*** XTIC version 1.12 - 18th june 1995 *** Description: ------------ Xtic is a board game designed for the X windows environment. The game is a two-player game, although for the moment,it is only possible to play against the computer. The board is composed of 4x4 squares and 16 pieces. Each piece has four properties: black or brown, horizontal or vertical, solid or hollow, round or square. This makes up 16 possible combinations and there is exactly one piece for each possibility. Initially the board is empty. Now the two players try to place out pieces in a way that the opponent has to complete a row, column or diagonal with a common property (e.g. all black). This makes the opponent lose. The players do not choose what piece to put but it is rather player 1 who gives a piece to player 2, who then has to place this piece somewhere and choose a piece for player 1 to put somewhere etc. The rules are really very simple - believe me! In any case, there is a more extensive description of the rules in the manual file xtic1.12/src/xtic.man in the distribution directory. To read the manual without installing it, try nroff -man xtic.man Requirements: ------------- To install and play the game you need: 1) The XPM library, installed at a reasonable place. If you don't have it you can get it at many anonymous ftp sites. 2) A Color X display and the MIT X11 Server. X11R5 and X11R6 should work. 3) xmkmf/imake correctly installed and in your path. Where to get it: --------------- Xtic resides in ftp.x.org in the /contrib/games directory. You'd better get it at one of the numerous mirror sites, though. Alternatively, you could check out my URL http://www.math.kth.se/~mjo Which is the latest version: ---------------------------- Xtic1.12 (as of 18th June 1995) Platforms: ---------- Xtic has been tested on a number of platforms, including SUN SparcStation 5 with SUNOS 4.1.3 Pentium PC with Linux 1.1.59 I have tried to design the program and the installation files in a machine-independent way. This, however, does not necessarily mean that the program will compile everywhere at once :-(. Installation: ------------- First you have to unpack the software. The distribution comes in two files: xtic1.12.tar.gz - GNU gzipped tar file. Unpack/-tar with: zcat xtic1.12.tar.gz | tar xfv - xtic1.12.README - This file. After untarring you will get a directory called xtic1.12 containing all the relevant files. Now begin the installation and start by reading the file INSTALL. Hopefully everything works out fine :-) Usage: ----- If the installation works out fine you can just start the game by entering "xtic" if you have the appropriate directory (e.g. /usr/local/X11/bin) in your path. Otherwise, step into the directory xtic1.12/src and type "xtic". There is the usual hassle with the X11 colormap, unless you have much more than 256 colors. You may notice this if you are running e.g. netscape. Thanks: ------------ I want to thank Karl-Johan Johnsson for helping me with the Xt/Xaw-programming and everyone responsible for excellent libraries such as XPM. Comments etc.: -------------- Any suggestions, bug reports, complaints etc. should be sent to mjo@math.kth.se. Feedback is appreciated! Anyone wanting to compensate the author for the amount of spare time wasted on this project are welcome to send a check of 20 USD to the address below. Mattias Jonsson Dept.of Mathematics Royal Institute of Technology S-100 44 Stockholm Sweden Email: mjo@math.kth.se URL: http://www.math.kth.se/~mjo
