The HangIt Project

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DESCRIPTION

This program is a hangman game, based on that fun game that most of you have probably played on the chalkboard to kill time during school. It tries to recreate this simple environment by using white on black graphics and simple text based art. One of the goals of this project is portability, which means that it not only works with the best operating system ever made, Linux, but also with the ever popular dos/windows operating system.

DOWNLOADS

Last stable version (01-11-2001): v0.5.1

Last development version on the CVS tree (01-11-2001): v0.5.1

Go to the download section of the project page.

FURTHER DOCUMENTATION

Click on the Project documentation link at the top to find the documentation referred to by this web page. For example, 'THANKS' is located here.

FEATURES

Categorical lists of words, like 'Star Wars names'’ and different levels of difficulty.

1 Player or 2 Player mode (soon).

LICENSE

This program is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, see 'COPYING' for more info. Basically it means that you may use the program freely and copy freely, giving the same rights to those after you as I am giving you.

INSTALLATION

If you are concerned with building the code or installing the program from Linux, please see 'INSTALL'.

HISTORY

HangIt started its life as a simple hangman clone based primarily on a version of hangman made in the Python programming language by Sverre Nilsen. I (Mike Olson) ported it to C in order to fulfill a project requirement in my Programming 3 class in high school. A few students in the class have been helpful in looking at the code, but they had their own projects to look after. Happily, my programming teacher is allowing me to continue in the development of HangIt instead of having to turn in all this incomplete code. I am trying to 'do it right'’ by getting all the bugs sifted out, using 'Makefiles', and allowing for easy cross platform use.

See 'ChangeLog' for specific changes made to the source code.

'NEWS'’ contains changes that the user can appreciate.

BUGS

See 'BUGS' for user-visible bug list.

HOW CAN YOU CONTRIBUTE?

Developers

'TODO'’ is a list of current needs that this project has.

If you wish to support the HangIt project with source code:

E-mail me with a zip file, gz file, bz2 file, tar file, whatever. I usually check my e-mail about once every 2 or 3 days.

Add your name and e-mail address to the 'AUTHORS' file in your modified version's folder (if it's not there already).

Modify the 'THANKS' file in your folder to give a shout out to whoever you want.

Please describe the version that you downloaded to work on, so I know what to compare the changes against.

Please log your changes in the 'ChangeLog' file. This will also be a great help to me!

Users

Send in bug reports / beta test info if you desire to via e-mail.

THANKS GO OUT TO

See the 'THANKS' file for outpourings of gratitude.

CONTACT INFO

Maintainer

Michael Olson < bigmike160@yahoo.com >

See 'AUTHORS' for the rest of them.

New releases will appear at < http://sourceforge.net/projects/hangit >. This will be the place to find the latest version. A major version may make it to this page, but it is doubtful at the current time.

To view the current source, check out the CVS repository.

Why should software be free? Click here to view a document by the heralds of the free software movement.

Confused about life? I recommend theKristo .

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