This is a multi-player hearts game which uses sockets for
communication. The client programs support curses, X/Motif, and
X/Xaw. The present distribution requires imake to build.
I picked up hearts from the net three or four years ago. This
package included the basic guts with a curses interface. The original
README contents follows.
After I picked it up I modified the computer play strategy,
presumably for the better. I also made the Jack of Diamonds worth -10
since that's the way I like to play.
Not until now did I finally write the X clients (xmhearts,
xawhearts). The Xaw client is a quick translation of the Motif
version, so it's not as great.
To install:
1. Change the appropriate definitions in local.h to indicate
where the dealer and distributor binaries live. Also, if
you're building with X11R4 instead of X11R5, #define X11R4
so that xawclient.c uses the proper enum names.
2. If you don't have Motif, edit Imakefile so that NO_MOTIF
is defined.
3. Build the Makefile using imake or xmkmf.
4. "make"
5. Put heartsd, hearts_dist, and hearts.instr in the HEARTSLIB
directory defined in local.h and make them world-accessible.
6. Put the clients (hearts, xmhearts, xawhearts) in the
appropriate directory (e.g. /usr/bin/X11 or /usr/local/bin).
If you get "Can't open a dealer port!" or "Distributor port in
use!" error messages when you run one of the clients, adjust PORT and
DIST_PORT in local.h so that they refer to free ports.
Mike Yang
mikey@sgi.com
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This is the initial release of multi-player hearts. Hearts is just
another brain-damaged card game. This version supports multiple players
across a network (hopefully) and also multiple games. Users can select
which game to join via a hearts distributor menu that shows games in
progress and their current status.
Hearts has been tested on a 4.3 BSD system and on a 4.1 BSD-based
perversion of Unix. Unfortunately, it has not been tested across a network
due to lack of access to such an arrangement. Oh, well... I'm sure I'll
hear about it if it doesn't work.
In a future release I plan to rewrite the computer strategy and add a
high score list option to the menu. Not too sure what the form of the high
score list will take; perhaps top 10 averages for a given period or something.
I'm open to suggestions on that.
I'm releasing this version now, to get any bug reports out of the way
before I release the next version, and because I'm not sure when I'll get
around to implementing the above-mentioned mods. I imagine it will partly
be up to the response I receive from this version.
Send gripes, bug-fixes, amazing stories, etc. to:
Bob Ankeney
...!tektronix!reed!bob
