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Mine Hunt

MineHunt

  • Year
    1992
  • Strategy
    Flag Mines AND Clear Mines
  • Platform
    RISC OS || 3.10
    RISC OS || 3.50
    RISC OS || Iyonix

Mine Hunt - Game Overview

MineHunt was written for RISC OS 3 in 1992 by Paul LeBeau.

The game was inspired by the release of Minesweeper in Windows 3.1. It uses the same three levels (8x8 with 10 mines, 16x16 with 40 mines, 30x16 with 99 mines) but adds two new levels called Better (16x8 with 20 mines) and Good (24x16 with 60 mines). You can use flags and questionmarks while chording is performed by pressing [SHIFT] while clicking the left mouse button. His others changes were starting the timer from 0 (instead of 1) and being able to lose on the first click. It also saves your best 5 scores per level.

One interesting feature of the game is spoken messages. There are several messages in a New Zealand accent, ranging from "You realise if it was a real mine, you'd be just a squidgy mess on the floor by now" for losing, to "Ooh, look at that, you actually did it!" if you win. Earlier releases used quotes from "Bill'n'Ted's Excellent Adventure" but these were removed for copyright reasons.

MineHunt is the first known version for RISC OS. The first public version was 1.04 in December 1992 with version 1.10 being included in RISC OS 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 and 3.71 as part of the operating system from 1994-1998. Paul separately released versions 1.11 and 1.12 before making 1.13 open source and donating the code to riscosopen.org in November 2011. The Iyonix community continued updating the game to work on RISC OS 5 32-bit architecture with the current release being 1.18 in 2013.

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Version History

A list of all known versions sorted by platform then version. Email admin@ if you have more! See the Downloads section for available files.

RISC OS1.04First public release.
RISC OS1.06Questionmarks can be de-activated and LED colours can be changed.
RISC OS1.07Restored highscores menu accidentally deleted in 1.06.
RISC OS1.08Replaced sounds and made windows NewLook compatible.
RISC OS1.10Included in RISC OS 3.50 to 3.71 with some changes to enable German characters.
RISC OS1.11Option to have safe corners and to chord using the Adjust (right) button.
RISC OS1.12Added support for higher resolution images.
RISC OS1.13Open source release under the Simplified BSD License (FreeBSD).
RISC OS1.14Added FreeBSD licence.
RISC OS1.15Updated 26 bit files to 32 bit files to work on Iyonix.
RISC OS1.16Removed unecessary makefiles.
RISC OS1.17Minor update to graphics.
RISC OS1.18Updated dependencies.

Pictures

Screenshots are sorted by platform then version.


Mine Hunt 1.06 - Win box
Mine Hunt 1.06 - Won Intermediate game
Mine Hunt 1.06 - Menu
Mine Hunt 1.06 - Lost game
Mine Hunt 1.06 - Highscores
Mine Hunt 1.06 - About box
Mine Hunt 1.10 - Win box
Mine Hunt 1.10 - Menu
Mine Hunt 1.10 - Lost Expert game
Mine Hunt 1.10 - Highscores
Mine Hunt 1.10 - About box
Mine Hunt 1.18 - About box
Mine Hunt 1.18 - Highscores
Mine Hunt 1.18 - Lost game

Downloads

Versions are listed by platform, version, year, earliest known date and source of the date information.

RISC OS1.041992Copyright
RISC OS1.0619921992-12-20Timestamp
ZIPEnglish
RISC OS1.071993
RISC OS1.08199x
RISC OS1.1019941994-05-11Magazine
ZIPEnglish
RISC OS1.11199x
RISC OS1.1219951995-03-01Documentation
RISC OS1.1320112011-11-18Documentation
RISC OS1.1420112011-11-18Documentation
RISC OS1.1520112011-11-18Documentation
ZIPCode ✓C
RISC OS1.1620122012-02-05Documentation
ZIPCode ✓C
RISC OS1.1720122012-07-01Documentation
ZIPCode ✓C
RISC OS1.1820132013-07-15Documentation
ZIPEnglish
ZIPCode ✓C

Credits

People and companies are listed by platform, version, name, role and source of the information.

RISC OS1.04
Paul LeBeauByDocumentation
RISC OS1.06
Paul LeBeauByDocumentation
Paul LeBeauAuthorAbout box
RISC OS1.07
Paul LeBeauByDocumentation
RISC OS1.08
Paul LeBeauByDocumentation
RISC OS1.10
Paul LeBeauByDocumentation
Paul LeBeauAuthorAbout box
RISC OS1.11
Paul LeBeauByDocumentation
RISC OS1.12
Paul LeBeauByDocumentation
RISC OS1.13
Paul LeBeauByDocumentation
RISC OS1.14
Paul LeBeauSource codeWebsite
Robert SprowsonCode commitWebsite
RISC OS1.15
Paul LeBeauSource codeWebsite
Robert SprowsonCode commitWebsite
RISC OS1.16
Paul LeBeauSource codeWebsite
Robert SprowsonCode commitWebsite
RISC OS1.17
Paul LeBeauSource codeWebsite
Robert SprowsonCode commitWebsite
RISC OS1.18
Paul LeBeauSource codeWebsite
Robert SprowsonCode commitWebsite

Game Links

Dead sites are often available at archive.org.

  • https://www.riscosopen.org/viewer/view/apache/RiscOS/Sources/Apps/Diversions/MineHunt/
    Source code for 1.13 with minor updates 0.01 and 0.02 to work with RISC OS 4.

  • https://www.riscosopen.org/RiscOS/Sources/Apps/Diversions/MineHunt
    Source code for versions 1.14 to 1.18 for 32 bit Iyonix machines.

  • https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.acorn.games/c/0rgx9i4ifHc/m/uLJiyiR2LuMJhttps://
    On 19 Mar 1998 LeBeau posted a cheat for the game.

  • http://www.acornusers.org/riscos4/Acorn.html
    Site mentions 1.08 and says it is not published by Acorn.


Entity Links

Dead sites are often available at archive.org.

  • stackoverflow.com/users/1292848/paul-lebeau

  • twitter.com/paullebeau