PW5 Kindle puzzle collection (HF)

[PigDan]

Originally Posted by PigDan

I'm excited to see what you talented coders can do with apps such as this. Thanks for the stuff y'all put out there to the community. This is neat. I do wish we could have some blog posts somewhere online in the future or maybe just an up-to-date forum post here that'll compile all the working apps for the current Kindle versions. Browsing these individual forum threads is a bit of a difficult task in terms of searching accessibility. I'm guessing that a lot of extensions won't work right now, from what I've seen so far? Well, at least we have one more here! And that's a pretty significant gap of time between updates, it's good to see people picking up the torch over a decade later. Running puzzles on an e-ink reader seems like something you'd do 15 years ago or so (and sometimes I guess the device manufacturers would actually include the Games on the device) when the tech was new but I wish it was the norm, I could play Scrabble on it or something, lol

Edit: I tested it and I can report that none of the games boot on the Kindle Oasis 3 (2019) model. If you need testers I can give it a shot. All I can say for now is that after selecting a game in the KUAL menu, it just goes straight to the Kindle home menu screen.

As I mentioned here, this app isn't booting on the 2 or so versions before the latest on the Kindle Oasis 10th Gen. Not sure I can personally do anything to troubleshoot.

[pwn]

Hi! Installed the games on my PW4 a little bit ago and I'm having the same problem. I can launch the games from kterm but it doesn't do anything but return to the home screen when trying to launch them from KUAL. Let me know if there's something I can do to help debug this.

[Neposeda]

To solve the problem with start puzzles by KUAL you just need to edit /puzzles/menu.json — simply change "action" fixed path /mnt/us/puzzles/<game_name> to ./<game_name>
Exmpl:

{
	"name": "Filling",
	"priority": 2,
	"action": "./filling",
	"status": false
}

...and voilá

[HenriHenry]

Thanks!
That works.
Attached the new menu.json (in zip since mobileread doesn't accept .json)

[usrx215]

I figured out the menu.json launches the games from /mnt/us/puzzles/ and not /mnt/us/extensions/puzzles/ and edited it, so to fix it just do a find and replace, and copy the edited files.

[kbarni]

Thanks for reporting this, I updated the original post.

[aero31aero]

Hi, is there any way to build this for my old KT2? Firmware 5.8.1 or so. I believe that's the lf type, so hf builds don't work on it.

[kbarni]

Try Graham Maine's original port of these games; link in OP.