Short: Very old Asian board game Architecture: m68k-amigaos NoGo 1.0 ======== (Magritte's greeting) (c) 1997 by Andreas Schmitz FREEWARE 0. Introduction --------------- Go is a very old Asian board game. Although the rules are very simple, the game can be very interesting and difficult. Of course Go is most enjoyable when played against a human opponent. But finding a playing partner is sometimes difficult, so I started searching a computer program playing Go. I found AmiGo, GNUGo and Wally from which the last was supposed to be the strongest. Unfortunately it had no GUI and was not much fun to play. So I started writing a MUI-GUI. I have to say that Wally is still a very weak player and games are only interesting if you give him handicap stones. 1. Requirements --------------- NoGo should run on any Amiga with MUI installed. 2. Usage -------- Starting the game from Workbench or Shell should be straight forward :-) The meaning of the menu items should also be clear, but a few notes have to be made: o Wally always begins the game (to get a little advantage) o Handicap stones are only possible on 9x9, 13x13 and 19x19 boards o Wally is much better on smaller boards o At the end of the game you will be asked to remove dead stones and fill the neutral points (the computer trusts you, so don't cheat here) 3. Author --------- For ANY suggestions, bug-reports or whatever-you-can-think-of's please feel free to knock at my door (you're welcome). Especially if you are interested in a future development. o email: otter@chessy.aworld.de (home) schmitz@theorie.physik.uni-wuppertal.de (at work) o homepage: http://wptu38.physik.uni-wuppertal.de/Chaos/schmitz o my address: Andreas Schmitz Lenneper Strasse 44a 51688 Wipperfuerth Germoney :) 4. Future --------- o GNUGo is much better structured than Wally and I think about giving GNUGo 1.2 the same MUI-GUI. Including the source code will be more likely then. o Of course it would be nice if the program would be a stronger player. 7. Thanks to ------------ o Bill Newman (newman@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU) for the original wally.c whom I was unable to reach. o Stefan Stuntz for MUI, which makes programming a lot easier. o SAS for still supporting the Amiga