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A Masterball Widget
Web: http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/puzzles.html
Download: Primary site: ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/tux/bagleyd/xpuzzles
Secondary site: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/games/strategy
Maintainer: David A. Bagley <bagleyd@tux.org>
You may need to install one of these to build Motif version:
sudo apt-get install libmotif-dev
sudo apt-get install lesstif2-dev
Then should be a simple
configure; make
The control feature allows you to move the whole masterball at
once without being entered as a move. Hold down the control key
while using the left mouse button or the keypad.
One has to orient the wedges in orient mode, besides getting all the
wedges to be the same color. To do this one has to get the wedges
with the numbers on one side and in order (clockwise). This will add
complexity, so there are 2 sets of records.
Try resizing the puzzle. Notice the puzzle resizes to take advantage of
the "room" available.
Try editing the file Mball.ad to get a certain feature and then copying
to $(HOME)/Mball (where Mball is the file name) and running xmball
again. There is also a Windows port (wmball).
The title is in the following format (non-motif version):
xmball.{2|4|6|8|10|12}: <int> @ (<Number of moves>/\
{<Record number of moves>|NEVER|PRACTICE}) - <Comment>
{2|4|6|8|10|12}: current number of wedges.
<int>: number of sectors per wedge.
{<Record...}: puzzle is either in practice mode or record mode
In record mode, if there is no record of the current puzzle, it
displays "NEVER".
If you were looking for a auto-solver, sorry. One of the problems in
auto-solvers the generally don't work for different number of cuts.
If you know of one let me know.
I know the look is not exactly right. For simplicity, I did not take
into account spherical placement of the latitude cuts.
Refer to the man page for detailed command line options.
If you want further information on puzzles, I'll be glad :-) to send
it to you.
FOUND A BUG?
Send bugs reports and fixes to the author. For bugs, please include
as much information as to their location as possible, since I may not
be able to duplicate the them.
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