• Fix few busy loops

v1.0.8-SP1 - 2019-12-14

• Update to SDL2
• Add fullcreen option to GUI
• Toggle fullcreen with ALT + Enter
• Fix split transition
• Fix start-up problem if no player was created
• Minor maintenance

Contact

Suomipelit Slack

Original SDL port

Teemu J. Takanen tjt@users.sourceforge.net

Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindfors@iki.fi