XScrabble - X version of the popular board game, for 1 to 4 players.
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Preparation:
First edit the top of the 'build' script to adapt the installation
directories according to your needs.
To build:
./build bin
There are two directories of source code. The first to be built is part of
Xc, the Control Panel Widget Set, v 1.3, copyright 1992 by Paul D.
Johnston. The second is the main XScrabble code. This also contains the
BarGraf widget from the Free Widget Foundation.
If all goes well, you should have two executables, xscrab and xscrabble in
the src/ directory.
To install:
./build install (installs binaries and main app-default file)
./build lang XX (for any of the languages you'd like to have)
Currently available packages (dictionaries, score and rules files) are
English and French:
xscrabble_en.tgz
xscrabble_fr.tgz
The automatic installation only works if these packages are in the same
subdirectory as the xscrabble-X.XX.tgz source package. The language by
default is the language that has been installed last. Please provide
the current maintainer (J.-P.Demailly) with aditional languages you
would build. This oonly requires to translate the app-default file
and provide a suitable dictionary (and optionally, a rules file).
To clean everything:
./build clean
To run:
Simply type xscrabble. This will bring up the setup box which will allow
you to enter the language, names and displays and other info for the
game to wish to play. Then click on the Start Game button, (or Load
Previous if you're restarting a game). The main program, xscrab, will
then be automatically called with the appropriate options.
The game is saved after every turn (in "~/.xscrabble.save" of the
person running it) and can be restarted by running xscrabble, entering
exactly the same info, and hitting the Load Previous button.
This was a student project, and there are not likely to be any future
releases.
Have fun,
Original author:
Matt Chapman.
E-mail: matt@belgarath.demon.co.uk (no longer csuoq@csv.warwick.ac.uk)
Web page: http://www.belgarath.demon.co.uk/
Version 1.00: March 1997 (original version Nov 1994)
Current maintainer:
Jean-Pierre Demailly
E-mail: demailly@fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr
Web page: http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~demailly/
Version 2.00: March 1998 (multilingual version)
Version 2.10: July 2000 (bug fixes; improvements & automatic install)
