1README.bindist - Fri Mar 17 14:02:01 MET 2000 2 3xcheckers lets you play checkers in an X Window against others over the 4internet and against the computer. 5 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 7 8To run the application type: 9 10 ./xcheckers 11or (to make use of a big screen) 12 ./xcheckers -s big.xpm 13or (to have it look arcade) 14 ./xcheckers -s stars.xpm 15or (to connect to icds) 16 ./xcheckers -i 17 18and a checkerboard will be displayed, while simplech from this terminal 19will prompt you to enter a colour and a level; then you can move the 20pieces with the mouse. 21 22 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 23 24When moving the binaries and pictures, make sure to move xcheckersrc to 25~/.xcheckersrc and to correct the paths. 26 27To make connecting to icds the default add "xcheckers.icds: true" to your 28~/.xcheckersrc. The manpage can tell you more about resources. Read the 29manpage like this: nroff -man xcheckers.man | more. 30 31You may have to set icds to display the board as style 5. From v1.3 on, 32xcheckers does this by itself, when encountering a board style 1. 33 34To run the engine on a different computer choose -icds -host some.host.net 35-port 23, log in to your shell account and start the engine; there may be 36some additional echo. 37 38To have the application called from a window manager menu or button, enter 39"rxvt -e xcheckers" as its command. 40 41 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 42 43xcheckers is free software, for details see accompanying file COPYING. 44xcheckers is partly based on xics-2.3 bye Shirish Chinchalkar, Urban 45Koistinen, Nelson Minar and Patrick Surry. Courtesy of Martin Fierz, this 46contains simplech, a strong search engine. Check out the icds homepage: 47http://sonic.digital-web.net/~lionman/ 48 49 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 50 51xcheckers homepage is at http://arton.cunst.net/xcheckers/ 52Send suggestions, bug reports and bug fixes to <pch(a)myzel.net> 53 54