Copyright (c) 1987 Bart Massey
TTT is an X11 tic-tac-toe program I wrote in 1987 in C. It is every bit as beautiful today.
TTT was apparently originally textual; I clearly later added a GUI with Motif widgets. The early development history is long lost.
Looking at the resource converter for text to pixmaps reminded me of how painful programming GUI apps in C with Motif widgets was. Thank goodness things are all better now. Or not.
I dug this code out a while back to add the momentarily-interesting option of misère play, following a discussion with Josh Triplett.
The interesting feature when TTT was written was its "play-level" randomization, which tried to give an interesting but winnable game at low level settings.
This program depends on
Open Motif (Debian
package libmotif-dev) or
LessTif. To compile,
you'll need imake installed (Debian package xutils-dev):
run xmkmf to generate a Makefile. The Debian version of
imake may yield warnings about "use _DEFAULT instead":
there is a
patch
for this in progress, and the warnings can be safely
ignored.
To run this, you'll need to install the "resources" used by the UI. You can
xrdb -merge TTT-fallback.ad
xrdb -merge TTT-bonus.ad
or you can make install (with appropriate permissions).
OK, neither of things will ever be done, but I was clearly thinking of them at one point.
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Improve resource handling so that the program falls back to text if the bitmap graphics are unavailable.
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Embed fallback bitmap graphics in the program, or failing that at least graphics resources.
This program is licensed under the "MIT License". Please see
the file COPYING in this distribution for license terms.