XQUINTO(l) XQUINTO(l)
1 Apr. 1992
NAME
xquinto - color all the squares: game.
SYNOPSIS
xquinto [size-options]
DESCRIPTION
xquinto has a rectangular (default, 5 by 5) board with squares on it.
Clicking on any square reverses its color, and that of its neighbors
that share an edge (not the diagonal ones). The object is, starting
with a board in one color, to reach a board of the reversed color.
There are two versions of the game: one using X11 and the other using
XView.
The size of the game, etc. can be changed using command line options:
-width n
Board is n squares wide (default 5).
-height m
Board is m squares high (default 5).
-square n
Board is n by n, square.
-showmove
Specifying this option will put a small 'o' on all the squares
the player has clicked so far.
-mono
To play on a monochrome monitor.
-colorN color
where N is 1, 2, or 3, for the color of the squares in the normal
and reversed form, and of the 'o' used to mark moves (defaults:
red, blue and yellow).
Keyboard commands useful for the X11 version are:
m magnify size of board by 1 unit (maximum 20 by 20).
s shrink size of board by 1 unit.
h, H decrease (increase) height of board by 1 unit.
w, W decrease (increase) width of board by 1 unit.
q quit the game.
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XQUINTO(l) XQUINTO(l)
1 Apr. 1992
c clear all moves, restart the game.
Resources that can be used for the X11 version in the .Xdefaults file are:
xquinto.colorN
where N is 1, 2, or 3, for the color of the squares in the normal
and reversed form, and of the 'o' used to mark moves.
xquinto.mono (default: false)
xquinto.showmove (default: false)
NOTES
The 5 by 5 (default) case can be solved. The idea for the game came
from a similar one I saw on a NeXT machine.
BUGS
The program has only been tested on a SunIPC with SunOS 4.1.1. But it
seems to work.
AUTHOR
Dev Joneja, Columbia Business School, April 1992
dj7@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu
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