GNU shogi news -------------- Changes in version 1.5.0 (unreleased): * XBoard protocol support, enabling the use of XBoard as a graphical interface, officially deprecating XShogi. * Build system switched from pure autoconf to automake * Support for cross-compilation using standard "./configure --host=...", including building windows binaries (both 32bit and 64bit) using the gcc-mingw toolchain Changes in version 1.4.2 (02/2014): * XShogi is no longer included in the GNU Shogi source, it is available as a separate source archive. * Fixes for edit mode: - fixed clobbering of board on invalid input - display a message on wrong input * Fixed Curses mode display: - reversed column number for MiniShogi - clock and captures position for MiniShogi - refresh display after "switch" to get player names updated - layout fixes, notably when using only 80 columns * Minor code cleanups. Changes in version 1.4.1 (01/2014): * Initial support for the MiniShogi variant, for now as a separate executable built using "./configure --enable-minishogi". * Support for building without the curses UI. * Preliminary win32 support: can be built on cygwin with gcc3, in the win32 directory. * Build system enhancements. * Bug fixes. Changes in version 1.4.0 (03/2012): * Main change is the license switch to GPL3. * Project is now being maintained on a git repository. * Bug fixes. Changes in version 1.3.2 (07/2004): * configure.in has been renamed to configure.ac * A number of small fixes were added to make the program compile and run correctly on modern Linuxes. Changes in version 1.3.1 (07/2001): * New piece bitmaps for both westernized and Japanese piece sets, courtesy of Bernhard Maerz. Changes in version 1.3 (07/1999): * xshogi has been merged into the gnushogi source tree and build process. * gnushogi is now only one executable, instead of three (one each for the raw text interface, the xshogi interface, and the curses interface). The three interfaces are still there; you select between them using a command-line option: "gnushogi -C" for the curses interface, "gnushogi -R" for the raw text interface, and "gnushogi -X" or just "gnushogi" for the xshogi interface. Making the xshogi interface the default makes it easier for xshogi to invoke gnushogi (translation: I couldn't be bothered figuring out why this was the case, so I just left it that way). * The gnushogi and xshogi source code has been thoroughly cleaned up and ANSIfied. Several files have been renamed. Makefiles have also been cleaned up considerably, but you don't need to care about this, because... * Building GNU shogi and xshogi now uses a configure script generated by autoconf. This should increase portability and make compilation much easier. * There is now fairly extensive documentation in texinfo form, which has been used to generate info, postscript, and html versions of the documentation. The man page is included in the texinfo file. The (separate) man pages have been updated to deal with the new command-line options for gnushogi. This file starts with GNU Shogi 1.3 (07/01/1999).