README.bindist - Fri Mar 17 14:02:01 MET 2000 xcheckers lets you play checkers in an X Window against others over the internet and against the computer. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To run the application type: ./xcheckers or (to make use of a big screen) ./xcheckers -s big.xpm or (to have it look arcade) ./xcheckers -s stars.xpm or (to connect to icds) ./xcheckers -i and a checkerboard will be displayed, while simplech from this terminal will prompt you to enter a colour and a level; then you can move the pieces with the mouse. ------------------------------------------------------------------- When moving the binaries and pictures, make sure to move xcheckersrc to ~/.xcheckersrc and to correct the paths. To make connecting to icds the default add "xcheckers.icds: true" to your ~/.xcheckersrc. The manpage can tell you more about resources. Read the manpage like this: nroff -man xcheckers.man | more. You may have to set icds to display the board as style 5. From v1.3 on, xcheckers does this by itself, when encountering a board style 1. To run the engine on a different computer choose -icds -host some.host.net -port 23, log in to your shell account and start the engine; there may be some additional echo. To have the application called from a window manager menu or button, enter "rxvt -e xcheckers" as its command. ------------------------------------------------------------------- xcheckers is free software, for details see accompanying file COPYING. xcheckers is partly based on xics-2.3 bye Shirish Chinchalkar, Urban Koistinen, Nelson Minar and Patrick Surry. Courtesy of Martin Fierz, this contains simplech, a strong search engine. Check out the icds homepage: http://sonic.digital-web.net/~lionman/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- xcheckers homepage is at http://arton.cunst.net/xcheckers/ Send suggestions, bug reports and bug fixes to