There are new packages available for Mac OS/X (20110822 Snapshot)

• 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) Intel 64Bit, 10.7.x (Lion) Intel 64Bit, 10.8.x (Mountain Lion)
• 10.5.x (Leopard) Intel 32Bit, 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) Intel 32Bit
  
• 10.4.x (Tiger) PPC, 10.5.x (Leopard) PPC

GNUBG must be installed to the /Applications folder.

If you need support for OS/X please contact Michael Petch at mpetch@capp-sysware.com

Here are some simple instructions to build gnubg straight from source on linux.  The example is using Ubuntu 8.10, but the steps should be similar for any type of linux. [Read more]

There are also new packages for GNU/Linux distributions available including 3d-support and some optimizations:

OpenSuSE: built on OpenSuSE-10.1
RedHat/Fedora: built on RedHat Advanced Server 4

The snapshots have been divided into two branches, a stable "rel_0_15" (rpms are built from these) and a current "MAIN" branch. The "MAIN" branch will be updated daily, the "rel_0_15" from time to time. Please note that "rel_0_15" doesn't contain any new features but only bugfixes.

Both tar.gz balls are available here.

Two versions of GnuBG are currently available:

• current MAIN (CVS tag MAIN, current version 0.90): most recent source code (snapshot 20121023)
  • Installation program (win threads, sse2)
    • The installer will automatically detect if your CPU supports SSE2 and install the appropriate executables.To see if SSE2 exes have been installed, use the "Help/About gnubg" menu, "Build info" button: if "SSE.SSE2 supported" should be listed amongst the features, if your CPU supports it. To manuallly check if your PC supports SSE2, you can download and unzip this archve (TestSSE2) in any directory, then run the executable.
  • Executables only archives:
    • executables only (win threads, sse2)
    • executables only (glib threads, sse2)
    • executables only (no threads, sse2)
    • If your PC does not support SSE2 instruction set, use these:
      • executables only (win threads, nosse)
      • executables only (glib threads, nosse)
      • executables only (no threads, nosse)

• the old 0.15-stable (CVS tag rel_0_15): stable, but outdated. Use only in case of troubles with the most recent version.
  • install archive (code snapshot 20061119)
  • exes only

Sources are available here.

Please reinstall fully if you have an installation older than 20121023, otherwise you can just download the exes and put them in the installation directory (you may want to rename them once unzipped).

Note: in case of problems with older MS Windows versions (i.e. 98, ME), you can try this older gnubg installation archive.

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Here's some instructions that allow you to build the latest version of gnubg on MS Windows. It is mainly aimed at people wanting to develop or test gnubg. [Read more]

Getting started with GNUBG, A guided tour. Zorba (Robert-Jan Veldhuizen) has written a good tutorial for GNU Backgammon at GammonLife. If you need an introduction to GNU Backgammon and how to analyse your games and matches, this introduction is great. Thanks Zorba.

Link to article here!

I've just recieved a email from abuse@gnubg.org. The subject of the email is "Account Alert". This email is not from anyone in the project or from anyone that's in any way connected to the GNU Backgammon project. Please ignore the message and do not click the link. The 'confirmation' link provided in the message is of course false. Do not click the link.

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Hi all,

I'm back from Torino where GnuBG has just won the 2006 Computer Olympics Backgammon "tournament", defeating its only opponent, BGBlitz by Frank Berger. Final score is 3-1 (best of 5 matches, 15pts each), with individual scores of 3-15, 16-12, 15-8 and 17-13.

Analysed matches (supremo, g11 met) can be downloaded here (359Kb).

For the records, BGBlitz is truly strong: it has been rated by gnubg analysis in the 4 matches as 1997.4, 2004.5 2035.1 and 2025.4 (FIBS rating) and in the first two matches, Frank used by mistake the "old" engine (winning one of them anyway).

Some are asking if there is a commandline version available for MS Windows with SSE support. Yes, now there is. Download here. This build has not been tested much, so please report if there's something wrong. I believe it should work with Tony Lezards Dueller.

The Italian site Non Ti Pago has released a web page featuring a download of GNU Backgammon (for Windows) together with a translation to Italian. The page is linked here. If you're only interrested in the translated manual (in PDF), it can be found here.

Thanks alot!