BattleBoat v.1.6

I wrote this game in high school. It started as just me playing around with unbuffered input ala conio.h (obviously Windows only; I have a Linux port lying around somewhere though), but after I got bored with just moving a cursor around the screen, I decided to make a rendition of the classic Battleship game.

I wrote this well before I had a grasp on what header files were for, how to use pointers, or really anything beyond the most basic of basics.

Some things to note: in order to pass my 10x10 2-D arrays used for the radar/map things, I specified char (&map)[10][10] in the function definitions which I'm pretty sure is just a fancy way of doing char **map. To be honest, at the time I wrote this, I had no idea what I was doing. I just started slamming some characters around until I got the compiler to stop complaining at me.

This program loads first reading an ".ascii-art" file that contains ascii art of the name of the program (BattleBoat). If this file ends with a newline (???) or does not exist, the program will still load, but it may print the error it received and/or the title screen may display improperly.

Use the arrow keys to control the cursor.
Spacebar selects a space.
Hit 'Ctrl + H', 'BACKSPACE', or 'F1' for the help screen.
Hit 'Ctrl + Q' or 'ESC' to quit.

This version of Battleboat was created on a Windows XP OS and is known to work on it. I have plans to test and release a *Nix version as well as a FreeBSD version.

I also included a header file (bbWin32.h) that includes windows.h to change console text color and clear the screen.

This version now has a separate header file for all programmer defined functions that are used in the game. This header file is called "bbFunctions.h".

I have made it so that the program reads in two .map files named playerA.map and playerB.map that are located in the executable's current directory. The .map files must have the following characters to make the game read correctly (it will fail loading and report errors if it finds anything other than the following):

5   C (uppercase)
4   B (uppercase)
3   S (uppercase)
3   c (lowercase)
2   p (lowercase)
83  ,

in other words, 100 characters (not counting whitespace) with a Carrier, a Battleship, a Submarine, a Cruiser, and a Patrol Boat, and all of the blank areas of water.

MUST HAVE CORRECT CAPITALIZATION AS WELL. This is important as there are two C characters (this will change as I am an idiot for doing it that way).

Each .map file is a set of characters; 10 lines with 10 characters each, e.g.:

C C C C C , , , , ,
, , , , , B , , , ,
, , , , , B , , , ,
, S S S , B , , , ,
, , , , , B , , , ,
, , , , , , , , , ,
, c c c , , , , , ,
, , , , , , , , , ,
, , , , , , , p p ,
, , , , , , , , , ,

Then save the map as playerA.map or playerB.map (depending on who the map is for).