xmball
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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.
