README
1Welcome to Gomoku.app !
2
3WHAT IS IT
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5
6Gomoku.app is an extended TicTacToe game for GNUstep. You win the
7game if you are able to put 5 of your pieces in a row, column or
8diagonal. You lose if the computer does it before you.
9
10Most of the development effort was concentrated on the artificial
11intelligence engine used by the computer while playing. Unlike most
12other engines, this engine is not designed to play very well, but
13rather to give you fun when you play against it.
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15COPYING
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18This program is free sofware, released under GNU GPL 2.0.
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20COMPILING
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23Please check the 'INSTALL' file to build the game on GNUstep, and the
24'INSTALL.OSX' file to build the game on Apple/Mac OS X.
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26RUNNING THE PROGRAM IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE
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28
29The program has been translated into the following languages:
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31 English
32 Italian (by Nicola Pero <nicola.pero@meta-innovation.com>)
33 French (by Emmanuel Maillard <e.rsz@libertysurf.fr>)
34 Swedish (by Erik Dalen <dalen@jpl.nu>)
35 Spanish (by Rodrigo Sancho Senosiain <ruysan@wanadoo.es>)
36 German (by Matthias Zoellner <matthias.zoellner@fen-net.de>)
37 Traditional Chinese (by Yen-Ju Chen <yjchenx@hotmail.com>)
38 Hungarian (by Varga Peter <debbug123@freemail.hu>)
39 Norwegian (by Per Christian Gaustad <svele@netcom.no>)
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41Under GNUstep, to run Gomoku.app in your preferite language, for
42example Italian, set your GNUstep preferences to use that language by
43giving the following command at the shell prompt:
44
45defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSLanguages "(Italian)"
46
47To translate it into another language, just take the
48English.lproj/Localizable.strings, translate each string into your
49language (look at Italian.lproj/Localizable.strings for an example),
50put everything into a new YourLanguage.lproj/Localizable.strings. Add
51your language to the GNUmakefile. Ah - and don't forget to send the
52result of your work to nicola.pero@meta-innovation.com so it can be
53included in the next release !
54
55BOARDS OF DIFFERENT SIZES
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57
58If you get bored with the standard board, you can play the game on
59boards of different size; the default size is 8 but 10 is also nice to
60play. Pass the size of the board as argument of Gomoku.app. For
61example, to play on a 10x10 board, you can start Gomoku with:
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63openapp ./Gomoku.app 10
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65Warning: board size must be >= 8.
66
67BUGS
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69
70Please mail them to <nicola.pero@meta-innovation.com>
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72HOMEPAGE
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75http://www.gnustep.it/nicola/Applications/Gomoku/
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77THANKS
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79
80To David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>, for providing support for
81boards of arbitrary sizes.
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