cardwords, a linux card game
                                       
   In cardwords you get cards showing characters and points and try to
   lay them on the card-table, so that they form crosswords. See a
   [1]screenshot here (14kB).
   
   cardwords is customizable. As you can see from the [2]screenshot, I do
   not intend to use this game with english words myself, because english
   is not my native language and I am just too bad compared to the robots
   created by the game. I will rather use the game with german words and
   cards showing german characters such as Ä and ß.
   
   You can not only change the card set, character set and dictionary
   used, but also the card-table layout, the number of cards on
   everybody's hands, bonus and penalty points for certain actions.
   
   You can read the [3]README online, or download the the README as
   [4]html.tar.gz (16kB) or [5]ps.gz (30kB).
   
   Download the [6]cardwords source here (230kB) or from any sunsite
   mirror (it is in games/multiplayer/ or games/multiplayer/cards/).
   
   In order to compile you will need
   
     * the Gtk--(>=1.0.2) and Gtk+ libraries,
     * a C++ compiler with template support (egcs, gcc2.8?),
     * Gnu m4,
     * standard unix utilities (sed, cut, ...).
       
   In order to run you need scalable fonts for your X server. This is a
   part of XFree86, but your distribution might not install these by
   default.
   
   The current version of cardwords is 0.0.7 . Versions beginning with
   0.0. are alpha versions. This software is currently in alpha state.
   
   Send comments, bug reports etc to the address below.
   
   cardwords is distributed under the [7]GNU General Public License.
     _________________________________________________________________
   
   
    [8]Tobias Peters
    
   Last modified: Sun Oct 10 22:27:10 CEST 1999

References

   1. http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/~tpeters/cardwords/screenshots/cardwords_gtk.png
   2. http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/~tpeters/cardwords/screenshots/cardwords_gtk.png
   3. http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/~tpeters/cardwords/README.html/index.html
   4. http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/~tpeters/cardwords/source/README.html.tar.gz
   5. http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/~tpeters/cardwords/source/README.ps.gz
   6. http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/~tpeters/cardwords/source/cardwords-0.0.7.tar.gz
   7. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt
   8. mailto:cardwords@crosswinds.net