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x4war - An X11 version of Chinese four-state war game.
WHAT IS IT?
This is a board game which implements the Chinese four-state war game in the
X Window environment. It allows four players to play the game on four displays,
each coordinating a complete army, players at the opposite position of the
playing board are allied. The goal of the game is to capture the COLOURS of
the enemy.
I heard it's sort of like the American game 'stratego'.
COMPILING
The program is implemented using Xlib and Xt. It should be compilable in
most of X11/R4 environment. Presently the program is tested only under
SunOS 4.1.1 and IRIX 4.0.1 System V.
A Makefile.simple is supplied. Just following the steps below:
%make -f Makefile.simple bgbitmap
to get 'bgbitmap' for creating the background of the board.
%bgbitmap
wait for a second and a background bitmap file called
'war_background.xbm' will be created in the bitmaps
subdirectory.
%make -f Makefile.simple
this will get you the 'x4war' executable.
An Imakefile is also included. If you use this file, you can type 'xmkmf' to
get a Makefile, then use the above command with '-f Makefile.simple' omitted.
The file 'x4war' is enough for the game. Other files can be removed after you
get the 'x4war' file.
USAGE
Type 'x4war -usage' to get command options.
For the meaning of the nodes and rules of the game, please consult one who can
read Chinese characters and knows the conventional rules. Also read x4war.man
for detail.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Special thanks to Zhongmin Guo, Bo Wang, Ju Wu, and Danpo Zhang, who created
most of the bitmaps and had given many valuable suggestions. And many thanks
to my fellow students at School of Computing Science and Engineering Science,
Simon Fraser University, who had helped to test the program and given all
kinds of support.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1992 by Xiaobing Chen
Permission to use, copy, and distribute for non-commercial purposes,
is hereby granted without fee, providing that the above copyright
notice appear in all copies and that both the copyright notice and this
permission notice appear in supporting documentation.
The software may be modified for your own purposes, but modified versions
may not be distributed without prior consent of the the author.
This software is provided "as is" without any expressed or implied warranty.
The author may be contacted via:
Address: Xiaobing Chen
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C., V5A 1S6
Canada
EMail: xiaobing@cs.sfu.ca