GNU Shogi Manual

Copyright (c) 1993, 1994 Kazuhiko Seki ============= 0. Preface ============= This software is a Macintosh version of GNU SHOGI 1.1 patch level 02 on UNIX. GNU SHOGI provide a game of Shogi, Japanese chess. Original version is written by Matthias Mutz. I added Mac graphical user interface to this. ================= 1. What You Need ================= Hardware: All Macintosh which have MC68020 or higher CPU (I recommend MC68030 25MHz or higher) You can play on both black-white and color Mac. In case of color machine, please set color depth to 8 (256 colors) or lower. And don't change this while you play this program. Software: System 6.0.7 or later GNU SHOGI needs 1.2 MBytes RAM for itself ========== 2. Install ========== About 600KBytes disk space is needed to install this software. You can't change file or folder names. Please keep following layout. - 1 - Sorry, above file name of Teach-Text document means "GNU SHOGI Manual". It's Japanese. If you change name or move file, GNU SHOGI will not run. ============== 3. How To Run ============== Double click bellow icon to run GNU SHOGI. You can save game. Game file is following icon. You also run program by double click this icon. ========= 4. Files ========= Book file: A set of opening game Data file: Program read this file as data Preference file: Program save setting information to this file - 2 - ========= 5. Game ========= Kind of piece: - 3 - Start game: When you run this program you'll see "About" window. Please click this to start game. By default Mac is white and you are black. If you need to change the side, choose "Mac is black" from Game menu. In play: This document don't tell you how to play Shogi. If you aren't familiar with the rule of Shogi please see "shogi.rules" in docs folder. Darg a piece you want to move like you do on Finder. If you moved the piece to wrong place, select menu "Undo Move" from "Game". Stop computer's thinking: Press both "Command Key" and "Period(.)" at the same time. Game setting: When you choose "Game Settings" menu you'll see the window as following: - 4 - "Use book file" check box decides which you use opeing book or not. "Use Sound" decides you use sound effect or not. "Max depth" means depth of computer's thinking. When you change this to 3~4 you'll find faster thinking after middle game. ======== 6. Misc ======== You can copy this software for you or someone else. Please see "COPYING" file in "docs" folder. If you found a bug or you have a comment pelase send me a e-mail. Destination are: pbc02746@niftyserve.or.jp seki@mcg.nml.mot.com PBC02746 (Nifty-Serve, When you can access this BBS) I hope you to enjoy Shogi game! - 5 -