XScrabble - X version of the popular board game, for 1 to 4 players.

Preparation: First edit the top of the 'build' script to adapt the installation directories according to your needs.

To build:

./build bin

There are two directories of source code. The first to be built is part of Xc, the Control Panel Widget Set, v 1.3, copyright 1992 by Paul D. Johnston. The second is the main XScrabble code. This also contains the BarGraf widget from the Free Widget Foundation.

If all goes well, you should have two executables, xscrab and xscrabble in the src/ directory.

To install:

        ./build install (installs binaries and main app-default file)
        ./build lang XX (for any of the languages you'd like to have)

Currently available packages (dictionaries, score and rules files) are English and French:

xscrabble_en.tgz
xscrabble_fr.tgz
These packages must be downloaded from our ftp server

ftp://ftp.ac-grenoble.fr/ge/educational_games (along with the main package xscrabble-2.xx.tgz, which only contains the source for binary programs)

The automatic installation only works if these packages are in the same subdirectory as the xscrabble-X.XX source directory from which you run the 'build' script. The language by default is the last language that has been installed (as usual, packages may actually be reinstalled several times without any trouble... reinstalling will just overwrite the previously installed files.)

Please provide the current maintainer (J.-P.Demailly) with additional languages you would build. This only requires to translate the app-default file and provide a suitable dictionary (and optionally, a rules file).

To clean everything:

./build clean

To run:

Simply type xscrabble. This will bring up the setup box which will allow you to enter the language, names and displays and other info for the game to wish to play. Then click on the Start Game button, (or Load Previous if you're restarting a game). The main program, xscrab, will then be automatically called with the appropriate options.

The game is saved after every turn (in "~/.xscrabble.save" of the person running it) and can be restarted by running xscrabble, entering exactly the same info, and hitting the Load Previous button.

Have fun!

Original author:
Matt Chapman.
E-mail: matt@belgarath.demon.co.uk (no longer csuoq@csv.warwick.ac.uk) Web page: http://www.belgarath.demon.co.uk/ Version 1.00: March 1997 (original version Nov 1994)

(Added in the release notes of version 1.00: This was a student project, and there are not likely to be any future releases.)

Current maintainer:
Jean-Pierre Demailly
E-mail: demailly@fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr Web page: http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~demailly/ Version 2.00: March 1998 (multilingual version) Version 2.10: July 2000 (bug fixes; improvements & automatic install)

FTP site:
ftp://ftp.ac-grenoble.fr/ge/educational_games