Welcome to the GNU Backgammon web site
Welcome to the GNU Backgammon web site. This site will help you
download and install GNU Backgammon, and give you tips on how to use
GNU Backgammon to improve your game. GNU Backgammon is a world class
backgammon application, and it works on many operating systems. It can
play, analyse and teach backgammon. Its evaluation engine is based on
artificial neural networks. Read more in the about
section.
GNU Backgammon is free software and released under the
GNU General Public License (GPL).
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GNU Backgammon Reaches 1.0 Milestone!
After 15 years GNU Backgammon has reached the 1.0 milestone and moved from a testing stage to official release. Thanks to Gary Wong and his vision to start this project, and everyone who has helped develop, maintain, and contribute through the years. Over time this product has seen its speed improve, and the neural network become stronger.
To mark this milestone GNU Backgammon 1.02.000 (July 28th, 2013) packages are available for the Apple OS/X and MS Windows platforms below. Thanks to our downstream maintainers - GNU Backgammon 1.02 is also available on a variety of the latest GNU/Linux based distributions including Debian, Arch, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Mageai, and Fedora. If you can't find packages for your distribution you can build from the sources available here .
MS Windows:
- Download setup program for MS Windows 2000SP4 or later operating system with approximately 128MB of available RAM.
Apple Mac OS/X 10.5.x (and later) require the latest version of X11/Xquartz to already be installed to run properly. XQuartz can be downloaded from here. Please see the README1ST file inside the DMG for more installation information.
- 10.9.x (Mavericks), 10.8.x (Mountain Lion), 10.7.x (Lion) Intel 64Bit, 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) Intel 64Bit DMG can be downloaded here.
- 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) Intel 32Bit, 10.5.x (Leopard) Intel 32Bit DMG can be downloaded here.
- 10.5.x (Leopard) PPC, 10.4.x (Tiger) PPC DMG can be downloaded here
For source code and other download information please see this
link.
Building gnubg from source on Ubuntu
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.
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Getting the source code of GNU Backgammon
There are two ways to get the source code:
- Download a source (CVS) snapshots, click here
- Connect directly to the CVS repository (cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/gnubg), click here
GNU/Linux packages
There are binary builds of GNU Backgammon for GNU/Linux available, both as RPM packages for SuSE and RedHat. Debian GNU/Linux packages will follow shortly.
All packages are signed by Achim Müller. You can find the PGP public key either
here or at any keyserver.
The packages are built with 3d-support. They are also optimized for i686 computers with sse support:
Gnubg rpms for OpenSuSE-10.1
Gnubg rpms for RedHat Advanced Server 4
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GNU Backgammon for MacOS X
GNU Backgammon (or
gnubg for short) is a Free Software Backgammon playing program, licensed under the GNU Public License (GPL).
GNU Backgammon for MacOS X is a full
binary version of
gnubg, built for MacOS X, and available for download from this website.
This picture illustrates two new features: 3D boards and international support (here, French)
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Downloading and installing GNU Backgammon
You can get GNU Backgammon precompiled binaries for several systems. Thanks to our downstream maintainers - GNU Backgammon is available on a variety of the latest
GNU/Linux based distributions including Debian, Arch, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Mageai, and Fedora. If you can't find packages for your distribution you can build from the sources available through CVS or a tarball.
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