Topic: FreeDoko is a 4 player card game Doppelkopf similar to Skat German and English

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FreeDoko is a 4 player card game Doppelkopf similar to Skat - in German and English

FreeDoko overview

    * description
    * features

description

The game ”Doppelkopf“ is a card game for four or more Players. One game will be played by four players.

Doppelkopf originates probably from the mostly in south germany played game ”Schafkopf“. Its name comes from the double (in German: Doppel) existence of each Card (Doppel-Schafkopf). Meanwhile Doppelkopf is played in whole germany, but mainly in north germany and the region of Rhein and Main.

Doppelkopf is a card game with 48 cards and at least 4 players. It is not unlike the card game ”Skat“. Doppelkopf is played with two normal Skat packs of cards (each has 32 cards) without sevens and eights. Here the players with the club queens are playing together. So there are while playing often new pairs.

Doppelkopf is like Skat a game which depends on the skills of each player. This guarantees a exciting and varied game event.
features

    * free Doppelkopf game for many platforms (a.o. Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, HPUX)
    * many rules (p.e. game without nines, swines, genscher, king-solo)
    * the game is configurable in many aspects, p.e.
          o cards order
          o help for playing (card suggestion, showing the known teams, showin ght etrick points)
          o choice between different cardsets, card backs and background graphics
          o size of cards scalable
    * customizable AI, a.o.
          o fairness
          o number of remembered tricks
          o likeliness for announcement
    * detailed statistic of the games
    * direct contact to the developers

implemented

    * singleplayer against the computer (AI)
    * saving of tournaments

partly finished

    * many rule variants, see rules_overview
    * documentation

planned

    * profil of the players
    * simple configuration interface for the AI
    * multiplayer game (direct connection and an internet portal)
    * sound

FreeDoko 0.7.8 — 13. March 2010

Lizenz

The program FreeDoko is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

The ASS Altenburger Spielkarten can be used with the permission of
ASS Altenburger Spielkarten -
Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg GmbH
a Carta Mundi Company
Internet: www.spielkarten.com



packages
Microsoft Windows

The following packages of FreeDoko do work unter Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7.
They do not work under Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME. In order to use FreeDoko under that system, you have to compile it by yourself (not with the developing package). You can find a guidance in the german documenation directory.

    * Setup (with libraries, ca. 27.7 MB)
      MD5sum: 546e755306d6f00bf8174196a6046a9c
    * package (ca. 22.0 MB)
      MD5sum: 1f3aad7a4279e4a81b6a9e4153fe0d50
    * developing package (ca. 0,5 MB) (Beschreibung)
      MD5sum: 7de9754e9ba036e5d1a4841de6616ec2

GNU/Linux

For specific distributions see below.

    * deb-package (lenny) (ca. 13.6 MB)
      MD5sum: ee2ff447ee4009193c93373fc5e82f3f
    * rpm-package (ca. 13.6 MB)
      MD5sum: 3897d3b7147bf7b998294f6a49491ed0
      For SuSE Linux you have to note the follwing (thanks to Wolfgang Klein for the description and the dummy package): FreeDoko expects the file 'libexpat.so.1', so execute the following as root: ln -s /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1. And for YaSTs dependency problems you can install dummy-libexpat-1.0-0.i586.rpm (1 KB).
    * libraries
          o gtkmm libraries: see http://www.gtkmm.org/.
          o gnet libraries: see http://www.gnetlibrary.org/.


ubuntu

    * You can find a german description for the installation under http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Spiele/FreeDoko.

gentoo

    * emerge freedoko
      You have to activate a cardset useflag, p.e. altenburg.

Thanks to Rafael Kolless.
SuSE

You can get the packages for SuSE from http://packman.links2linux.de/package/FreeDoko.

Thanks to Toni.
Arch Linux

    * Binary Version:
      http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29644
    * Source Version:
      http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15705

Thanks to Michael Straube.
hpux

    * program archive (ca. 15,2 MB)
      MD5sum: 82c14af61017cf1d23fa7eaebe0ab2e1

Thanks to Rainer Dörntge.
FreeBSD

    * pkg_add -r freedoko

Thanks to Thomas Gellekum.
OS X (Intel processor)

    * program archive (ca. 13,8 MB)
      MD5sum: 8a9a6c36d602d28dd66496460c952e18

Thanks to Klaus Kloos.
source

    * source (ca. 8.9 MB)
      MD5sum: 555462b82aa2b29978f7bfc8f896a9e2,
      license: GNU General Public License
    * Compiler
          o Windows: http://www.mingw.org
          o Linux: http://gcc.gnu.org/
    * libraries
          o Gtkmm source code: http://www.gtkmm.org
          o GNet source code: http://www.gnetlibrary.org

additional graphics

    * backgrounds (ca. 1.1 MB)
    * cards and symbols
          o xskat (ca. 1.1 MB)
          o kdecarddecks (ca. 6.5 MB)
          o pysol (ca. 59.5 MB)

Documentation
Manual

    * FreeDoko manual (ca. 6.8 MB)
      MD5sum: cb55414964bfbea7b7a557c8e86064cd

http://free-doko.sourceforge.net/en/files.html