Parchis 4.1. Copyright (C) 1992-2017, Mariano Alvarez Fernandez

1. LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program (copying file); if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

The lucb27.fnt and lucb40b.fnt font files can be freely distributed under
the MIT license (copying.mit file).
The gamo08b.fnt font file is in the public domain.


2. HOW TO COMPILE

Parchís 4.1 needs the graphics library MGRX v1.1 (mgrx.fgrim.com) previously
installed. It can be compiled for 4 plarforms:

 -DOS with the DJGPP compiler: make -f makefile.dj2
 -Windows with the Mingw compiler: make -f makefile.w32
 -linux X11: make -f makefile.x11
 -linux framebuffer: make -f makefile.lnx

Note. At the moment, sound is not available in Windows

The process make a compact executable with the fonts and images inluded. This
is because the makecbinfiles.sh script creates the "c" files from the binaries.
It is not necsary to run the script, the "c" files are alrady created in the
distribution. The script uses the bin2c and fnt2c programs from MGRX.


3. INSTALATION

Is not necesary to install, simply put the executable where do yo want and
run it. But for the linux-X11 version, a .desktop file and a icon file are 
included to integrate Parchis int the System menu. Do that with root:

cp parchis /usr/local/bin
cp parchis.desktop /usr/share/applications
cd parchis.png /use/share/pixmaps

and Parchís will be integrated magically in the System menu,
in Games -> Board games.


4. HOW TO USE PARCHIS

When Parchis starts you must choose the language: spanish or english. After
you must choose the players, in any combination of people and computer. The
game began, I think it's very simple to play. You can press F1 to get help,
but sorry, I don't have translated the help yet (my english is very poor,
can you do it for me?).

To exit press "Escape" or click the "Exit" button whit the mouse.


5. HOW TO CONTACT THE AUTOR

You can contact me at

malfer at telefonica.net

