This game needs SDL libraries installed. The object is to use logic to smash the marbles. Run via Menu->Fun->LMarbles, or by typing lmarbles.Marbles is an Atomix clone with a slight change in concept. Instead of assembling molecules you create figures out of marbles. Nevertheless, the basic game play is the same: If a marble starts to move it will not stop until it hits a wall or another marble. To make it more interesting there are obstacles like one-way streets, crumbling walls and portals.
As Marbles is meant as a puzzle game you play against a move limit and not a time limit. This way you have as much time as you need to think.
lmarbles: SDL based marble game
lmarbles: SDL based marble game
http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php ... t=LMarbles
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I had to google to find out what an archive bomb was. I got 847 "hits" for archive bomb, 59500 for lmarbles and 0 for archive bomb & lmarbles.From f-prot's own site:
http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php ... t=LMarbles
then just compiled it & uploaded. I just played a couple of games & didn't detect anything unusual but....caveat emptor!
I suppose this covers the lmarbles .pet as it has been compressed with upx, then the package itself is an archive. Whether there's any other nasties lurking in the package I don't know. I downloaded it directly from here,An archive bomb is a file that is repeatedly compressed. These archives can cause scanners or other programs to crash or hang because of intensive resource consumption during the scanning of hundreds of levels of archives within archives.
http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php ... t=LMarbles
then just compiled it & uploaded. I just played a couple of games & didn't detect anything unusual but....caveat emptor!
I've installed the pet and my laptop hasn't exploded yet.
I think the first time I ran it I got an error screen that said I was missing an SDL library (mixer I think). I had a look at my configuration, changed nothing and reran it without error.
I think the first time I ran it I got an error screen that said I was missing an SDL library (mixer I think). I had a look at my configuration, changed nothing and reran it without error.
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I think somebody pointed out, some time ago, that f-prot doesn't scan for anything that would be noxious for a linux system, but rather for windows. But as probably most puppists aren't strictly puppy only, ( and even if they were, we wouldn't want to be a "carrier"), I think it's good that you raised your concerns.
anyway, i sent of a query to the lmarbles website to see what they think. But I suspect that it's the case that the scanner, when it can't see inside the archive, plays it safe & declares it noxious. Although I just extracted the archive, to see how many discrete files it contained, and it has 67, which isn't large at all.[/quote]
anyway, i sent of a query to the lmarbles website to see what they think. But I suspect that it's the case that the scanner, when it can't see inside the archive, plays it safe & declares it noxious. Although I just extracted the archive, to see how many discrete files it contained, and it has 67, which isn't large at all.[/quote]
an archive bomb is an email attachment that deliberately is created so that when it is decompressed it decompresses to a very large size ... the idea is to crash the antivirus program running on an email server by causing it to try to allocate more ram than is available
there are some compressed swap files and compressed pup_save files available on some Puppy servers ... for example, http://dotpups.de/files/pup001-differen ... 1MB.gz.zip is an empty 500k pup_save file that will expand to 3 gigs when uncompressed ... if you sent this as an email attachment and if an antivirus program on an email server tried to decompress it to look inside it, the antivirus program would need 3 gigs of free ram to examine the contents of the file
the lmarbles package would be considered an archive bomb by f-prot if it will expand more than a certain amount when decompressed
there are some compressed swap files and compressed pup_save files available on some Puppy servers ... for example, http://dotpups.de/files/pup001-differen ... 1MB.gz.zip is an empty 500k pup_save file that will expand to 3 gigs when uncompressed ... if you sent this as an email attachment and if an antivirus program on an email server tried to decompress it to look inside it, the antivirus program would need 3 gigs of free ram to examine the contents of the file
the lmarbles package would be considered an archive bomb by f-prot if it will expand more than a certain amount when decompressed