The Labyrinth of Internationalization GearHead-1

*Related Sites

• GearHead - Mechanical Fantasy Construction Kit
  The master site of GearHead.
• GearHead II - The Universe is Expanding
  The oldie master site of GearHead.
• GearHead - Mechanical Fantasy Construction Kit
  The oldie master site of GearHead.
• Japanese Spoilers about GearHead-1
  The master site of Japanized GearHead-1, a Group of Jpananese Spoilers branch, based on l0ugh's branch. And there are Japanese spoilers.
• Let's make GearHead to Japanize (Provisional...)
  The oldie master site of Japanized GearHead-1, l0ugh's branch.
  • 2004-07-26 A guidebook for beginners (Japanese only).(1)
  • 2004-07-27 A guidebook for beginners (Japanese only).(2)
  • 2004-08-01 A guidebook for beginners (Japanese only).(3)
• GearHead(shimitei)
  The oldest master site of Japanized GearHead-1, shimitei's branch. It is another branch of the l0ugh's branch, perhaps.
• GearHead - Wikipedia(JA) Wikipedia, Japanese edition.
• GearHead MECH spoiler
  A Guidebooks for beginner of GearHead-1 for Japanese.
• GearHead : The way of life stays in the Mecha.
  PZ:game talks 10
  A introduction of GearHead-1 for Japanese.
• Essays of every day - 2006/1/12/Thi.
  A introduction of GearHead-1 for Japanese.
• I challenge the limit of doing as Roguelike in daily life.
  A Guidebooks for beginner of GearHead v0.852 for Japanese.
• 2003-11-19 JGeek Log
  A introduction of GearHead v0.800 for Japanese GNU/Linux user.
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• gearhead1-i18n.sourceforge.jp
  A repository for sources and data of I18N GearHead-1.

*Screenshots

There are screenshots of playing on SDL and CUI(ASCII).

The title of GearHead.

In a town.

On the field.

A battle scene of Mechas.

Samples of bidi-RTL by using Near Ancient Japanese. The function "bidi-RTL" is to handle Arabic and Hebrew. But we have no message data by Arabic and Hebrew. Therefore, I tested it by using Japanese. However, today's Japanese do not read it. :-O

Shopping.

*Internationalization GearHead-1 on SDL & CUI for almost all OSs

• Beta-Testing Releases:
  I18N version is completed and being tested now.
  
  

  Schedule:
                 Alpha-Zero version   : Sun,03 Aug,2008
                 Alpha-One version    : 1st of Wed,06 Aug,2008
                 Alpha-Two revocation : Sat,27 Sep,2008
                 Alpha-Two version    : Sat,04 Oct,2008
                 Beta version         : Sat,08 Nov,2008 Binary & Fri,07 Nov,2008 Message Data(ENG) / Fri,28 Nov,2008 Message Data(JP)
                 Beta-Two version     : Second on Thu,08 Jan,2009
                 Current version      : Done. (Thu,29 Oct,2009)
                 Pre version          : Done.
  Now ->       : Stable version       : Done. (Sun,06 Dec,2009)
  

  
  

  *Introductions and Features of I18N version

  • I18N version arose based on Origial GearHead-1(English version), Japanized GearHead shimitei version, Japanized GearHead l0ugh version and Japanese Spoilers Team version.
  • Support many languages and encodings, ASCII/ISO-646 (Engligh), EUC-JP (Japanese), EUC-KR (Korea), EUC-CN (Chinese), EUC-TW (Chinese, Taiwan), UTF-8 (So many languages), ShiftJIS (Japanese), CP932 (Japanese), ISO8859-1 to -16 (Some Europian languages), koi8-r/u (Some Cyrillic languages), tis620 (Thai)(Combining Character is not supported.), and so on.
  • "Languages written from the right to the left (bidi RTL)" (Arabic, Hebrew, Near Ancient Japanese, et al.) are supported.   "Combining Character" (Devanagri, Thai, Japanese, et al.) are not completely supported. But "Precomposed Character" are supported.   "Languages written from the up to the down" (Mongolian, Another style of Chinese/Japanese/Korean, et al.) are not supported.
  • Support many OS, FreeBSD(i386 and amd64), GNU/Linux(i686), MS-Windows(32bit edition).   GNU/Linux(amd64), MS-Windows(64bit edition), Macintosh, Mac OS X, Solaris and SunOS are not tested because I have no such computers.
  • So many petty bugs were corrected, thanks to members of BBS for Japanised GearHead on SHI-TA-RA-BA.
  • Codes for inspecting errors and avoiding crashes were added.
  • Bugs of improper memory access were corrected.
  • Many useful functions were added.
  • Various screen size were supported. On ASCII(CUI), sizes from 80x25 to over 90x50 were supported. On SDL, sizes from 640x480 to over 1600x1200 were supported, of course you can use irregularity sizes, such as 800x480, 1024x600, 1400x1050 and so on.
  • Various cheat functions were added.
  • The caliber function was backported from GearHead-2.

