PalmXQ

A Human vs Computer XiangQi (Chinese Chess)  program that run on Palm device

Description

PalmXQ is a human vs computer XiangQi (Chinese Chess) program that run on Palm device. The below are the features of PalmXQ:

• 3 different computer play strength for users to choose for.

• Time control computer play.

• Setup board for end game analysis.

• Undo and Redo previous move.

• Save and Open game.

Licesnse

PalmXQ is distributed under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Hardware Requirement

Unknown. This is because i had only tested this program under IBM workpad emulator with the following configuration

ROM file : palmos3.5 ROM image file

Device : PalmVx

Skin : Generic

RAM size : 8192k bytes

Operating System Requirement

Palm OS 3.0 or above

Development tools

I developed this software under Windows98 with development tools

cygwin-b20.1-full - provides Unix liked environment under WIN32

pilrc_w32 - resource script compiler

prc-tools-2.0 - contains GNU c compiler and linker for m68k processor

sdk35-prc - Palm OS software development kit

PilrcEdit - resource script editor

p/s all the above development tools can be obtained from IBM developer web site.

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FAQ

The PalmXQ engine is weak?

Try to adjust the max time per move to higher value.

Credits

The below are the contributors during my development work. I would like to express my thankfulness to

Mr. Wong Chee Onn - who provided me the IBM workpad and guideline during my development work.

Ms.Tan Mei Kee - who provided all the necessary PC equipments.

Mr. Pham Hong Nguyen - who created all the graphics files for me.

Keith Evans - who did the beta testing on his real Palm device.

Simon Henke - who did the beta testing on his real Palm device.

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Author

Author can be contacted through yccheok@yahoo.com

Last revision : 09 March,  2002