The HangIt Project
- Description
- Downloads
- Further Documentation
- Features
- License
- Installation
- History
- Future
- Bugs
- Thanks
- Contact Info
- Author's Personal Recommendations
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
Go to the download
section of the project page to find the newest releases.
To view the current source, check out the CVS
repository.
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.
*NEW*: Ability to choose between several different drawings to use
during the game! We currently have a man, Tux the penguin, Bill
Gate$, and a man from SCO (in honor of the recent lawsuit).
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.
Future
At this point, I am almost able to declare independence
from the previous Python code, which will result in a v1.0.0
release. The 'TODO' file will explain the remaining tasks.
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.
Thanks
See the 'THANKS' file for outpourings of gratitude.
Contact Info
Michael Olson: e-mail
-- bigmike160 at yahoo.com
See 'AUTHORS' for the rest of them.
Author's Personal
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