  *Get the Binary Packages

  • The binary programs of I18N GearHead-1 support all languages, but we have only two data sets, for English and for Japanese. If you want other languages, please translate message & series data set by yourselves.
  • history.txt Update histories and current jobs (Japanese only).

  
  
• Choice a language.
  • GearHead1100i18n.txt.jp.lzh
    Release: Fri,22 Jan,2010   Size: 1438KiB
    Japanized message & series data on SDL & CUI(ASCII) for I18N GearHead-1.
  • GearHead1100i18n.txt.eng.lzh
    Release: Fri,22 Jan,2010   Size: 901KiB
    English message & series data on SDL & CUI(ASCII) for I18N GearHead-1.
  
  
• Choice image types, only for SDL.
  • GearHead1100.image.lzh
    Update: Thu,13 Mar,2008   Size: 3143KiB
    Image data on SDL for I18N GearHead-1 for all languages.
  • GearHead1100i18n.image.color_barrier_free_test.lzh
    Release: Mon,12 May,2008   9KiB
    Additional image data, testing to suit color barrier free, on SDL for I18N GearHead-1 for all languages. This data need GearHead1100.image.lzh too.
  
  
• Choice a OS.
  • GearHead1100i18n.bin.FreeBSD.tar.bz2
    Release: Thu,29 Oct,2009, Update: Thu,29 Oct,2009   Size: 3335KiB
    I18N GearHead-1 binary programs on SDL & CUI(ASCII) for FreeBSD 6.x-RELEASE/(i386|amd64-WITH_LIB32) for all languages.
  • GearHead1100i18n.bin.MSWin32.zip
    Release: Thu,29 Oct,2009, Update: Thu,29 Oct,2009   Size: 2207KiB
    I18N GearHead-1 binary programs on SDL & CUI(ASCII) for MS-Windows(WIN32) for all languages.
  • GearHead1100i18n.bin.Linux.tar.bz2
    Release: Thu,29 Oct,2009, Update: Thu,29 Oct,2009   Size: 2151KiB
    I18N GearHead-1 binary programs on SDL & CUI(ASCII) for GNU/Linux/i686 for all languages.

How to Play It:

• Please write descriptions, instead of me. I'm so tired.

Notes And Notices:

• If you use Japanese, Korea, Chinese or Chinese-TW, I recommend to use EUC-JP/KR/CN/TW.
• If you run on FreeBSD, it is required that libraries of "FreeBSD/i386 6.x" or "compat6x-i386".
  The version of "for FreeBSD" was tested on FreeBSD/i386 6.3-RELEASE and FreeBSD/amd64 6.3-RELEASE.
• The version of "for GNU/Linux" was tested on FedoraCore4 BSD/Linux/i686 2.4.2, Debian 3.1(sarge) GNU/Linux/i686 2.6.20.x, Vine 3.2 GNU/Linux/i686 2.4.xx.
• The version of "for MS-Windows(WIN32)" was tested on Wine 1.1 and MS-Windows XP Home 32bit edition.

*Get the Source-code

• gearhead1-i18n.sourceforge.jp
  A repository for sources and data of I18N GearHead-1.
• 
  
• history.txt Update histories and current jobs (Japanese only).

FAQ

• Please translate descriptions from Japanese, instead of me. I'm so tired.

*Thanks to / Credits

Joseph Hewitt, original developer of GearHead, and cooperators.

shimitei, initiator of Japanized GearHead, and cooperators.

l0ugh, core developer and core translator and core maintainer of Japanized GearHead ASCII version, and cooperators: No.422, No.912, +7boomerang, Ago, Fin., shimo, Alba and et al.

No.422 at GearHead-2nd-thread on @-Nest in SHI-TA-RA-BA BBS, developer of High-Speed-Displayed ASCII(CUI) version of Japanized GearHead for MS-Windows-JP-Edition. And cooperators.

No.937 at GearHead-4th-thread on @-Nest in SHI-TA-RA-BA BBS, developer of Japanized GearHead SDL version, and cooperators.

A Manager of spoilers for Japanized GearHead, and cooperators.

Members of BBS for Japanised GearHead on SHI-TA-RA-BA BBS, and anonymous cooperator.